Children{40 s play garage with self-contained storage compartment

Claim 1

A combination playhouse and toybox structure comprising a horizontally elongated structural unit, a pair of enclosureforming vertically oriented side members, a roof member and end gables, said structural unit constituting a toybox and incorporating spaced vertically extending sides and a full length bottom extending between and interconnecting said sides to define a rigid unit of generally channel shaped upwardly opening configuration with opposed ends, said unit having a length to width ratio of from 1:1 to 10:1, said enclosure forming side members being affixed to and closing the opposed ends of the structural unit and being rigidly interconnected thereby in upright spaced parallel relation to each other, said side members extending laterally of said structural unit and terminating remote from said structural unit, said roof member being supported by said side members and end gables, said side members being free of obstructing structural elements laterally of said structural unit to a height equal to the bottom of said end gables and defining an enlarged interior freely accessible from the end remote from the structural unit, wherein said side members, laterally of said structural unit, extend vertically upward to a height above the structural unit, said side members at the opposed ends of the structural unit being of a substantially lesser height, the interior defined between said side members laterally of the structural unit being accessible over said structural unit.