The past few days have been a blur of comings and goings, assemblies and disassemblies, and lots and lots of photos. This is all taking place in my home, so the entire event is playing out in a most up close and personal way. More than 30 kids have paraded through thus far; four rooms have been completely emptied of their normal clutter and staged for the photos; and I apparently missed the micro-tornado that visited every other room, hallway, and closet in our house. The massive cleanup hangover coming our way is going to be painful indeed, but if the pictures thus far are any indication, the party will have been well worth it.

As for the Rhapsody playsets themselves, they continue to impress not only our visitors, but even those of us on the design team. Today’s surprise was the only playset we plan to photo with all natural toned (vs. colored) accent pieces. When we photographed our Serendipity line of outdoor swing sets a few years back, I insisted that we show several “natural” swing sets and include them in the catalogue. The sales of these “natural” swing sets, as well as the photos themselves, have been lackluster at best. Yet, lackluster is hardly the word I would use to describe our “natural” Rhapsody set. Rather, it looks like a joyful combination of fine furniture and wooden sculpture that just begs to be played on. And, given all the brightly colored kids stuff that already populates most homes, I suspect that many families will be relieved to introduce this oasis of color tranquility. Here are a few more shots from Days 1-3.

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