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Final thought
Opening the rear window at the end of the main first-floor room offers a close-up of a black willow...
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Extra strength 4
In many ways, small inexpensive details can make all the difference in overall quality and strength....
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Upper rear window view, down
Just a wonderful peek at the warm mood the tree and rear entry combine to create on the rear deck....
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Upper rear window view, out
A second-story sleeping loft adds a new perspective to the rear view. This window also is one of the most visited by curious wildlife.
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Extra strength 3
A little steel can go a long way toward adding stiffness where needed. Here, a wall had to be cut in...
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Loft looking down
This is just a wonderful view -- looking down from the second-story sleeping loft to the first-floor...
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Skylight double feature
One of the things that treehouse design pioneer Pete Nelson always reminds his colleagues is to make...
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Upper front view
Different windows have different missions and get different designs. The lower window, tucked inside...
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Sleeping loft toward rear
This loft was designed for the ladies who will use it. A 6-foot-tall builder can carefully walk down...
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Up to the loft
The custom-made double-rung ladder that leads to the sleeping loft hooks to an iron pipe that...
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Extra strength 2
As always, happiness is in the details. Here, the posts are secured with half-inch galvanized bolts...
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Extra strength 1
Treehouses face wind forces normally found only come late summertime in the Florida keys. Reinforcing key joints means everything stays in place.
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Rear deck, looking out
To a person, every adolescent male who stands in this spot asks, "how deep is the pond?" So far, no one has jumped.
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Sitout from deck
Just a nice interplay of color, textures and dimensions. Even a veteran designer gets surprised some times by the way things come together.
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Passing through 3
The rake end at the rear of the sleeping loft is notched to allow a trunk ample right of way. In...
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Looking inside
With the back of the treehouse coming across on two planes, and the door living in the connecting...
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Rear deck looking west
Although not as deep as the section behind the main room of the first floor, the added deck space...
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Splitting the uprights
It's great when the math works. The end of the deck on this side was determined by where a 42-inch...
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