Would love to see this maybe with a house top, or barn top instead of rounded, just to be easier! Maybe smaller too for a reading nook, my son likes to "read" & forts, this would be perfect for both. Thanks!
Here's the fast way to make that. Take two short bookcases - as shown - place them back to back the desired distance apart. Connect them at the front and back of the fort with a 1x2 strip at floor level.
Bend 1/2 inch schedule 40 PVC pipes (the floppiest stuff you can buy) into an arch and screw them to the sides of the bookcases with "pipe hangers". You will need to have two hangers per pipe to keep them stable ... just make two upside-down U shapes between the bookcases. Toss fabric over it (pink, glittery, camo, or whatever), toss some pillows in it, and it's done.
Or you can make a tent-style top by using a PVC 90-degree connection at the peak and 45-degree connectors on the sides, then use the hangers to hold the pipe to the bookcases.
When the reading in a fort stage is over, take off the connecting boards and you have regular bookcases with only a few screw holes in them to fix.
Tsu Dho Nimh
Tue, 01/11/2011 - 12:44
That arch would be a real PITA to make.
Here's the fast way to make that. Take two short bookcases - as shown - place them back to back the desired distance apart. Connect them at the front and back of the fort with a 1x2 strip at floor level.
Bend 1/2 inch schedule 40 PVC pipes (the floppiest stuff you can buy) into an arch and screw them to the sides of the bookcases with "pipe hangers". You will need to have two hangers per pipe to keep them stable ... just make two upside-down U shapes between the bookcases. Toss fabric over it (pink, glittery, camo, or whatever), toss some pillows in it, and it's done.
Or you can make a tent-style top by using a PVC 90-degree connection at the peak and 45-degree connectors on the sides, then use the hangers to hold the pipe to the bookcases.
When the reading in a fort stage is over, take off the connecting boards and you have regular bookcases with only a few screw holes in them to fix.