Gnash's Clubhouse

Gnash's Clubhouse is one of our most exciting projects to date!  We were contacted last summer by High Hopes for Kids, an inclusive preschool and pediatric therapy clinic, about building several structures for the new facility that they were building.  The first one was an indoor structure for their sensory gym, which Joshua finished installing yesterday!  This structure was sponsored by the Nashville Predators (NHL Hockey Team).  TODAY is High Hopes' open house, and dedication of the Clubhouse by "Gnash", the mascot for the Nashville Predators!

This is the concept Joshua designed for them several months ago...

 And here are some of the pictures of it after it came to life and was installed in it's new home...

Gnash's Clubhouse

Here you can see The Bucket Pulley System... 

And a really fun Ball Pipes feature that Joshua dreamed up and added to play with the ball pit...

Other fun details...

 There are genuine Nashville Predators hockey sticks attached to the set...

Here are a couple more pictures of Gnash at the Open House...

 Click HERE to read the story from the official Nashville Predators website!

The PINK Dollhouse Playset

It's been incredibly busy in our shop for several months now, but this is the very first thing we've installed this year!

The Pink Dollhouse!!!

The Dollhouse Playset

This gorgeous set is the second one of its kind that we've built in less than a year's time.  The details on this one are undeniably girly (even tho it could easily be converted to a more boyish or gender neutral clubhouse look).

Take a peek inside...

They ordered The Complete Fun Package and that lovely white Dollhouse Bookshelf is actually a door to a Secret Passage!

Looks like the new homeowners are having fun in here!

The second story overlooks the downstairs area inside...

What a kick-off to a great year of playhouses, am I right?!  So much sweetness!

Next install begins TOMORROW NIGHT!

Launching Imagine THAT!

We officially launched Imagine THAT! Playhouses & More... at the Chattanooga Home Show in February 2010.  It was a rather humble starting point, with a "bare bones" booth and a website filled with pictures exclusively from the home show.  But it was a start!  :)

Fortunately, having something that large and bright towering over most of the surrounding displays did get us a lot of attention.  Most people didn't care about our lack of staging.

The kids were really amazed to see Daddy's Playhouse in some large public place.  They had fun actually playing in it, since they hadn't really had a chance to when he was building it.

We thought it was pretty exciting to receive the Best New Exhibitor Award!

And get a picture in the paper.

Things have come a LONG WAY since then!

The Columbia Children's Museum

AMuse'um is a cute little children's museum tucked away in Columbia, Tennessee.  We were really excited and honored when they asked us to build several whimsical structures for their facility!  We sketched several ideas, and these were the ones finally decided upon!

These building are a city façade and include a Doctor's Office, Veterinary Hospital, and Children's Hospital.

There is also a barn playhouse...

It was so much fun to see them come to life!



The Barn Playhouse

Joshua also built all that cute fencing and some nest boxes for the chickens inside the barn!

Several months later they requested the addition of an open courthouse playhouse resembling the city courthouse in Columbia.

The side and back of the courthouse are a bank with walk-up and drive-through teller windows.





"Thank you to all the folks at Imagine THAT! for all of your imagination and dedication! We couldn't be happier with the result!  Photos just can't show how amazing this structure looks in person! Another wonderful creation - many thanks!"

~April Van Grippo, aMuse'um, The Columbia Children's Museum



Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

These clubhouses are really amazing things to see!  The first one Joshua built resided in our own backyard for some time, and I have to admit that I spent several minutes every day just looking out the window at it in amazement.  He and I also spent a fair amount of time sitting up in it ourselves and playing with the kids on it.  So we were really excited to get an order for a girly version of it!

The Sweet Extreme Clubhouse

The colors are soft and sweet, and it has so many features for activity and creativity for little girls.  The Sweet Extreme Clubhouse is a two story playhouse.  The bottom can be a Toy Garage, as shown here, or a regular playhouse.

 

 

It has Flower Boxes...

 

 

Two side platforms - one with a slide and one with a ladder and Rock Climbing Wall...

And an Attached Swing Beam...

While The Sweet Extreme Clubhouse is amazing all by itself, this order also included The Complete Fun Package!  (Some options have changed a bit since this was built.)

 

 

 

It seriously does not get much cuter than this!  Unless you're looking at the happy little first-time home owners! 

 

 

 

"Imagine THAT! has far exceeded our expectations! We asked for a girly version of the Extreme Clubhouse with the Toy Garage. WOW, did they ever deliver! This playhouse has it ALL, flower boxes, chalkboard walls, magnetic walls, table, shelves, mailbox...we are in for some summer fun!! We are so thankful we chose Imagine THAT! Playhouses & More...!"

 

~Anna