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A tree house in the park of the Château de Langeais in the Loire Valley, France. A tree house, tree fort or treeshed, is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level. Tree houses can be used for recreation, work space, habitation, a hangout space and ...
His latest book, titled Be in a Treehouse, details the technical aspects of building in the trees along with showcasing treehouses from all over the world. In 1997 Nelson co-founded the Tree-House Workshop. [7] In 2006, Nelson opened Treehouse Point, a bed-and-breakfast composed entirely of treehouses, near Fall City outside of Seattle, WA. [6]
In 2002, Shafer co-founded the Small House Society along with Greg Johnson, Shay Salomon, and Nigel Valdez. [31] Salomon and Valdez subsequently published their guide to the modern tiny-house movement, Little House on a Small Planet, in 2006, and Johnson published his memoir, Put Your Life on a Diet, in 2008. [32] [33]
A cottage is a small house, usually one or two stories in height, although the term is sometimes applied to larger structures. Cape Cod-style house or Cape: a style of a double-pile one-story cottage; low, broad with a steep side-gable roof to which dormers are often added to create a second story (in some locations, referred to as 1.5-story)
The 97-foot-tall (30 m) tree house and church was supported by a still-living 80 ft (24 m) white oak tree with a 12 ft-diameter (3.7 m) base, and relied on six other oak trees for support. [5] He built it using 258,000 nails with a nailgun, and about 500 pounds of penny nails driven by hand. [ 3 ]
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Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
The area down the Back Woods, below the treehouse, where children will find a Bear Cave, an art table, a mud kitchen, and musical instruments inspires nature play. July, 2011, the Bosarge Family Education Center opened – a LEED Platinum structure and the greenest public building in Maine, planned to achieve net-zero-energy status. This ...