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Home, Sweet Home.(The Good Life; Children)(playhouses)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)

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Byline: Jenna Crombie

It's never too early to start cultivating a luxury property owner. Children now have a growing range of dream-home options, conveniently located in Mom and Dad's backyard. The latest crop of kids' playhouses combine fairy-tale designs with real, modern-day facilities like running water and beds, and maybe even a guest room for jealous adults.

Lilliput Play Homes makes enough different structures to populate a town: houses, a cinema, a town hall and a schoolhouse, all crafted from quality materials and colorfully painted; the Cotton Candy Manor features an upstairs balcony and starts at $8,999 ...

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