Over the last couple of months we have been scavenging materials to build the Ultimate Tree house - at least on our budget. The kids had been asking for a while to have a treehouse but I really didn't have the desire to put in that much work. But after I had the plan (laid out in my head and not on paper) I decided this was the best way to spend time with my kids. It proved to be one of my fondest memories with my kids - 2 weeks of treehouse building. If any of you are comtemplating how to spend quality time with your kids, this is it.
To start, we studied plans from the internet and books at Barnes and Noble. There were some very cool designs but all new construction. We wanted to build this trying to re-use wood and any other material we could. It started by scavenging the wood from our neighbors cedar fence, then it extended to scavenging during the city cleanup day and finally we received a huge amount of wood from Adrianne's dad - all from used rafters. I wanted to provide a day by day log of what we did because perhaps it would help future dads plan their treehouse. If someone hadn't done that and posted to the internet it would have been much harder coming up with plans. But I just don't have that much skill with computers and posts.
Some unique things to our treehouse are: 2 trees for support, one tree log from our previous aspen tree for support, wood from 5 different sources including the dump, a bucket for hauling materials up, a door that can be closed from outside and locked, accessories from IKEA, forest service green for the exterior color, shingles that match our home shingles, carpet and enough room to sleep 4. Enjoy the photos. We added the sandbox last week for fun - it is in a location that was an eyesore but is now an 6ft x 8ft x 18 in. sandbox. Sweet!!!
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