Paint a playhouse: Design your Villa Villekulla

Cute playhouses invite you to be creative in cheerful colours. With Pollutant-free, child-friendly paints you not only protect the wood from weathering. Children love colourful playhouses and can't get enough of playing and romping around. Because a colourful playhouse or stilt house in the garden lures the little ones away from the TV and outside. After all, in a chic playhouse, not even pattering rain disturbs the imaginative role-play or the cozy reading hour.

Why should I paint a playhouse?

Without a protective coating, the untreated wood is the Defenceless against the weather . Moisture allows the natural raw material to swell and makes it susceptible to fungal infestation , and the UV radiation ensures a Weathered, gray surface . This not only leads to a significantly shorter lifespan, but your playhouse is also not very attractive for children. To ensure that the little ones have a lot of fun in the garden, the playhouse should be painted in bright colours.

What colors should be used for painting a playhouse?

Wood is a natural raw material that works. It absorbs moisture and releases it again; it expands and shrinks. Therefore, a paint must not envelop the wood airtight if you want to paint a playhouse. Varnishes are not suitable, they do not allow the wood to breathe and chip off over time. This not only reduces the wood protection, but your children can also hurt themselves on the paint edges. A good color for painting a children's playhouse is characterized by the following properties :

based on natural oils
with natural, heavy metal-free pigments
offers protection against UV radiation, moisture, fungi and insects

Painting a playhouse: Which paint is safe for children due to the ingredients?

If you're planning to paint your playhouse, you naturally want to protect not only the wood, but also your children. Therefore, it is important that the chosen color does not contain any harmful substances. You can tell by the label " DIN EN 71-3" (Saliva Leak Test) . These paints, which are especially suitable for children's toys, are sweat and saliva resistant and do not exceed the limit values for pollutants such as arsenic, lead, cadmium or mercury . However, this does not mean that these paints are completely free of harmful substances.

We recommend our Colour system to paint the playhouse. Because the eight bright colours in child-friendly tones are free of known toxins . The natural pigments are absorbed into the wood surface and the paint does not peel off. Of course, all our colours comply with DIN EN 71-3. How could they not, after all, we only use natural oils and natural pigments.

Painting a playhouse made easy

No matter what you want to paint the playhouse with, with the following instructions the task will be a complete success.

First, think about how you want to paint the playhouse. Let your children have their say , after all, it is to be their own little garden shed and they have to like it. Should it be a cute Swedish house in red and white? Do your children want a small witch's house or do they just like it colorful and fun?
Once the colours have been selected, the playhouse must be prepared for painting. Lightly sand all wooden surfaces so that the opaque wood paint finds a good hold and can be absorbed into the wood. Sweep the children's house with a hand broom to clean the Grinding dust to remove . The substrate must be clean, grease-free, load-bearing and dry.
Now glue all surfaces , which are to be painted in the first colour, with painter's tape . Ideally, paint your children's house before setting it up . In this way, the wood protection also reaches all surfaces that are covered by other parts after installation. If the children's house is already set up, you can of course paint it later and thus protect it from the weather.
Now you start painting the wooden playhouse. Flat brushes are well suited , one is already included in our scope of delivery, in different widths or a small roll for large, flat surfaces. Don't forget to stir the paint well first. By the way, a piece of painter's tape glued across the opening helps to save paint and prevent dripping. There you can find the Brush off lightly .
Remove the masking tape before the paint has dried.
After the paint has dried through, mask the next surfaces to paint the children's house in the next shade. Continue like this until the whole house is finished in all colors.
As a rule, it is sufficient to paint the outside of the children's house . But of course you can also paint the inside of the playhouse.

You want to paint an old children's house?

An old playhouse is no harder to paint than a new one . Here you first remove all dirt and loose layers of paint. Paint that is still firmly adhering may remain on the wood. Then sand the old paint lightly and you can now repaint the house. If the old children's house has not yet been painted and is already heavily weathered, proceed in a similar way. First you have to clean, then you sand down the weathered wood down to the healthy layers. Then you can simply paint the children's house.

A long life for your children's home and lots of fun for the children

In order for a children's house to defy the weather for many years and remain an attractive piece of play equipment for your children, it is important to protect the wood. Pay special attention to the preparation:

Good wood protection paints such as the paint system are highly opaque and free of harmful substances.
Prepare the substrate well before painting and mask the individual color fields well.
Then your children's house is well protected for many years after painting and invites your children to play and dream with cheerful colours.

Discover our playhouses and the colour system now and design the playhouse of their dreams together with your little ones.