Every family member can benefit from these elevated (literally) backyard retreats. In an era of tree house vacation rentals and biophilic design, it’s no surprise that simple backyard builds are ...

When life gets messy, it’s easy to daydream about leaving your typical day-to-day and escaping to a place in the woods where you can leave your troubles behind. Treehouses can offer a wonderful escape ...

July 29, 2006 — -- Actor Val Kilmer has a luxury tree house. So do Sting and Julianne Moore. In fact, more and more people are building play houses for adults in their backyards. Tree houses have ...

Though it's ostensibly for the kids, the hacienda-style tree house in Bill Bost's backyard is also his secret dream come true. "I loved playing in tree houses when I was little," says the Menlo Park ...

Who doesn't want a treehouse for their kids, or even for themselves? But if you can DIY this project, you can save a lot of money without sacrificing safety.

Carpenter Joel “Bubba” Smith builds tree houses for a living. But these are not the rickety, slapped-together, sticks-nailed-slipshod-to-the- tree-in-the-backyard tree houses of childhood memory. As a ...

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SANDPOINT, Idaho — A few years ago, KREM 2 brought you the story of a Sandpoint man who built a tree house that went viral and was even featured on several TV shows. He has built another tree house ...

Remember the good old days when a tree house was a rough-looking assemblage of two-by-fours and plywood wedged into the crook of your backyard oak tree? These days, tree houses are more than just ...

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When Jeff and Millie Baird bought a rugged 165-acre property in California’s Sonoma County in 2010, their goal was to spend more family time outdoors. So the first thing they built was a tree house: a ...