Playhouses for ’93 Benefit on Display

Been thinking about a children’s playhouse for the back yard? Here’s your chance to make a big hit with the kids.

How about bringing home a miniature castle? A Cape Cod cottage? A Victorian train station? Or maybe Minnie Mouse’s Toontown House?

Those are just some of the fanciful creations up for auction in Project Playhouse ‘93, a charity event sponsored by HomeAid, the Orange County building industry’s nonprofit program that builds shelters for the transitionally homeless.

Project Playhouse is part of HomeAid’s Homeless Awareness Week, which also includes Run for Cover, a 10K/5K run on Sunday, Nov. 7.

Nine playhouses, designed by architects and built by Southland home builders, will be sold to the highest bidders at a public auction Saturday, Nov. 13, near the Hard Rock Cafe at the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach. The playhouses are on display now at Fashion Island.

The Project Playhouse ’93 builders and their creations are Greystone Homes (castle), Brock Homes (Victorian house), California Pacific Homes (Victorian train station), the Centerstone Co. (Cape Cod cottage), William Lyon Co. (storybook cottage), Presley of Southern California and Disneyland (Minnie Mouse’s Toontown House), the San Juan Group (train engine), Shea Homes (beach shack) and Fieldstone Communities (Hard Rock Cafe).

At last year’s auction, the nine playhouses sold for prices ranging from $2,000 to $18,000, helping to raise a total of $85,000 to help the homeless.

For information on the playhouses, call (800) 414-SALE.