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Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb [Paperback]

Peter Nelson (Author), David Larkin (Designer)
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Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and beautiful photographs, Treehouses paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. It provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. It shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. And it tells the stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms nailed together by kids to arboreal palaces constructed and lived in by grown-ups. The centerpiece of the book is a photo essay showing Pete Nelson building a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. With two hundred square feet of floor space, cedar paneling, and leaded French doors, the Saltspring treehouse is one of the finest specimens of the treehouse builder's art. Anyone who has ever built a treehouse, or dreamed of it, or read Swiss Family Robinson, will find Treehouses irresistible.

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Lively writing and beautiful full-color photographs provide a brief history of treehouses from the time of Rome's Caligula to Queen Victoria. The stories of dozens of treehouses and their builders parallel how-to instructions and a photo-essay centerpiece of the author's 200 sq.ft. octagonal treehouse in Canada.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tree Huggers Beware., Dec 14 2002
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Scott Knudsen (Air Ronge, Saskatchewan Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb (Paperback)
Great Book, with lots of great pictures. Some technical stuff also. Another book that has a little bit on building tree houses is called "Shelters Shacks and Shanties by D.C. Beard. I love tree's myself but for you tree huggers complaining about a few nails, sheesh, your houses are full of lumber. Look in the walls at the studs, under the floors at the joists, kitchen cabinets, dining room table and chairs, bedroom furniture, etc. etc. so don't worry about a few nails in a tree eh, they love the iron in them anyhow!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Promotion for Treehouses, July 7 2002
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Big Wood Guy (Bolton, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb (Paperback)
This book is 90% inspiration and 10% technical information. I don't think that there is enough information for someone wanting to build their own treehouse, but if you already have one of those books, then this one is a good companion for inspirational purposes.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting at a high level, Sep 22 2001
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Ian J McKenna (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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I was looking for something practical to help me design and build a tree house for my 5 year old. This is a great book if you want to consider "possibilities". It helped a little, as well in terms of providing conceptual designs. It was not as good in providing detailed plans on how to build a specific tree house. If you are an experienced builder you could probably take what they have here and develop your own blueprints. If you are a novice,and need detailed plans this book will not get you there.
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