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Be in a Treehouse: Design / Construction / Inspiration [Hardback]

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  • Format: Hardback, 224 pages, height x width x depth: 293x201x25 mm, weight: 990 g, 300 Colour illustrations
  • Pub. Date: 25-Mar-2014
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • ISBN-10: 1419711717
  • ISBN-13: 9781419711718
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  • Format: Hardback, 224 pages, height x width x depth: 293x201x25 mm, weight: 990 g, 300 Colour illustrations
  • Pub. Date: 25-Mar-2014
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • ISBN-10: 1419711717
  • ISBN-13: 9781419711718
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Takes readers on a tour of twenty-six stylistically different treehouses in the U.S., Europe, and Africa, and discusses the newest techniques and hardware available for building safe, long-lasting, environmentally friendly treehouses.

Pete Nelson, the world’s best-known treehouse designer and builder, wants to put readers in trees his motto is, ?get ’er done, so you can BE in a TREE.” His new book is a comprehensive source of inspiration and practical information about treehouse design and construction. To that end, he shares the basics of treehouse construction with his own recent projects as case studies. Using photographs taken especially for this project along with diagrams, he covers the selection and care of trees, and explains the fundamentals of building treehouse platforms. To ignite the imagination, Nelson presents 27 treehouses in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The book will be indispensible to anyone who aspires to have a treehouse, from the armchair dreamer, to the amateur builder, to the professional contractor.

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With its stunning photos of fanciful houses, Nelsons book will appeal to anyone who ever read Peter Pan or The Swiss Family Robinson. . . . To browse through Nelsons book is to fantasize about life in midair. * The Washington Post Book World *

Introduction It's Not the Destination, It's the Journey 6(10)
1 The Treehouses at Treehouse Point
16(24)
The Hermitage
19(1)
The Temple of the Blue Moon
20(3)
Trillium
23(1)
Upper Pond
24(3)
Bonbibi
27(4)
The Bird Blind
31(4)
The Burl
35(5)
2 Treehouse U
40(32)
Tree Selection 101
42(3)
Treehouse Design Logic
45(3)
Treehouse Hardware 101
48(7)
Platform Design 101
55(3)
Rules of Thumb
58(1)
Platform Construction Basics
59(8)
Safety First
67(2)
Building Your Treehouse
69(1)
Planning and Permitting, or What I Learned the Hard Way from Treehouse Point
70(2)
3 Putting It All Together: The WC Ranch Treehouse
72(14)
4 A Tour of Single-tree Designs
86(20)
John and Alex's Serious Treehouse, Washington State
88(3)
Alex's Graffiti Studio, Mid-Atlantic States
91(4)
Cottage Lake Treehouse, Washington State
95(1)
The Witch House, Ibiza, Spain
96(4)
The Spirit House, Rhinebeck, New York
100(3)
The Irish Cottage, Huntington Beach, California
103(3)
5 A Tour of Multiple-tree Designs
106(30)
Highland, Seattle, Washington
109(4)
The White (Oak) House and Mooney Brewhouse, Glenmont, Ohio
113(8)
Treehouse Spa, Bastrop, Texas
121(4)
Jack's Treehouse, near Seattle, Washington
125(1)
Valley View, Southern Oregon
126(5)
The Hackberry Farmhouse, Mart, Texas
131(3)
Hidden Hollow Treehouse, Sandwich, Massachusetts
134(2)
6 A Walk in the Woods: Inspiring Treehouses Collected from All Over
136(82)
Majestree, Out'n'About, Takilma, Oregon
139(1)
Santuario de Basurto, Woodinville, Washington
140(5)
Victor Brothers Treehouse, Western Washington
145(3)
The HemLoft, Whistler, BC, Canada
148(4)
Rocky Mountain High, Evergreen, Colorado
152(5)
Dick and Charlie's Tea Room, Caddo Lake, near Uncertain, Texas
157(4)
Attie Jonker's Treehouses
161(5)
Lion's Lair, San Antonio, Texas
161(1)
The Lunch House, San Antonio, Texas
162(2)
The Attic, San Antonio, Texas
164(2)
Cabin in the Trees, Ann Arbor, Michigan
166(5)
The French Gardener's House, Annapolis, Maryland
171(3)
Roderick Romero's Treehouses
174(10)
Dogwood Farm, Connecticut
174(3)
Lake Spectacle, Connecticut
177(2)
JEM Treehouse, Southampton, New York
179(1)
Lake Nest Treehouse, Southampton, New York
180(3)
Old N.W. Road House, East Hampton, New York
183(1)
James "B'fer" Roth's Treehouses
184(6)
Michael's Memorial, Warren, Vermont
184(3)
Zeno Mountain Farm, Lincoln, Vermont
187(3)
Topridge, Upstate New York
190(5)
Drynachan Lodge Treehouse, Cawdor, Scotland
195(4)
Tyrolean Treetop, Mariastein, Austria
199(1)
Art Farm, Kalamata, Greece
200(4)
Dylan's Africa
204(14)
Tongabezi Lodge Treehouse, Livingstone, Zambia
204(5)
Delta Camp Treehouse, Botswana
209(4)
Tarangire Treetops, Tanzania
213(3)
One Love Island Treehouse, Ngomeni, Kenya
216(2)
Sources 218(2)
Index 220(3)
Acknowledgments 223
Pete Nelsons previous books include Treehouses of the World (2004) and New Treehouses of the World (2009). Nelson is the host of Treehouse Masters, a show on Animal Planet that chronicles the construction of a treehouse in each hour-long episode, which launched on May 31, 2013.