Category Archives: luxury
Is Your Treehouse Illegal?
Is your treehouse illegal? It’s a question that, sadly, is an important one to ask before you start building. If you’ve been reading our articles over the years, you’ll know that all too often something as innocent as building a treehouse can send you straight into the middle of a legal nightmare. Take this recent […]
Bosco Verticale Redefines Treehouse Living
Bosco Verticale, which translates from Italian as “the vertical forest”, is a whole new concept in living with nature. Not everyone has the luxury of access to wilderness in which to commune with nature. In increasingly populated urban centres, many are deeply hemmed in by city with the nearest natural areas being a few […]
A Treehouse Addition
If you’ve been dreaming about building your own treehouse but haven’t yet, take heart. The opportunity may come in an unexpected way. This story is a beautiful example of thinking outside the box. When faced with a choice between cutting down a tree and building around it, Samad Firdosy and Sakhiba Khairulla decided to build […]
A John Lennon Celebrity Tree House?
Was this John Lennon’s celebrity tree house getaway? I stumbled upon this intriguing possibility while taking a tree house quiz. The first question asks which public figure was not known to have an adult tree house: John Lennon, Winston Churchill, or Elton John. I didn’t know any of them had tree houses, so being a […]
Pass-through Tree Architecture
An example of architectural design that includes the tree within the structure — very applicable to treehouse design. Almost all single tree, and many multi-tree treehouse designs have to deal with the issue of accommodating the tree trunk passing through the structure itself. This is a hard problem because it is not possible to seal […]
mmp architects treehouse
Are you looking for a design plan for something more upscale? mmp architects have released their floor plan for this Australian luxury treehouse. Image from: designboom.com
One More Thing About That Luxury Treehouse…
On Monday I blogged about a Canadian luxury treehouse and was all smiles about the whole thing. But that’s not the whole truth and it’s been niggling at me ever since. I wanted to be positive about the project because it’s too easy to focus on the downsides. Towards the end of that article I […]
Canadian Luxury Treehouse
Here’s a story that I saw on page A13 of the August 5 edition of one of our local papers, the Province. It features a $4.5 million treehouse that a couple, Shaun and Stephanie Mesher, had built for them near Comox on Vancouver Island. The original building estimate was $900, 000; it just ballooned from […]