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Tree House Tent

A new tent to hang from trees - not a bad idea!

Dangling from a tree trunk like a surreal oversized pear, the Treetent is a cross between a treehouse and a tent. But Dutch sculptor Dre Wapenaar sees his creation as much more than just a novel bit of camping kit. It is, he says, […]

New Zealanders love their treehouses. Here’s a new one for the treehouse mix on this website; a treehouse that yellow pages new zealand is sponsoring. Its going to be a restaurant 10 metres up in a redwood tree. The site is heavy on flash content which doesn’t make it easy for linking pics to site, […]

Six years ago, when I was visiting the south island of New Zealand - I travelled on a remote unsealed road in the Otago region. In the far off distance I saw strange site… it was house shifting to the east on the horizon behind the hills. I had to pinch myself, had I been […]

Here’s a quick link to an article about a guy who did a treehouse internship:
“I had a six-month internship over the summer,” he said. “I did drafting, design drawing and some deck and platform construction.”
During the internship, Yorke helped build five treehouses in the Seattle area. The company’s clientele, he said, consists of two types […]

This will be my only new post of the month - sorry if its a bit short but I hope you find it interesting. I like the idea of alternative living spaces - so here are a couple of to think about Yurts and Tipis - These are both manufacturers of modern dwellings based on […]

In New Zealand - a bungalow is commonly referred to as a ‘bach’. The are usually scrapped together with materials in often an ingenius fashion. The Atelier Workshop has put together a unique spin on the NZ bach, you can see there designs at Port-A-Bach.com.
Essentially the Bach is created from a shipping container! See pics […]

Tree house update again!

I’ve bookmarked some new treehouses and put them in my blog. Click on image below my running post for Treehouses of the World

Just added some new tree house to the incredible tree house post I made last month. These came from top 8 most amazing tree houses post on freshome (click on image below):

What is it about tree houses that inspire such joy and childlike wonder? Is because there is an innate quality that still resides in us from when we once arboreal beings? I’ve saved a few bookmarks over the past few months of some of the most unique treehouses I have found around the world. Here […]