Pictorial Essay: 21 of the World’s Coolest Treehouses

I’m pretty much BURNED OUT with the crapola newz.  I can’t take it anymore.  I have little left to say that I haven’t said before. Really.  Amerika sucks. See what I mean? Same shit, different day.  And, when I DO come up with something novel — like men boinking horses — you people go ape-shit, for weeks on end.

Anyway … treehouses. Every real boy has built one.  So, this should be an entertaining few minutes. I built three. They all lasted a long time …. until the tree grew and the thing stretched apart, or a branch rotted and it collapsed, or in one case a strong wind twisted the supporting tree trunks in opposite directions and the whole damn thing ripped apart. That last one was literally across the street from the house my parents still live in. Anyway,  I don’t know how these treehouses below solved these problems. Maybe they used a better brand of duct tape and better finishing nails.

I don’t know if girls built treehouses. So, you ladies here might find this boring. I do know they liked climbing up in them, though.  I saw my second ever vaginny in my tree house — the one the wind tore apart.  Her name was Susan K. — and, yeah, we played “doctor” fifteen feet above the ground.  I think I was about twelve.  Today’s twelve year old would have tapped that thing out.  Me?  I didn’t know what to do with the damned thing.  Just looked at it.  Poked it once or twice. And that was that.  She looked at my thang, and laughed. It would be another eight years till I saw another vaginny again. This time I knew what to do with it.  Ya just poke it with a special tool.

Minimal commentary.  I mean what can you say about a treehouse that I haven’t already said?

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COSTA RICA — more of a “house in the trees” than an actual treehouse. The Boeing 727 cost $2,000, another $4,000 to move, and $24,000 to build.  It has a jacuzzi in the cockpit.  I think that’s a helluva bargain.  More very cool pictures and a brief story here;  http://www.boredpanda.com/vintage-boeing-727-turned-into-luxorious-hotel/

REVELSTOKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA

 

SWEDEN — THE MIRROR CUBE

 

GREENWICH VILLAGE NYC —- Sure, it’s plain. But, it’s in NEW YORK CITY! Shortly after the owner built this for her three girls, the police showed up at her door. A neighbor had complained about the structure and filed a complaint with the city. After months of legal battles, the owner not only won, but the treehouse was granted landmark status.  http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-treehouse-that-could-at-no-50.html

Greenwich Village

 

COSTA RICA — Finca Bellavista is a 350-acre site on Costa Rica’s southern coast  …. the world’s first modern treehouse community ….. 5 houses, 24 buildings, including a community center ….. all suspended in the trees.  —– http://www.fincabellavista.com/

 

ISSAQUAH,WASHINGTON — “Temple of the Blue Moon” ….  sits partway up a 300-year-old, 160-foot-tall Sitka Spruce.  (Exterior and interior)

On a primordial patch of forest in Fall City, Washington sits Nelson's Northwest Treehouse School, a place for people to come learn about nature, construction and--naturally--the art of building treehouses. A main lodge can accommodate 40 people for classes, and there are several treehouses with comfortable guest lodgings.

 

HOKUTO CITY, JAPAN — “Teahouse Testsu”

 

INDONESIA — “Free Shit Lookout”

 

NEW ZEALAND — “Redwoods Treehouse”. Amateur entrepreneurs were challenged to build a restaurant 30 feet up a redwood tree using only those resources they could find in Yellow Book’s directory. 

 

TENNESSEE —- 100 feet high …. supported by a still-living 80 foot white oak with a 12-foot diameter base, and six other oak trees for support …… 10,000 square feet …. Has a basketball court. Built by a local minister. Why? Because God told him to. Constructed with 99% re-cycled material … including some planks from Noah’s Ark.

 

OKINAWA — this petrified tree trunk dates all the way back to the dinosaur era.

Extraordinary: Gajumaru Treehouse Diner in Okinawa overlooks the picturesque Naha Harbour. Customers enter via the spiral staircase at the back

 

MINNESOTA — “Tuckers Treehouse”

 

ITALY

tree houses

 

CHINA

tree houses

 

WASHINGTON — the builder’s amazing blog here;  http://www.arestlesstransplant.com/

This is the incredible treehouse Foster Huntington and a group of close friends built on the Columbia River Gorge on Skamania Count

 

FRANCE — exterior and interior

 

NEW YORK

 

Somewhere …

That's some Tim Burton-ass looking treehouse shit right there.

 

JAPAN

KENTUCKY —- “Billy’s Treehouse”

 

You can actually rent out some of these tree houses. Really. Check it out;  http://www.bigboytravel.com/topten/best-tree-house-hotels/

Author: Stucky

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it.

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hardscrabble farmer

Simply amazing. We’re currently in the design stage for a treehouse library in the maple orchard. I’ve built a couple child friendly ones, but this will be a permanent four seasons structure with solar power and a woodstove. These are great motivators.

Best one yet.

Araven
Araven

Thank you Stucky. I’ve always wanted a treehouse.

bb

Good morning .When I was just a young lad in 1968 I had a next door neighbor who build his son a tree house. Not sure what happened but the kid fell out of it and broke his arm.I remember hearing him screaming and run over.Part of the bone had come through the top partof his arm.I never again saw that kid anywhere near that tree house.

Nice But just be sure to keep you balance when playing tree house.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Our treehouse was small but had a homemade stove on the inside (for cooking hotdogs, cocoa and Dinty Moore beef stew) and a small wrap-around deck. Eventually I added a rope-pulley system from the roof to the ground. (It was on a hill so the slope wasn’t too extreme.) Then I did what any kid would do: test it out by talking his little brother into trying the pulley first. One end of the rope came untied and he broke his arm in the fall.

I pass that MN treehouse (pictured above) most days. The guy who owns the property gives tours, but only if you agree to let him quote your personal lines insurance.

Me No Likey
Me No Likey

Ok. Great. Thanks. Now what are the Kardashians up to today?

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Nice pics, there is something majic about a treehouse. Stimulates the imagination of both young and old. I find them to be a great idea for a doomstead as they could be cloaked in such a way as to be less visible to your foe. Also if you are able to retrieve the ladder up to the treehouse then access would be highly unlikely for the intruder before you popped a cap up in his ass or brainpan.

SSS

Great entertaining article, Stucky, but you label yourself as ……………

“Stucky the Shit-Stirrer (SSS)”

I must remind you that there is only one genuine SSS on this site, who is here to a) irritate Admin, and b) inflame passionate responses, and a multitude of thumbs-down, from as many other visitors as possible. That has often included ……….. you. Heh.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

I gotta agree with admin….thanks for compiling these treehouse images Stucko.

Econman
Econman

Why no Ewok treehouses?

Ewok Treehouses Matter!

bb’s life & posts matter too…well, no they don’t. I went too far.

Lastly, posts like this are great, a nice change of pace. This & the castles may be your best. But stop whining if people don’t like your posts. Post them & don’t worry. All is fair game for criticism. Stucky & many here are similar to those who feel U can’t criticize Obama, or Bush. U can’t be Libertarian if U can be easily offended.

Econman
Econman

Bea Lever, that was a great comment.
Started like a fairytale, then screeeeech – went Transporter/Jason Statham. Hilarious.

Econman
Econman

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/08/22/the-outrageous-beauty-of-medieval-castles/

There’s the link to “tissue-skinned” Stucky’s magnum opus on castles. I have it bookmarked too, ya pansy.

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

Stucky, very entertaining, thanks for posting! I always enjoy your pictorial essays, must have missed the horse-boinking one though…

Justari
Justari

I’ve been to the Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee. The place is fascinating to explore in, literally rooms upon rooms, staircases upon staircases, and nooks upon nooks. You could explore in there for hours.

Don’t plan on a visit, though… the local Fire Marshall shut the place down for lack of fire exits and signage. >:(

Pirate Jo
Pirate Jo

Woo! I want the one with the psychedelic mushrooms growing in front of it!

Lothlorien, the ultimate treehouse fantasy.

taxSlave
taxSlave

Thanks Stucky for the brief respite of from the doom.

Your post is treemendous

I hope Hitlera gets indicted for treeson

Ghost

Very nice pictorial essay indeed!

And, yes, my father built me treehouse “starter” when I was ten in a giant oak at the furthest edge of the woods he’d let grow up after returning from being a POW in Japan after WWII. It was a simple platform about 15 feet up the tree consisting of six 2 x 6 planks he and I nailed into place together. He have me a few 2 x 4s to make some sort of makeshift frame for a tarp to use in case of rain or wind and eventually, I put together a makeshift tin roof and I had my private get away!

Unfortunately, it fell victim to the Swamplands Act of 1993 because a few of the limbs blew down in a storm and the laws were so convoluted about what could be removed from wooded areas in areas they’d declared to be protected (and the treehouse of my youth was protected swamplands, even though the woods surrounding it were only there because my father missed seeing trees while in POW camp in Japan.)

Oh, well. It looked sort of like the Temple of the Blue Moon in my memory (wink.)

Ghost

I looked at the pictures, the scenes, the location and MAYBE scanned a few sentences. You caught ME.

And, even if I’d read it, I would have assumed it was hyperbole and let it go. I wouldn’t nitpick something like that, especially about the Orient. They eat hundred year old rotten eggs, I hear. They are into petrified shit.

SSS

I’m calling bullshit on the Okinawa tree house. Am I right?

Heh.

fear & loathing

as cool as all these tree houses are i built my airborne Dacha ten years ago. very livable. instead of attaching to tress i built mine on stilts 14’surrounded by hardwoods. not quite the same, yet the feel is the same without tightening all the supports on regular intervals. trees are happy i am happy, no gutters

Llpoh
Llpoh

Treehouse. Monkeys. A mach made in heaven. Thanks, Stuck.

Archie
Archie

Good post stucky.

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