“Hey Shelter team,
I just found this neat blog and figured it’d be good for a blog post or spot in your next book (even if it’s not a boat). He’s secretly built a beautiful egg shaped treehouse in the backcountry near Whistler BC, and his story about how he did it is pretty entertaining to boot!
https://thehemloft.com/
-Glen Jackson”
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
I'm totally in love with this one. It's right out of my own designs and imagination. Thanks for building it!!
Wow, what a beautifully inspiring story, structure, and builder. Thanks for posting it Lloyd !
I really admire your creativity. It is gorgeous. You look very young on TV. Are you studying architecture?