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Re: Some Great Tree Houses. .
Sat, October 10, 2009 - 8:30 AMwww.youtube.com/watch - Tree House Living (For Adults) -
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Sat, October 10, 2009 - 4:39 PMin terms of design i think i would like the steampunk style for my tree house. .
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Mon, October 12, 2009 - 5:12 PMThis is really awesome, mabey if people really liked the idea of living in the trees then they wouldn't be so quick to cut them down. -
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Mon, October 12, 2009 - 5:13 PMExcept I doubt many would actually consider it unless they could design larger houses up there. -
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Mon, October 12, 2009 - 10:02 PMnow the houses that i linked to look ultra modern, which is fine. . i would prefer something that looks ultra woodsy, like elves houses in LOTR.
however, what is exciting about these modern designs is that the concept is spreading.
I think a tree house would make a nice second home on the same property as your "winter" home. . . just a few feet away you climb the steps up to the tree house in good weather, and you still use the kitchen and bathrooms, etc in the main house. . .which for me would be an earthy hobbit house. -
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Mon, October 12, 2009 - 10:09 PMNo kidding huh? Here too on the hobbit house, that's where I got the idea for the round door, among others. I wonder if the tree house could be effectively incorporated into the main house? Mabey as a special room, for me an art studio probably, but I could see others using one as an office or guest house, or even for the kids! But then couldn't really use sending them to their room as punishment... -
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Mon, October 12, 2009 - 10:41 PMHAHA!! not quite. . .maybe the house should also have a cellar ( dungeon ). . . oops! -
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Mon, October 12, 2009 - 10:43 PMI think a long wooden "bridge" from the upper deck of the house, that leads to the tree house several yards away would be nice, but it might be just an added expense. . .I kind of like the idea of walking from the house in a private manner to the tree house.. -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 8:47 AMLove the dungeon and the bridge ideas, as for the bridge just being an added expense, I don't think it would cost any more than a staircase that most the treehouses sported, especially if your into the rustic rope bridges that of course have trap boards which break underfoot if anyone tries to access your secret treehouse. Or, if you're still cincerned about the cost and keeping it private, zip-lines are always fun! Or a Tarzan-rope-vine. -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 12:15 PMOkay, my dream house looks like a low castle with one northwest tower on the north and east, and has a high earthen berm on the south and west. . .a greenhouse runs around the east and south corner that also serves as a heat sink for use in winter. .
This would probably be made of rammed earth and straw bale. . from the upper deck above the root is the wooden bridge leading to the tree house, summer home. A small screened in porch is nestled beside the tower on the north side. . .there is a large basement beneath the house that has an additional exit to the outside. . .pv panels are on the top of the tower for electrical generation. . .and a small wind turbine fills in, as well. . -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 12:44 PMDon't forget the ramparts and drawbridge! -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 12:44 PM*snark* and Dragon! -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 2:07 PMWell a moat might be nice, but oh those darn mosquitos ( they have no manners! ) -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 5:09 PMTell me about it! Guess that eliminates the possibility of sharks with laser beams attatched to their heads. What about a dry moat? You could put some sort of nasty in there. -
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 5:46 PMwell I would fill it up with dry river electric eels for both security and extra power generation. . .in a pinch they can churn butter too! -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 6:58 AMHahaha! Nice! I'll have to think of something wicked cool and unusually useful to trade you for some... -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 11:28 AMDon't offer me anything that can churn butter because I've got that covered, and besides I don't do dairy! Although I do like goats!! -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 4:02 PMOh yeah! Goats are awesome!! Angora goats so you can make nice sweaters and socks,...letsee, the eels have electricity covered... How bout giant goats that can plow and be ridden and make milk, and shed their horns every year so you can always have cool cups without having to butcher the poor thing....AND they can be trained to attack on command, and protect a flock of...themselves...from predators....and they eat plastic and toxic waste and it comes out as really fantastic...ummm....jelly beans? -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 4:19 PMsmart brains are sexy brains!! -
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Thu, October 15, 2009 - 1:20 PMummm, whatever you're into, you still have to get the goats consent first. And I been thinking about those jelly-beans. I personally don't like jelly beans, and you certainly don't want to be eating giant goat $hit, so, as a bean, if you plant them you can grow jelly-bean-plants. Every different color of bean that grows from the jelly plant would have a different use. Obviously, the green ones would be super-nutritious, the black ones super-poisonous, the red would warm the body, blue would hydrate the body, pink would be a love pill, tan would give you an instant even tan... -
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Thu, October 15, 2009 - 1:54 PMI am just going to plant of the jelly bean seeds and then I will climb the resulting huge beanstalk and up in the clouds I will go to the castle and get the gold and wait for the giant to come down to get me. Then I will climb back up and pull up the beanstalk and live in the castle in the clouds. . .forget the Tree House.
I will leave the other jelly beans for the giant to find, or you can have them. . .either way is good. If you find them you can get your own castle if you like those sorts of stone buildings. They are a little hot in summertimes, but in clouds they should be okay. I don't know about cold in the winter up there, maybe the goat's woolen sweaters?
The giant will be signed up to play football and make a fortune knocking people down, which probably suits his personality. .
I don't care for jelly beans either, actually. . .maybe I will live in a rammed earth house, you keep the goats. . .they tell great stories!! -
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Wed, October 21, 2009 - 9:06 PMYou guys are too funny! -
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Sun, November 1, 2009 - 7:46 PM=) Why thank you! -
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Sun, November 1, 2009 - 7:47 PMHow do you mean that? "Too" funny. . .as in funnier than is acceptable? funnier than we have a right to be?
funnier than is legally permissible? funnier than moss on a rolling stone??
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