Play yard: a 50 × 40 ft yard plan

50 × 40 ft. A round mulch play area with a playset and sandbox, a trampoline on the lawn, and a patio for the grown-ups.

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Play yard, drawn to scale: 50 × 40 ft. A round mulch play area with a playset and sandbox, a trampoline on the lawn, and a patio for the grown-ups.
50 × 40 ft, 2,000 sq ft. Drawn in the planner and exported as it is.

A back yard laid out for children who are going to fall off things. The playset and the sandbox sit in a twenty-two foot circle of mulch, which is the soft surface the playset instructions ask for, drawn as a circle so the cubic yards come out right. The trampoline gets the open lawn on the other side, away from the tree.

A paver patio by the back door keeps the adults within sight of both, a shrub bed along the back fence softens the boundary, and the fence itself runs round three sides. Everything in the play circle is placed as an item, so the total lists the playset and the sandbox as their own lines.

What is in it

Material How much Ballpark cost
Sod 1,214 sq ft $486 – $1,335
Concrete Pavers 160 sq ft $1,920 – $4,480
Gravel 160 sq ft · 1.5 cu yd $59 – $126
Topsoil 1,214 sq ft · 15.0 cu yd $375 – $899
Mulch 541 sq ft · 5.0 cu yd $150 – $326
Steel Edging 119 linear ft $476 – $1,072
Tree 1 $120 – $500
Shrub 5 $125 – $450
Fence 130 linear ft $2,600 – $7,800
Patio Set 1 $400 – $3,000
Playset 1 $800 – $5,000
Trampoline 1 $300 – $1,500
Sandbox 1 $100 – $600
Materials in total $7,911 – $27,088

National ranges for materials only, before labour and delivery. The planner quotes the same list for your state, and every quantity here changes as soon as you move something.

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