I asked the twins what 1 thing they wanted most for the
treehouse. Nadia: “I want a swing.” Kai: “I want a trapdoor.” Ok, I can do
that. The swing we already had somewhere else so I just moved it to the
treehouse… it gets pretty regular use, especially when Nadia’s friends come by.
The important thing is to keep the area from getting too cluttered with nails,
screws, tools, scrap wood, whatever else is lying around. It’s a good excuse to
remember to clean up at the end of a work day. The trapdoor, well, that’s been
on the backburner so far. The blocking is there, the location set, but I
haven’t constructed it yet – it’s kind of nice to have a hole in the floor. All
kinds of leaves, sticks, pine cones, rain water accumulate on the floor and
having a hole means sweeping all that debris away easily. If I can get the
house sealed up from elements, I’m thinking of putting down some light engineered
wood flooring, and that will allow for a trapdoor recessed handle which is
needed to pull the door up. In any case, the door itself hasn’t been a priority
yet, so I just work around the hole in the floor… no one has fallen
through yet ;) keeps the kids on their toes when going up there.
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