Owning a beautiful garden in your home represents an extraordinary opportunity for many reasons: it can be used as a green corner of the house where you can relax perhaps during the warm summer evenings or as an area in which to organize parties or parties with friends and relatives or, Still, as a game space for the fun of their children, with suitable equipment and structures. In the latter case, you have to know how to choose well, in various respects, what is installed in the garden.

One of the elements that should never be missing in this "home playground" are the garden houses for children. A structure that can be of different material and dimensions, as we will see better later. However, how can you choose a child's house to be included in your garden? What are the characteristics to pay attention before making the purchase? We try to answer these questions, dissipating various doubts that could arise.

The age of children and the space available

A first aspect to consider naturally concerns the age of children. In fact, the houses and related games or the components present inside them vary according to this. There are structures for children from 1 to 4 years or from 3 up to 8 or 12 years. There are models with different components based on the level of development and movement of movement or motor skills of each child. The greater the age of the latter and the more varied and structured the garden house will be, in order to develop its imagination in the game.

Another fundamental element that you have to keep in mind is the available space, where the children's house will be inserted. In fact, there are several models also based on this space. Of course, if you have a large garden, you can buy a house with outdoor games, such as ropes or slides, and more floors. Otherwise, if you have a simple patio, before buying the house, you have to consider the availability of space around this, for the movement of children and their safety.

Speaking of this last aspect, you avoid putting this structure for children near lampposts or poles of light, railings, railings and other elements that may be dangerous or in any case put the safety of children at risk. Also from this point of view it is important that there is, possibly a large space near the house in order to make children move freely or without dangers.

Employed materials and spaces

It is important then to be the material with which these structures for children are made. There are fabric houses, which also occupy little space and therefore are suitable for those small gardens, they can also be easily removed. The wooden houses, on the other hand, occupy more space and therefore can only be inserted in much larger green areas, also highlight a certain solidity and greater components for the fun of the little ones.

The latter, however, integrate well with a landscape garden. However, wood can be vulnerable to moss and lichens and therefore present a very limited duration, if not periodically treated. However, there are houses made with treated wooden material and that offers greater protection than others. For rare unused wooden houses, however, the application is enough every two years of a product for the maintenance of this material.

Plastic children's houses are also widespread. These are colored, of various types (from the castle to the farm) and dimensions, with different components. In terms of solidity, this kind of structures is less strong than the wooden ones, however they are easier to assemble. For cleaning, the periodic use of a high pressure pressure washer is required. In addition, as well as the wooden one, the plastic house must also be covered with a sheet to protect it from the weather in the winter months.

What characteristics must be taken into consideration

An important first element is the safety of the structure and children, consequently the materials must be solid, do not endanger the children who play, and made with adequate products. Another fundamental aspect is represented by the ease of assembly or installation of the structure, which must also offer a certain replacement of the air, through an adequate entrance and large windows, and not allow excessive raising of the temperatures inside.

The construction material is also an important factor, as we have already said. Wood offers greater solidity and aesthetic beauty, but it is also the one that requires constant maintenance and care over time. Plastic and fabric, on the other hand, are simpler to install and require less maintenance, however they are less solid than the wood. An aspect of which to take into account is also the price of these structures, which tend to vary even much, based on the construction material.

The prices of the houses 

For those who opt for wooden houses for garden children, the cost could go up to 400 euros, while the curtain models are below 100 euros. Instead of these two figures, plastic models can instead be found. Of course, considering security the main factor to take into account for these houses, the cost should be adequate for this aspect. 

In other words, it is better to buy a more expensive model that has high safety standards for children instead of saving the price, but jeopardizing the safety of the little ones. In general, however, most models offer good overall safety. We must be wary of those products that do not present a CE brand or whose origin is not clearly identifiable or easily identifiable.

Once you take into account these aspects and evaluated carefully and accurately, you can move on to the purchase of the house. In this case, it would be better to buy in a specialized shop and after having directly viewed the model, avoiding instead of buying a product online that must be used by their children and which requires an adequate level of safety, not verifiable through the internet.