Dallas Manker
Project 02 — Playhouse · Fabrication · 2026

Rynlee’s
House

Type
Playhouse — custom loft bed
Year
2026
Built by
Dallas Manker — every cut, every screw
Status
Complete
Front of the finished playhouse at night — gray cladding, white trim, black door with ribbon pull, two sconces lit
Fig. 01Finished front elevation — sconces lit, black door, white trim.
01 — The idea

Rynlee’s House was not built because building one was easier than buying one. It was built because buying one would have been easier.

A father wanted to build his daughter something exceptional and permanent, so he decided to build what he could not find: a room within a room — miniature architecture with real structure, real trim, and a front door.

The starting point was an ordinary bedroom corner — a mattress on the floor, a dresser against the wall.

Bedroom corner before construction — mattress on the floor, dresser against the wall
Fig. 02Before — a mattress on the floor and an empty corner.
02 — Structure

Framed like a small building, not assembled like furniture — posts and knee braces carrying the loft deck. Lumber was culled hard: warped or twisted boards were rejected before they ever made it into the frame.

Loft frame during construction — posts and knee braces carrying the deck, mattress test-fit on top, dresser fitted beneath
Fig. 03Frame standing — knee braces in, deck set, dresser fitted beneath.
03 — Taking shape

Gray cladding over the frame, white trim fitted by hand around every opening. The lower interior was paneled. The stairs were treated as a finish-carpentry problem, not an afterthought — geometry solved, transitions cleaned up.

The door went out of square during the build. It was taken apart and corrected rather than shimmed and hidden.

04 — Details

Lighting throughout the house runs on one control, with smart-home integration planned. Sconces flank the front door like a real entry. The dresser was measured into the plan — fitted beneath the loft, not placed under it.

Close-up of the playhouse front door — black finish, metal pull with a ribbon, personalized doormat at the threshold
Fig. 04Front door detail — black door, ribbon pull, personalized mat.
Three-quarter view of the finished playhouse — lit entry, staircase, storage fitted beneath the loft
Fig. 05Finished — entry, stairs, and storage below.

Gray cladding, white trim, black door, sconces, stairs, and a mat with a name on it. A house — small, permanent, and built to be remembered.

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