When home is a cinema, gym and playground all in one

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If you have enough space, you can cook in your outdoor kitchen in summer.
Image: Paulina Eichhorn

My home is my castle – that was the day before yesterday. Today, the home is not just a castle, but also a swimming pool, café, playground, cinema, restaurant and gym. Unless there is a lack of space and money. Who actually wants to go out there?

Outdoor kitchen: Fizz in style under the trees

Whe has, he will be given – for example an outdoor kitchen. It’s not for the small balcony or the towel garden in front of the terraced house, you can take your makeup off. For such an open-air cooking area, you need more space. At least one spacious roof terrace, better still a large garden, so that you can really set the scene. Ideally with a roof. After all, being outdoors doesn’t necessarily mean being at the mercy of wind and weather without protection. Since outdoor kitchens have been trending, the range has grown rapidly. The mobile stove for outdoors has long been available in hardware stores (e.g. the Kansas Pro 4 SIK Turbo module for around 1000 euros at Toom). Ikea, with its claim to democratize living, offers a grill-sink-base cabinet combination called Grillskär for 869 euros. In kitchens, whether inside or outside, there is always room for improvement. If you want to invest more, hire a garden designer with the appropriate expertise, look for a high-quality module provider such as Flammkraft, Monolith or perhaps the Red Dot Design winner Openair Kitchen and create your own individual outdoor kitchen with all the chicanery and at prices that are clearly in five figures. There’s pure luxury for that. You don’t have to go to the beer garden anymore.


With a tree house, the home garden becomes a colorful adventure playground.
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Image: Paulina Eichhorn

Playground: cable car deluxe

Birgit Ochs

Responsible editor for “Housing” of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

Judith Lembke

Editor in the “Housing” department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

Anyone who is out and about in public playgrounds knows this: poorly maintained seesaws, sandpits full of cat droppings, broken glass in the wooden house. Not only since playgrounds were closed during the first Corona lockdown did the home garden become a colorful adventure playground – at least for those who call a house with a plot of land their own. Sandpit, swing and slide are part of the minimum equipment. Today the little ones are upgraded in a completely different way: some put a playhouse (e.g. from Smoby or Kidkraft) with a terrace, a giant trampoline with a bungee cord (JumpXFun) or even a whole bouncy castle (Costway or Intex) on the lawn, others put one down Parcours on which the children do their laps in the electric car. From the tree house (tree baron or tree room) in the treetops, the little Tarzans swing from branch to branch with cable cars (Joda, Cable-Ride). Multi-game devices in the knight’s castle or pirate ship look are in vogue. Wickey’s Dancing Dragon climbing frame, for example, offers a wobbly bridge, wave slide with water connection, bouldering wall and climbing net for 3850 euros. That tops almost every playground.

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