Your Very Own Playground Setup

Why stop at just a simple outdoor swing set when you're planning your kids' play area in your backyard? You don't need to restrict yourself to a simple swing set when you could almost create an entire playground behind your house. Check the websites of the major dealers and you'll see that most offer a multitude of swing sets and more. Much more.

Take Play Nation, for example. They deal almost entirely in residential swing sets, some of them almost literally palatial, with multiple wings and passages, slides and climbing walls and all sorts of activities, sometimes taking place on two levels in little forts. But as you peruse Play Nation's website (www.playnation.com), suddenly you come upon their Breckenridge Playhouse, with real doors and windows, a little porch, and a peaked roof with a couple of gabled windows. Swing sets and more, indeed!

Another company that offers you a chance to create your own personal playground is Rainbow Play Systems (www.rainbowplay.com). Rather than selling additional separate structures like club houses, Rainbow really goes to town on the kids swing set accessories instead. You can add passageways to the basic swing set frame, with mounted bubble walls or bay windows. Kids can peer through the periscope, play in the added sandbox, or exercise on a chin-up bar. Rainbow sets are swing sets and more, allowing you to make your playground as simple or elaborate as you desire.

Of course, the ultimate website for exploring the world beyond simple swing sets may actually be Swing Sets and More (www.swingsetsandmore.com), where the products of many different companies are brought together in one place. Here again you'll find a multitude of play houses, from very simple one-room huts to an elaborate two-story Victorian mansion. Click on a new page and there are trampolines, while still another web page brings you to pool slides and water teeter totters. And of course the main attraction remains the vast array of outdoor swing sets. When you go looking for a swing set to put in the yard for your kids, with everything that's available you could just find yourself setting up an elaborate playground not just for your own kids, but for the entire neighborhood.

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