This is copied from Corbin's Treehouse:
http://www.cruzio.com/~seaweb/corbin/

And now (while the pictures are loading) here is the story of the treehouse:
Once upon a time there was this tree. It wasn't just any tree.  In fact, it was several redwoods. Four or five, to be exact.  They lie on a hill in sunny Corralitos.  The boon-dogs of Santa Cruz in California. Anyways, about ten years ago my dad made a little platform in some trees for me to play on when I was a kid.  Four score (actually not four score, but four years I just wanted to say that) ago me and my friend Chris Howland decided to start making a treehouse at his house.  
The tree that we were building it on sucked, and the property that it was on wasn't ours so I figured why don't we do it at my house since it is already started.  We worked on it with a little help from my dad and eventually we had the floor finished.  The walls were then added and the roof was then stuck on top. (more pictures will come soon of the actual construction)  We got an old door which had old plain glass windows in it.  We took the glass out and replaced it with cool looking stained glass from Chris's house.  Chris's dad got us some carpet for free (pink, but it still looks cool.)  I had an old futon which eventually got replaced by a bed because it rained inside the treehouse for a while this had caused some mushroooms and grass to grow on the floor, but they are all gone now.  The well for my parent's house isn't too far from the treehouse so I ran a thick extention cord from it over to the treehouse allowing me to have electricity.  It also has running water (which I did all myself, thank you.) and a cool sink that we bought at a garage sale for 15 bucks.  

All together, we spent about a hundred bucks on the plywood for the sides and roof.  All the rest of the wood was scrounged up from a woodpile that was leftover from when my paren'ts big real house was built (sizteen years ago or so).  I have a small fridge in it and some cupboards thanks to Mr. Randy Smith who was doing some remodeling a while back.  Mr. Smith was my calculus teacher during my senior year of high school and he is a great teacher.  In fact, I got a 5 on the AP Calculus exam.  If you are still reading this send me e-mail and tell me what you think.  As for the interior decorating, the wood panaling on one half of the treehouse was aquired for free.  The sheetrock on the other half I bought and did myself.  I encourage anyone who comes into the treehouse to add a painting to the drywall side and now it is a huge mural of color and paint.  I hope to get more pictures up on the net for everyone to see sometime.  Oh OH, there are all kinds of windows in it, and they all open thanks to Doug Davis my neighbor, who donated them to me.  When I was finished I ended up with a cool room that occasionally leaks in the winter.  As for a tip to building a treehouse, be sure to include enough of a slant on the roof so that the water will run off.  I didn't, and I am paying the price!  
If you want this story for some reason, here it is in a text file to download: treehouse.txt


by Corbin Dunn
corbin@cruzio.com