As some of you may know I crowdsourced to find out if families that installed an indoor play gym/climbing wall actually found that their kids used it and it was worth the spend. My rough assessment of your generous feedback was that climbing walls were under-used unless they were quite tall or the holds could be changed up regularly. Swedish ladders seemed to be used regularly and any type of hanging swing or rings were used a lot.

The choice of what to install is so dependant on your unique space. A wood beam is the most helpful to attach a swing or rings too. Or alternatively an open doorway with room to swing. All of these options weren’t available to us. We were worried about drilling into the ceiling in the kids room so. a wall mounted gym is were we landed.

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