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8 Tips for Building a Treehouse

Where Should You Build a Treehouse? The first step is finding a sturdy tree that can handle the construction. Ideally, ...
In this video, I take on the challenge of building a cozy wooden treehouse deep in the forest. Step by step, I raise a solid ...
There’s a song that goes “we could build a house, we could plant a tree … ” but nowhere in that song does the potential of a house in a tree appear. It’s too bad, because treehouses can be a fun way ...
There’s something magical about treehouses. Perched amid the greenery, seemingly closer to the sky than the ground, these epicenters of endless adventures inspire whimsical visions in the young and ...
Mike Fitzgerald spent more than two years and at least $600,000 building a treehouse. The treehouse is supported by four trees, and it's connected to a patio on another tree via a swinging bridge. Now ...
Japan’s Takashi Kobayashi has found freedom in the canopies. Takashi Kobayashi built the observation site Dragon’s Nest — made of cypress and cedar and supported by a tabunoki (Japanese bay tree) — in ...
Q: Tim, I was spending a lazy weekend afternoon gazing at countless photos of actual treehouses that one could live in, and I was intrigued and am seriously thinking of building one. Mind you, I’m not ...
Treehouses of all kinds are experiencing a renaissance. When an acre-size slice of land in Gold Hill came on the market this year, local resident Jessica Brookhart, 41, snapped it up for $80,000. The ...
Already anchored to three mature walnut tree trunks, the Opportunity Enterprises Accessible Treehouse is well under construction. Thirteen feet above the ground, the 400-square-foot all-abilities ...
There's something magical about treehouses. Perched amid the greenery, seemingly closer to the sky than the ground, these epicenters of endless adventures inspire whimsical visions in the young and ...