My parents had built a tree house for me on my 15th birthday . I can see it from my window and its just a few steps away from our backyard. It came into creation in the beginning of the summer, and all summer long I had the privilege of watching them build it.
My neighbors helped them build a platform around two big pine trees. The tree house was set really low. Just 120cm/4 feet of the ground.
I'm amazed at how it has grown. There result is nothing like the rough little box you imagine when someone mentions a tree house. It is chaotic, organic and intriguing.
At one place the kids raised a 8 foot wall, 3 feet across, reaching towards the sky. Then between the two trees they placed a plank, just to nail up an old carpet there, dividing the platform with a wall and letting the mat occupationally function as a tent against the rain.
On one place on the platform they added a inclined plane of planks meeting the floor, I have no idea why they done this. I can only guess. My guess at the moment is as some sort of pillow perhaps?
The original platform is slowly expanding, with planks just put on top of the original platform, with end poking out out further into the air, and then nailed into place. At five different places, on top of the platform an beneath it there random pieces of railing around the structure, or the original structure.
I love my beautiful tree house. Thanks to my mom and my dad, I can have a small house for my own from now.
