From Chris McClellan:
“…the treehouse SunRay built in Portland in a 300 year old fir tree in the middle of a suburb. When one of the neighbors complained and brought out the building inspector he apparently fell in love with it because he told them to take the stairs down and put up a ladder so it wouldn’t be a deck because he had no authority over treehouses that weren’t decks with stairs.”
Chris’ website: https://www.industrialrustic.com/nb/
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:
From Chris McClellan:
beautiful…would love to sit in it..
AND
thankfully a building inspector with common sense (quite rare)
(and a sad pathetic neighbor, if the neighbor could not appreciate the rare beauty/technique and soul of this creation….)
18 more treehouses….worth a look, but gosh, some of these are much more than a treehouse….
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodeling-design/photos/18-of-the-worlds-most-stunning-treehouses/homes-with-a-view
Hooray for sanity over scrooge!