Build
Your Own Treehouse
A Practical Guide
by Maurice Barkley
Softcover
215 x 255mm
120pp
Published by Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., New York USA
R.R.P.$19.90
ISBN 1-4027-3777-7
Extract from back cover of book:
What's the first thing you think of when anyone mentions the Swiss Family Robinson? The tree house, of course. You might forget many of the other details of the novel, but whether you read the story or saw one of its many translations into film, you are sure to remember the tree house.
We all seem to have an affinity for tree houses, but how many of us have ever tried to build one?
Maurice Barkley, the author of Build Your Own Treehouse certainly has. At the time of writing his book, Maurice was 73 years old. He started to build his first treehouse when he was 65.
Now, he has a whole village of them, all interconnected, weaving in and out among some dozen trees with bridges between them. There's Miss Mary's Teahouse, the Shadows, the Juice Box Express, the Wishing Wheel... places to play games, take refreshments, observe the neighbourhood or simply rest.
He has made his treehouse village into a kind of mystical adventure, but his book is far more practical than that suggests.
He shows how to construct a treehouse from its initial design and the book is full of diagrams and photos illustrating every step of the work involved.
If you have a few trees in your yard, this might be the time to consider whether they could support not just a treehouse but a new way of life.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial
Contents
Inspiration
Choosing a Tree
Safety
Tools and Materials
Start Building
Building the Platform
The Platform in One Tree
The Platform in Two Trees
Building Access to your Treehouse
The House
Unintended Consequences
Metric Equivalents
Index
