Tin Roof

Treehouse Workshop, Inc. specializes in building tree houses. They are based in sunny Seattle, Washington. This post will continue after I change my underwear.

Anyway, they've got a good list of books, other resources on the web, etc. I'll explore these and post here as appropriate and I've signed up for for their workshop mailing list, so more should come in the future.

They've got a beautiful gallery of treehouses they've built. They've got some great examples of what I don't want (i.e., houses built on platforms that happen to be in between trees) as well as exactly what I do want (e.g., houses built around the trunks of trees high in the air).

This one perplexes me. I'm not sure if I love it or hate it. It looks kind of like someone built a house and then dropped it into a tree.

Oh, here's one cool idea I found on their site that I want to add to my requirements list: tin roof so I can hear the rain. Mmmm...pitter pat.

Australian Arboreal Living

Treehugger posted this one this morning:

The Sydney Morning Herald recently featured a tree house built by Andrea Wilson and with her husband, Rod Simpson. Their tree house has windows covered with two types of materials: one of sail cloth, the other of polycarbonate. When open, they provide not only views down to the jetty at Wollstonecraft, but plenty of natural ventilation.

Across the open-plan space on a diagonal, the kitchen area can also be opened up by removing individual panels of recycled corrugated polycarbonate, each one fastened in place with a primitive catch featuring long wooden rods.

The materials in the house are recycled. The decking in the kitchen courtyard is second-hand jarrah, the kitchen drawers, built by the architect Drew Heath, are ironbark with leather thongs as handles. Other storage units, including a credenza in the kitchen and surfaces in Wilson's office area, are made of plywood, as are the unpainted walls and ceilings.


:: Sydney Morning Herald via Land+Living via Treehugger

Inaugural Entry

I'm going to build a treehouse, damn it. Not a couple of planks nailed to a dead oak in my parent's backyard, nor a regular house on stilts, but a full-on friggin' treehouse that has a circular staircase curling around the trunk to the front door, limbs growing in the midst of the living room, a zip-line to bedroom, a balcony overlooking the forest floor below, a fireman's pole for quick escapes, a rope swing from the deck to river, a pot-bellied stove huffing and puffing its way to warmth in the winter, cozy little nooks carved and twisted into the arms of nature. A real TREEHOUSE just like I always dreamed of, except now I'm really going to do it.

This blog will initially be collecting links to interesting treehouse and treehouse related things I find on the web and elsewhere, to give me ideas. Later, it will document the construction of my treehouse. Later still, I will post pictures of my treehouse and you will be jealous because you will want treehouses of your own. Well, you can have one of your own, or you can come visit mine. I promise not to post a "No Girls Allowed" sign on my treehouse.