World treehouse list

William Haring
Wentworth, NH, USA
9 December 2002

This New England treehouse is set among a grove of tall White Pines. It's set about five feet off the ground and bolted to half a dozen trees. Total space is about 250 sqaure feet of space; "green room" (almost all windows), narrow hallways, a "sleeping cave", bedroom and main room. Electricity is provided by 12 volt batteries and heat from a woodstove.

Nilufer-Levent AKAD
Faralya Village, Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey
27 November 2002

A wildlife spot with treehouses, for international friendship.

Ken Knight
Puebla, Mexico
12 November 2002

Recently purchased land, in Aztec country in Southern Mexico, with three large, ancient trees just crying out for a beautiful cluster of tree-houses and tree-walks. Mountain included. I was always frustrated by my family in my attempts to build tree-houses in my former life in UK, before I came to beautiful Mexico with its wonderful Aztec people.

The Minnesota Treesnakes
Minnesota, USA
www.geocities.com/treesnakes/index.html
28 October 2002

Built our treehouse in a pair of Northern Red Maple trees above a wild and scenic Central Minnesota river. Featured in two recent treehouse books, we enjoyed keeping our website up-to-the-minute with photos and stories.

Greg Shepherd
Eugene, OR, USA
shepfarm.com/treehouse
23 October 2002

We just started it this summer. Once the front deck is finished, then we'll get working on the house structure

Dennis Desmarais
Guemes Island, WA, USA
19 October 2002

This is our second treehouse on the propoerty. My sons sleep in the first. This one is for my wife and I. It took us about 5 weeks to build over two summers. I originally told my wife it would cost $500 to build but it ended up be substantially more - it got to be much more elaborate as we built it than I had planned.

Maya Goodman
Fresno, CA, USA
15 October 2002

In four redwoods in Santa Cruz with a view of Monterey Bay, 10 ft by 20 ft - it's sick.

Wolfgang May
Nuernberg, Germany
12 October 2002

I'm an artist and I built a 25 square meter wide treehouse, two floors, kitchen, bath and porch.

It is in a height of 6.5 meters and 3.5 meters high.

David Readman
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England
26 September 2002

I built our tree house for Lucy 8 and Harry 6. It's in a leafy plum tree so only about 6' off the ground. I used rustic garden poles and sawn planks with bamboo for the roof so it would not look out of place in the jungle. Furniture - just 2 benches and a wooden box. The childen love it but after they go to bed I love to take a bottle of red wine up and watch the sun go down.

Mural Adams
Lena, Oconto County, Wisconsin, USA
21 September 2002

Suspended from cables to three cedar trees, our tree house is the occupation of my wife and I since we retired. It is not for children, or grandchildren, it is for us. The floor is about 10 off the ground, the peak of the roof is about 24 feet up. Dimensions, about 8 ft. by 12 foot, at least right now. It could grow onto another tree. Someone asked, "When will it be finished?", I said, "Probably never".

Xavier Arnau
Mexico City, Mexico
5 September 2002

I'm building a tree house for my kids, in a tree called "Sauce" (I don't know this type of tree in English). Actually I'm begining to establish what kind of walls I should use. The floor of the tree house is 12' off ground.

Joe and Mackenzie
Michigan, USA
31 August 2002

This is a family project that started in spring of 1999. Our treehouse is on two live trees with 10 support treetrunk/poles 30 ft high with 2 stories, the first is 24 x 14, 2nd is 16 x 14. It has kitchen, 2 bathrooms, 2 fireplaces, living room, bedroom. Accessed by stairway to the second landing, then ladder to enter the hatch door in floor.

Darryl Boyd
Spring Creek, NV, USA
treetopcastles.com
26 August 2002

"Metalscape, Inc. manufactures full scale steel trees with treehouses for a unique office, child's playhouse or private retreat."

The prototype tree and house was made 7 years ago for my daughters. As Nevada has no trees where we are the steel tree proved to be a decent solution and has since been developed into a product line for my ornamental ironworking business.

Philip Crisler
Covington, WA, USA
26 August 2002

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The SPIRAL STAIRCASE hasn't hurt the evergreen and it's over two years old now. Building it was fairly simple... I'm not a carpenter... and it's holding up well. I let the kids play in it too.

Rich Renouf
Mount Shasta, CA, USA
macshasta.com/treehouse.htm
22 August 2002

3 year project and still going...

Jeff Hanus
Belvidere, IL, USA
10 August 2002

Nestled in woods of rolling hills of Jo Davis County, IL. Outside of Galena, IL, sitting in 6 old oak trees, is a rustic treehouse. We live in 500sq. foot on weekends, we have a loft with a deck all the way around the treehouse, we are in the making of a catwalk through the woods on our 8 acres. I'm a portable welder I fabricated all my brackets. My treehouse floats in the air.

Nick Boyd
St Joseph, Missouri, USA
rusticricksculpture.tripod.com
24 July 2002

More a treedeck than a treehouse.

Alan Copeland
Forest Grove, OR, USA
21 July 2002

The treehouse is in a dead maple tree and has skylights, a u-shaped bench with a center table that retracts, power and antenna acess for TV, etc. Much of the construction used material from the tree, but some lumber was also used. A trap door was just completed for safety and security. It has been a lot of fun!

Patrick
MB, Canada
members.shaw.ca/patrick-nt/treehouse.html
13 July 2002

I was 12 when I started working my tree house and now I'm 14 and I'm still constantly adding to it. At this point the tree house has 2 stories with balconies about 3 feet higher than the first floor. I used to have a basement but I had to take it apart since I was running low on wood. The second floor is has a roof and walls with screened windows, a roof trapdoor and a trapdoor to get inside.

Jeff
Dallas, TX, USA
11 May 2002

The treehouse I have is built in a greenbelt park - there is a lot of time and effort into it. Almost everything has been recycled from the local creek mostly made of 2x4s to 2x8. Sits three 3 levels the roof consists of two layers of 1/2 inch plywood because it gets hot here I made the side hinged so that I can ventilate it as well as serve as a shelf its built into three maple trees and has now been there for 15 months also under the first deck I built in two birdhouses that some wrens took to immediately, however I did not get permission to build this and few know of it even though its right off a major highway here in Dallas.

Tom Lepore
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
24 April 2002

My treehouse is built in a 90' tree in my backyard. At about 3' above ground level, the tree splits into 4 very distinct trees that reach for the sky. My treehouse uses these four trees to form the corners of the house. These trunks are 1/2 IN the house and 1/2 OUT of the house. It is weather-proof (but not yet squirrel-proof. I will finish THAT this summer. It's cool. Thanks

Steven Horwood
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
3 April 2002

I am about to commence. I am in very early design stage. Looking for ways to build without anchoring to the tree (old california oak). I have a $5000 budget, materials and labor (figuring $2200 labor - approx 80 hrs).