Playing House

This "pigeonnier" in Houston, Texas is used as a playhouse by the owner's grandchildren. ("Pigeonnier" is French for "dovecote".)

Architect: Ken Tate, Ken Tate Architecture.

Landscape architect: Helen Grivich.

Builder: R.B. Ratcliff & Associates.

Photography by John Granen.

Traditional Home.

Playhouse belonging to the four children of India Hicks and David Flint Wood.

Designed by David Flint Wood and painted the colors of the Union Jack.

Hibiscus Hill in the Bahamas.

Landscape design by India Hicks and David Flint Wood.

Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna.

Veranda (May - June 2011).

Mount Vernon playhouse created by Susie Hilfiger for Tomes Higgins Designer Showhouse.

Architect: Allan Greenberg.

Photography by Paul Whicheloe.

House Beautiful (March 2000).

Mount Vernon playhouse created by Susie Hilfiger for Tomes Higgins Designer Showhouse.

Architect: Allan Greenberg.

Photography by Paul Whicheloe.

House Beautiful (March 2000).

 Dan Burnham's $248,000 playhouse near Santa Barbara, California.

Built by artist and treehouse builder Barbara Butler of San Francisco.

Photography by Kevin Scanlon for the New York Times.

Published in the New York Times (July 20, 2011).

 Playhouse at the Southampton home of Rita Norona Schrager.

Interior design by Hernan Arriaga.

Photography by William Waldron.

Elle Decor (June 2009).