Houzz Call: Show Us Your Well-Designed Treehouse or Tree Fort! (3 photos)

My first childhood experience with a treehouse failed miserably. Or, I should say, my father’s attempt to build my siblings and me a treehouse was an embarrassing failure. (Sorry, Dad. I know you tried). His intentions were sound: Use a hexagonal-shaped wooden hot-tub cover as a base to put on top of our old swing-set posts and build up from that with walls of leftover fence boards, then fashion a roof and voilà, we would have our very own fort in the trees.

He got the wooden hot-tub cover pieces fastened together and somehow got that on top of the swing-set beams. We had a floor! But our majestic dreams quickly vanished as my dad got pulled into other projects. All we had in the backyard was a wooden platform with no walls 10 feet off the ground. Not exactly the Swiss Family Robinson experience I had in mind.

But because of this, or despite of it, I’ve always been fascinated by exotic, well-built treehouses. I’m amazed at what contemporary architects are doing with the concept: building fully functional houses with modern materials right up in the trees, oftentimes without harming the trees at all. With that in mind, here are a few treehouses and forts that keep the childlike wonderment alive.

Architect Missy Brown designed the stunning treehouse seen here for a couple who owns several hundred acres of land in Vail, Colorado. Inside is a desk, a sofa and even a portable cooktop.


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