Thu, Jan 3, 2008, 6:23am (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@basil.u.arizona.edu (Andrew=A0Barss) doth sayeth: We're constructing a "tent"/"fort" for my son, who wants such a thing around his bed so he can watch movies and read books in a fort. My wife wants it to be easily removable. The tentative plan is to run T-track in a rectangle on the ceiling, then hang cloth panels off the t-track, which can then be retracted.
Well, my first though is, fabrich hanging from a ceiling ain't a fort. My third thought was stack boxes up, or interlocking pieces - wouldn't be hard to come up with something like that - painted fort color. Second thought was lightweit folding screens, painted with fort scenes. Fabric or paper covered, to be light weight. If I was a kid (Hell, in some ways I still am), I'd sooner have blankets strung from chairs as a fort than cloth hung from the ceiling. Ask the kid what he wants, then what would be accaptable, go from there.
Quite awhile back I saw a 'cabin' kids could make, and play in, ala Lincon Logs, except with interlocking plywood pieces. No, I don't recall where I saw it, just on-line somewhere; and no, I'm not going to spend time looking for it; if "I" want a fort, then I'll look; until then you look. The point is, something like that can be put up, or taken down, in just a few minutes, and in different configurations, same same as Lincoln Logs. Trouble with all you guys, you're all too old.
JOAT You can't always judge by appearances, the early bird may have been up all night.