Garage for toy cars

This is a toy car garage made from bits of plywood.

The base : about 1.5 x1 foot plywood, 12 mm thick. Although I used very good waterproof plywood, in retrospect I think I could have used some cheaper wood. 

Wooden toy garage 

The first floor : Made from teak wood veneer. This turned out to be too thin and needed a pillar to support it.

Beading : made from thin strips of 12 mm plywood. This is to prevent the cars from falling out.

The lift magnet: As this was too big to fix permanently on the structure, I decided to make it removable. A small door magnet was attached to the main structure with the piece of metal on the lift. The lift can then be detached for storage.

Wooden toy garage: Lift is attached with the help of a door magnet

The lift : Both the lift cabin as well as the lift tunnel are made from 6 mm plywood. The entrances to the levels are cut with a scroll saw. To prevent the lift cabin from falling out a small piece of curved teak beading was used. A pulley system on top pulls the lift cabin using a small metal chain. The cars kept rolling off the lift cabin. To prevent this I had to drill many holes at the bottom of the lift cabin to catch the wheels of the car.

Wooden toy garage: Lift 

Painting the lift: As this was plywood, the first coat was white primer. This was followed by different colored enamel paints. Most of the light blue was a matte finish that I really liked. Applying the primer was a family affair.

Wooden toy garage: Applying primer

Wooden toy garage: Applying primer

The final product: The lift has been in use and been painted and modified for over a year now. Though this piece evolved over time and is really not square anywhere, and is made from three different types of plywood, it is quite enjoyed by the kids and is one of the toys they keep playing with over and over again. The house (looks like a kennel) could have been better designed!

Wooden toy garage, in use