"Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when I was six and my biggest problem was what kind of dress to put on Barbie or whether or not I had enough Legos to build a fort" –Unknown
You remember being a kid, right? The minute dawn breaks, it's off to the backyard where the playhouse or tree house was awaiting your new adventures. Nothing was better.
Well, there is a non-profit organization in California that is taking the idea of playhouses and forts just one step further—a whole lot further actually. It is called the Dreams Happen Event and it supports the Rebuilding Together Peninsula Organization in Palo Alto, California.
This organization has been asking for donations of time and materials from construction companies, architects and other individuals. The goal is to conceptualize a playhouse idea, draw up plans and then build beautiful, durable playhouses that kids actually use. The playhouses are auctioned off with proceeds going towards the Rebuilding Together Peninsula efforts.
Remember, these are groups of highly respected and professional builders and architects who come together to create magnificent playhouses, and their creations are auctioned off at prices ranging from $13,000 to $71,000. Yes your eyes are not failing you; Seventy-one—Thousand—Dollars. ~gulp~
This year our friends at Chesler Construction built a smaller version of the impressive AT&T Park which is the home to the San Francisco Giants. Schoollockers.com was approached to donate actual, usable lockers for this project and we gladly donated lockers so that this smaller version of AT&T Park would be perfect, right down to the lockers! Yes, these are bright "San Francisco Giant orange" kids lockers, direct from our impressive line.
Since 1993, the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California has co-sponsored and produced the biennial Dreams Happen event benefiting Rebuilding Together Peninsula. Things sure have come a long, long way since the days of rusty nails, duct tape and old plywood from the neighbor's chicken coop now, haven't they?