The Tree House...

I was fortunate enough to have the skills to build a tree house for a wonderful little girl, and help her mom fulfill a wish. I said I could build a tree house and I drew up some plans in my head then wrote them down. I will admit it wasn't the best drawing, but it conveyed the idea. The plan was to build an elevated platform round a double trunked redwood and make it so it was "up in the trees".

I decide on making it 10 x 12 so that I could get enough room around the tree and not have to cut a lot of wood to make it fit. Minimize waste was my goal. So we agreed to the design and I started to build the main platform. Six 4x4s on foundations tied with 2x6s, then 2x6s as the decking. I worked one weekend putting the main platform up, then spent the evenings during the week to continue. The next weekend was mostly used to get the deck finished, but the design changed a little so I had to adjust the plan. I would build a wall with a roof on one end so that there was some cover. I was a bit worried about building to big, was starting to look like a house!!!

So the tree house kind of looks like a house and it is in the tree so I think it has come out OK. The little girl seems to  like it as does her mother. I still need to finish a few little things, but it just about done. It cost a little more but I think it will be a hit.