Let's play outside

This is the best frugal find ever! There is a little boy at the school where my mother in law works who is very kind and generous indeed. He had outgrown his play house so GAVE IT to us because he 'just wanted other children to play with it'. Aww.

The log cabin's current RRP is £379. And we were given it. For free.

We did have to pay a man with a van £50 to bring it to our house as it wouldn't fit in anyone's car though. Also because the red is faded, I bought a tin of plastic spray paint for £8.99 so it now looks like this:

I had paint left so sprayed 2 little chairs we were also given to match.

The table is an old Lack from Ikea which I painted with blackboard paint (given a leftover tin by a friend) and bought a piece of oilcloth for £5 off eBay so it is wipe clean for messy play. I stuck some velcro dots (99p for 10, free delivery from eBay) to the table and the cloth so that little bear can't just whip the tablecloth off.

Lovely.