Tree Houses within Reach
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Tree Houses within Reach: 30 Lofty Cabins, Playhouses, and Getaways You Can Actually Build

Tree Houses within Reach: 30 Lofty Cabins, Playhouses, and Getaways You Can Actually Build


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This lively showcase of wildly different and eclectic tree houses will inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of building a tree house of their own. The tree houses featured in Tree Houses within Reach range from simple platform structures to raised office spaces, tiny houses to playhouses-proving that a tree house can be creative, useful, and beautiful while still being affordable and accessible to those with modest building skills. With extraordinary photos and fascinating profiles of the stories behind the builds, author Derek Diedricksen has curated this collection of tree houses with his trademark eye for quirkiness, thrift, and reused materials-featuring everything from a robot-themed tree house with salvaged windows to a 38-square-foot pod that relies solely on trees for support. For those eager to start their own projects, Diedricksen leads the reader through the most important nuts & bolts of tree house building and offers tips and suggestions throughout. The book includes step-by-step photographs of a basic sample build.

About the Author :
Derek "Deek" Diedricksen is the author of Micro Living and Microshelters. He has hosted, built, and designed for the HGTV series Extreme Small Spaces and Tiny House Builders, as well as for the DIY Network, and has just released a feature-length documentary film, The Box Truck Film: Building a REUSEful Home. His work has been featured in numerous places in print and online, including NPR, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Times, the Wall Street Journal, Make magazine, Yahoo.com, Apartment Therapy, Treehugger.com, and Design Sponge. Diedricksen has taught hands-on building workshops around the United States since 2010, runs the YouTube design channel "RelaxshacksDOTcom", and professionally builds tiny houses, tree houses, and backyard offices for clients. He lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts.

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"Diedricksen highlights the versatility of tree houses in this enjoyable guide. Among the simplest structures are a narrow box with transparent plastic walls for bird watching and a "truck bed and cap held aloft on a tree stump," but it's the most complex edifices that make the biggest impression. These include a luxury Vermont tree house with a bathroom, loft bed, and back porch; an elevated pirate ship with a below-deck crawl space, a crow's nest, and tree limbs in the place of masts; and a "floating" yurt suspended by "an upgraded version of padded cargo straps." On the prescriptive side, Diedricksen walks through how to build an A-frame house, detailing how to set support posts in concrete, erect cross beams, and assemble the walls and ceiling. He also outlines general construction tips and principles, suggesting that maple, oak, and other hardwoods provide the most durable foundations and warning that "collaring" trees too tightly with decking or flooring restrains their ability to sway during storms and widen as they grow. The basic guidance won't be enough for novices to recreate the most dazzling edifices, but it will help get more modest projects off the ground. This will inspire readers to take to the trees."--Publishers Weekly "A wonderful reminder to never underestimate the joyful, magical powers that come with inhabiting a treehouse!"​--B'fer & Ka-V, The Tree House Guys "Deek makes construction fun, and within reach for those of us who don't own a hammer."--Kirsten Dirksen, filmmaker YouTube/*faircompanies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781635868302
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC
  • Height: 252 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 640 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1635868300
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: 30 Lofty Cabins, Playhouses, and Getaways You Can Actually Build
  • Width: 198 mm


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