Step2 Charming Cottage Kids Playhouse

Step 2 always great quality, easy to assemble and kids love it!

So well made and easy to put together. Very durable! Have it on a preschool playground and the kids love it! Love the open windows and height. Easy to see kids when they are in it. Perfect for playgrounds!

This is a great playhouse because four kids of different ages can easily play with it and it is durable. Kids love the real doorbell and we love that it isn’t too loud and sounds so nice. The house is open enough that you can keep an eye on the kids and some kids can play from the outside looking in, but it’s closed enough that the kids feel like they are in their own space.It took about 1.5 hours to put it together because we had to run to a hardware store to find screws similar to ones that were missing. The final steps to attach the roof to the walls were the trickiest — needed to drill a small pilot hole for each corner to be able to line up the pieces. (Actually we had to do that for most parts/screws.) When attaching the roof, we needed someone inside and outside to force each corner to line up and make it work.

Update: We purchased this in August 2019. I’m updating April 2022. The stickers on the fireplace and above the door are finally peeling but still there. We’ve sprayed it inside and out with the house many times. The plastic does not appear to be faded at all yet. Everything else is like new after more than 2 years of play and only outside use. We did move it under the deck during the winter. We have never had a bee/wasp issue with this house. My now 8, 6, and 4 year old still love and use it often! I truly have no complaints.Original: We have had this playhouse outside for one Pittsburgh summer and half of the fall now. It has held up well to my 4 children and their friends during playdates. It was easy to build even with just one person and I can even move it on my own fairly easily. I love that you can remove the window boxes to dump/clean them. I wish you could do the same with the sink. I have hosed the whole thing, inside and out, a few times and have had no trouble with the stickers so far but I have tried to be careful of them. I love how open it is. I can see my children playing in it from any angle. I have seen as many as 5 children inside at once and would say it easily fits 3 comfortably. Mine usually have a stroller in there with them. We did accidentally install the wall with the sink/benches backwards so that the benches are inside the house but my kids prefer it that way and put up a huge fight when I tried to fix it. So, keep in mind that you CAN install it with the benches inside the house for extra seating. The details are cute and, best part, NO staining necessary and NO wasps!! I'm NEVER getting a cedar playhouse again!

Love that this is tall enough for my 4yr old and big enough for my 4yr old and 2yr old to easily be in it together and with a friend or 2. Easy to assemble and super sturdy plastic. These things are beasts, made it last with just a hose off.