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These books are available to buy through amazon.co.uk. They are listed in order of popularity, based on sales made via The Treehouse Guide. Stiles' book Tree Houses You Can Actually Build is the best-selling and covers basic structures for absolute beginners, described in everyday language. Nelson's Home Tree Home is more comprehensive, with lots of advice on choosing the right kind of tree and building strong frames, along with real life examples.
Nelson's two other books - Treehouses and The Treehouse Book - have less building knowledge but an incredible selection of treehouses photographed from around the world, including multi-level structures and children's hideaways. You'll find this type of book is great if you want to see some inspirational treehouses to get your designs flowing.
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This is the most popular book of practical treehouse construction available. As a cheap and cheerful build book this one is hard to beat. The emphasis is on easy to build small structures for children, with all the extras that make them fun to play in. There are instuctions on building a range of small treehouses, geared towards those with little prior building experience.
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The original treehouse book, based around a large collection of stories and amazing photography from treehouse enthusiasts. There is also an interesting account of the history of treehouses and basic construction knowledge.
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The story of how a very serious treehouse came to be. Some tricky engineering problems were overcome to get this mammoth structure into its resting place and the finish of the two floored interior is superb. Written in a narrative form, this is sure to get you reaching for a pencil and paper to draw up your plans.
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Practical building manual by the owner of the now closed The Treehouse Company, John Harris. The book covers the construction of a circular treehouse built in an oak. There are a lot of good photographs on each stage and tips for alternate solutions to the various problems that come up as the build progresses. One thing lacking is advice on flexible joints as they aren't used in this single tree configuration.
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Initially, a light-hearted tale of Peter Nelson's voyage through the people and places around his treehouse building life. This book also has an practical side, encouraging the reader to believe that it's quite possible to live or work in a treehouse, and that anyone can build one with some help.
Due to the emphasis on larger structures, this is recommended for those with some familiarity of woodwork.
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Peter Nelson's latest book is visually stunning and is filled with photographs of treehouses from all around the US. It is something of a sequel to his first book Treehouses in this respect, but has a better balance of useful building information with coffee table interest.
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An extensive and well photographed record of the major treehouses round the world. The gloss is balanced with a decent quantity of text, including a particularly in depth history section. There is a small part on building a treehouse, but the main focus of the book is on successful existing treehouse projects.
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A trip around the world, looking at treehouses in different cultures. The book covers 35 buildings and is of the coffee table format.
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A collection of treehouse building stories from across the world which follows the lines of a picture-and-story book.
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David Stiles is a skilled designer, as this book clearly shows. Although this isn't about building in trees, the ideas and building techniques are readily adaptable should you wish to venture skywards. Suited for those with no building experience.
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Another collection of mostly ground based buildings. The Stiles' pattern of real hands-on advice and technique shows through with many plans of all sorts of small buildings included. If you haven't made up your mind what kind of unique place you want to make, this could be for you.
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