The Treehouse Book

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		The Treehouse Book
		The Treehouse Book

It seems that almost everyone likes treehouses.  Smiles of recognition turn into grins of enthusiasm as more people discover them and dream about making their own private retreats or family play spaces.  And it's nice to remind ourselves that treehouses are built into the oldest and most forgiving, living things on earth.  Also, history records treehouses as being built as deliberate follies, as challenges for arboreal designers, for merrymaking, and for keeping the spirit of fairy tales alive.  But treehouses can also be social places.  We will visit many that were built to entertain, to hang out with friends, or as guest houses.  Trees come in all types.

Master treehouse builders Peter and Judy Nelson, with David Larkin, have embarked on yet another treehouse-discovery expedition across America, this time adding the investigation of backyard playhouses to their agenda.  Now, in The Treehouse Book, they reveal their findings, illustrated and described in the most complete volume yet. From casual treeshacks made from discarded lumber to multitiered feats of fancy, they found shelters representing myriad builders--interesting characters ranging from childhood fanatics grown up, to weekend carpenters, to those who want their grandkids to have the best clubhouse on the block.

Detailed how-to information, including plans and drawings, is woven with behind-the-scenes tales of each structure's occupants and stunning interior and exterior photographic exploration.

Peter and Judy Nelson are builders of custom houses. They are the authors of the bestselling Home Tree Home  and Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb.

David Larkin is a renowned editor and book designer.  His many bestselling books include Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks, American Masterworks, Barn and Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb.

网友对The Treehouse Book的评论

We gave this book as a Gift to my son's wonderful girlfriend upon her college graduation (she is now
an Official Architect, graduating with Honors!), thinking this book might become a sort of "Guide" to
starting her career ... & maybe figuring-out how to build a nice Starter Home. She LOVED the book!!
Thank you, it's a Beaut! (So is she.)

michael

This is the third book from Peter Nelson of Treehouse Workshop. His previous two delved in depth into treehouse construction. This work is more a survey of the many wonderful treehouses to be found throughout the world. It is crammed with quality color photographs and, unlike a previously reviewed work, has a unifying narrative throughout.

Peter starts you off with a very useful section entitled "Choice of Tree". There he briefly touches upon suitability of various tree species to treehouse construction and provides a mini sketch of each tree species with a treehouse. Immediately after comes some very accurate arboriculture advice from Jonathan Fairoaks. It's nice to find a treehouse book that gets this part right for a change.

For me, the real value of this book is in the tour it takes you on of many notable treehouse. I bring this book to meetings with clients so they can see the many incredible things possible. And for those who've never considered it possible that a treehouse could be any more than a small, roughly built box, this book will blow their minds.

What this book lacks is building advice. It's not a "how-to" book. There really is no great "how-to" book out there. Even so, highly recommended.

An excellent picture book of a variety of beautiful and even inspiring tree houses. Provides great fodder for dreaming, but only a little general guidance as to actual construction. We bought it for our 4 year old, and he loves it, but it also converted my wife to the tree house cause; She no longer complains when, while house hunting, I closely examine trees for tree house potential.

You'd need a more technical book before embarking on actual construction, but I've seen none better for inspiring many evenings of daydreaming.

I look at this every so often and wish that there was a tree near by so that I could build a treehouse. The pictures are excellent.

Nice book that shows several pictures of various types of treehouses that have been built with basic info on how to build one. I wish there were many more pictures of ideas that can be built. Binding on book separated off when I first opened the book which was disappointing. Other than that, the book was in excellent shape.

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