Built for the lucky two- to five-year-olds that attend The Orinda Preschool, the TOPS treehouse is a secure way for very young children to experience the highest limbs of a tree. In operation since 1938, The Orinda Preschool’s play-based curriculum offers the children copious amounts of self-directed exploration, and what better…
Saturday’s Magical Bridge Grand Opening was everything we could have hoped for: sunny skies, musical acts, happy families and most importantly, children of all abilities playing together! Our stage served as a focal point for the entertainment as the audience gathered beneath a large, majestic tree. Above the stage in the…
The countdown to this weekend’s Magical Bridge Grand Opening is on! On April 18, the community will gather for a celebration of children of all abilities as the playground officially opens to the public. In anticipation, several groups came through last week for sneak previews of the new playground and…
We’ve been part of the Magical Bridge project for the last five years and we’re thrilled that it’s now in the final stages of construction! Join us on April 18 for the Grand Opening of this fun, inclusive, and gorgeous playground. Here, the two-story playhouse and theater is getting some…
Read MoreLooking as fresh as a new box of crayons, these colorful posts are lined up in our studio ready to be installed on Ava’s Bridge in the Magical Bridge Playground. Located in Palo Alto, California, and tentatively slated to open to the public on March 21, 2015, the Magical Bridge…
Read MoreWe couldn’t fit all the love into one post, so here’s one more on hearts. They’re whimsical, playful and welcoming, just like Barbara. Barbara gives a classic log cabin her own flair with heart shutters and a pirate flag. Valentine’s Fort complete with a pink tower, swings and rope climbing…
Read MoreThough we love getting kids up into the foliage in a treehouse, we honor all kinds of playfulness, including the dramatic kind. Our colorful outdoor stages inspire young thespians, magicians-to-be or clowns in training. And since they’re built with the same sustainable redwood and natural tung oil stains as our…
Read MoreChildren of all abilities will soon have a chance to play in the country’s first fully accessible playground, Palo Alto’s Magical Bridge. To celebrate, we hosted a Studio Tour for the team where we displayed the second story of the playhouse and the stage.
When Olenka Villareal discovered that her daughter was having developmental challenges, she was dismayed with the state of their local Palo Alto, CA, parks. Though well-meaning, the playgrounds weren’t truly accessible to her daughter. And so began her crusade to create Magical Bridge, a playground for all abilities. We are…
Read MoreDay 5 on site at the Contra Costa Jewish Day School and great progress! The Tube Slide has been installed and the rubber resilient surface material (RSM) has been poured by Playgrounds Unlimited.Here, Sean from playgrounds Unlimited, checks to make sure that the RSM is 2-1/2″ thick, the required thickness…
Big Day on site: the crawl tunnel tube is added in between Clubhouse #1 and Clubhouse #2! They will keep it wrapped in plastic sheeting until everything else on site is done, but this fun play element is in place and just waiting for kids to crawl through it. Next…
Read MoreDay 2 the crew continues with the installation of Contra Costa Jewish Day School’s play structure:
Now that the ledgers have been installed (see Day 1) the guys bring in the clubhouse floor framing, bolting the frames to the ledgers…
Barbara and crew are back on site at the Contra Costa Jewish Day School playground where they are installing a public use, fully enclosed, ADA Handicap Accessible play structure custom designed to run above the playground on top of existing 8′ high concrete pla…
Read MoreThe day before we arrive, the school yard sits empty, waiting for the magic to begin…
New, exciting, public use play structure that Barbara custom-designed for the Contra Costa Jewish Day School in Lafayette, CA. It will be a fully enclosed, self-contained redwood & rope netting play structure built up on top of 8′ high concrete planter boxes and running along the edge of the play space…
Read MoreWe just got back from installing a public use play structure for an Affordable Housing Complex in Glendale, California. It was a new design , so it had to go through all the ASTM, CPSC and ADA certifications which it passed beautifully…
