Playhouse Guides & Advice

The Buttercup range is a range of wooden playhouses from TP Toys. This article gives a full review of the range, all of its play benefits and how it can give your children endless playtime over the years.

For families with children aged 3-7, climbing frames and playhouses are the two most considered large garden purchases. Both serve a long ownership window, both provide genuine developmental value, and both represent a meaningful investment. The decision between them is one of the most common questions parents of young children face, and this article aims to help you decide.

The TP Treehouse Play Tower is the UKs best-selling playhouse and this articles explains all of the great features of this modular range. It goes into detail about the quality of the FSC certified wood along with the play features that will keep your children playing for year after year.

TP Toys produces one of the widest ranges of garden playhouses available from a single UK manufacturer — spanning compact single-storey plastic models, entry-level wooden towers, and premium two-storey timber structures with integrated slides, climbing features and sandpits. This 2026 guide reviews every major playhouse in the TP range, with specific comparisons between the most popular models.

This guide covers every way a garden playhouse and outdoor kitchen can be combined in the TP Toys range: standalone side-by-side structures, wall-mounted kitchen accessories that attach directly to the playhouse exterior, plastic playhouses with built-in kitchen features, and the modular tower playhouse configurations that incorporate cooking play as one of several activity zones.

This guide covers the most suitable TP Toys playhouse models for small UK gardens, the dimensions to check before purchasing, and the features that make some playhouses significantly more space-efficient than others.

 This guide covers everything UK parents need to know about maintaining a wooden playhouse, from first-time treatment before assembly through to annual maintenance, cleaning, and specific weather protection.

Playhouses and climbing frames are two of the most popular pieces of garden play equipment for UK families and two of the most frequently compared when parents are choosing between them. They are not interchangeable. They develop different capacities, suit different ages and play styles, and create fundamentally different outdoor environments. The right choice depends on your child's age, how they prefer to play, what developmental outcomes you want to support, and what your garden can accommodate.

The TP Toys playhouse range is one of the most extensive in the UK, covering single-storey wooden Wendy houses, two-storey loft houses with internal ladders, elevated platform tower playhouses with slides and sandpits, a modular best-selling treehouse system with interchangeable accessories, and plastic playhouses for families who want something quicker to assemble and easier to maintain. This guide covers every model in the current TP playhouse range, what type of playhouse it is, what it includes, and which children and gardens it is right for.