Sunday, June 26, 2016

Climbing wall

I finished the course "Introduction to Health and Wellness", and among others there was an excellent idea about right environment.
The gist of the idea is:  don't build the environment which provoke you to lay down and read, but build such environment which will force you to be active, especially it is important for kids room.
I love this idea a lot, I already have a lot of things like slants and ladders, but it's never too much.
I decided to build a climbing wall. 
I bought this hooks, they are specially designed and made of solid rubber.
I bought few pieces of plywood, and other stuff.
In total it's cheap, less then to have a dinner in restaurant.
With my friend and my boy we made a plan.
The problem which we wanted to solve is how to made this wall adjustable.
We don't want the same way each day, we need it to be easily modifiable.
Because of that we made a lot of holes, and we installed specials nuts inside the holes.

So now we can install hooks in many different ways.
As future shows us, it was very important solution.

Having the opportunity change hooks is important.
Each hook is unique, some of them are easy to grab, some need more energy. 
Combining paths from it is not a trivial task, and we spend a lot of time to adjust them. 
We want the paths be easy for first, and also want to have a way make the paths harder. 

It's important because our sportsmen are becoming more proficient each day, and to have the reasonable hard path is a question of interest for them.
It was hard to install this things on to wall, because children can't wait, they have to climb immediately.



After we finished, the overall height of the climb desk is more than 2.9 meters.
Even I can use it  ;)
As we all know the children are more creative than their parents, and they ask to make a secret room inside the desk.






We made a drawer for toys inside that secret room, and now I am more happy than usual. A lot of toys are kept there without to be on the floor.






A little painting and there it is:

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