Treehouse Guide

I found another great resource for Treehouses on the net: The Treehouse Guide. It's generally well designed and has a great trove of building advice, book reviews and links, but most promising is a list of treehouses that people have built. Unfortunately, the list is mostly just short text descriptions, no photos in-line and few links to external sites describing the treehouses. Those sites that do have links are almost all dead now.

I was struck, as I looked through the list of treehouses that the site provides, that what I want out of a treehouse is really more tree than house. There are a number of treehouses listed that look on the inside like any old cabin that happen to be located in or near a tree (for example). Let me be 100% clear: this is not what I want. If I wanted painted sheetrock and linoleum floors and cheap oak cabinets, I'd buy a trailer and hoist into the air. I want to sleep in the arms of the tree and frolick in her branches. The house should be almost part of the tree.

I've been thinking that it would be fun to put together a Google Maps interface that would let you browse treehouses by location. It will take some work, but I've got time.