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 Hi All. I'm building a second story, and the pictures will come soon! Here is my floor layout. Sign My Guestbook This first picture is what you see from the side of the road. If you look carefully, you can see the stained glass windows in the door. Also, the walkway bridge from the ground out to the trees is apparent. |
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And now (while the ton of pictures below are loading) here is the story of the treehouse for you to read: |
Finally! New Pictures and descriptions
I scanned these pics that I took a week ago just today (June 23, 1997). When I got around to saving them w/ Photoshop as jpegs I found out that my cool Pegasus jpg saver wasn't working. I had to use the photoshop default jpg saver and it produces really big file sizes. Sorry about that...I hope to fix the sizes to be smaller very soon..
...corbin
This is my bed...notice the chair. It is from a van. My high school auto shop teacher, Mr. James, gave it too me. It is pretty nice.
The sink. It has the abolone shell for my soap. I did all the plumbing myself, and the thing has just finally stopped leaking! You can see some of the artwork on the walls done by me and my friends. Also, there is a cupboard built into the wall that opens.
Here is a general view of the treehouse. I am standing on top of the stairs. You can see my computer where I am typing this right now (it is a Gateway...which are a good brand BTW). The rug is new; it used to be pink but it got ruined by the rain and my mom had been given some new rug so I put it in. As you can see, the left wall is coverd with some wood paneling that was given to me.
Here is a closer picture of my computer. This picture didn't turn out too good so the scan also was kinda lousy. The cupboards were given to me by Randy Smith, who also happend to be my Calculus teacher in High school at Aptos High.
This is a picture of the right hand wall. You can see the artwork on it. I did some of it, but the SWAN was done by Lindsay Swan. I don't know what she was thinking, but I put that piece of wood there to cover a window that I accidentaly broke (i swung open the door and it hit a railing that I had just put in on the outside).
This is a picture looking back at the stained glass windows on the door. me and Chris Howland did that. The pink rug still resides on the stairs, and you can see the redwood tree in the corner.
A picture of outside looking at my treehouse. A stump is hiding half of the door. You can see the green saw and the 'gong' which was given to me as a joke by my extra lame little ex-ex-girlfriend jessica something.
Here are some pictures from underneath
You can kinda see the plumbing and the way that I attached the house to the trees.
Another view of the way my house is attached to the giant redwoods that surround me.
This is looking at the base of my house. You can see the black power cord and the white drainage pipes. The posts (which I put up way more than I think I really needed) are redwood, also. There were leftover from when we (my parents, as in 'we') built our real house and had cut down small trees on our property. They give added support.
The trees you see when looking out one of the windows and downward.
Below are some way old pictures which I scanned.
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This is a picture of the fridge | This is the "NGK" Window. All the windows are on hinges and open up |
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The fridge now resides in my dorm room at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and contains such wonderful things like soy milk for my Cinnamon toast crunch or O.J. for smoothies that Tom and I enjoy after or before some weight lifting. It also houses the frozen berries (i love raspberries....and mangos) that we use to make the smoothies. On top of it is the blender that used to be in my treehouse. They are being used quite frequently now and in a little while they will be returned to home for the summer. |
Below you can see the processes that I went through of adding to the treehouse
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 This is before I had the stuff on the walls to make it look pretty...as you can see I used multiple materials for building the wall, thus saving money.
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Some quick treehouse stats and questions that I get asked a lot: Maximum Height (on the far end): 25 feet Age of Treehouse: 5 years Age when I built it: 14-15 years Type of trees: Redwoods Do I have floor plans: No! Do I live in it: yes, i do right now (during the summer of 97) Who else has lived in it: Keoni + his lizards, Greg 'Grumpy' Nitzel, and corbin This is the oldest real treehouse site on the net! (and one of the few) How do you make a treehouse?: With common sense and a lot of nails. Send me email with any questions that you might have. If you have a treehouse, let me know because I want to start a treehouse collection on the web. I have a scanner and I can scan pictures of your treehouse and write a description about it and stuff. Just let me know!!! laters, corbin |
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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 mushrooms 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 extension 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. 
