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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi should get together and build a tree house. So should Elton John and Madonna, Jean Quan and the Oakland Police Department, and everyone who has ever appeared on a "Real ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Tree houses and yurts are expected to be available in spring 2024 for overnight stays in Ottawa County’s Ottawa Sands park. Here are five things to know about the new camping ...

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 ...