May 16, 2006 .There’s something primal about tree houses that enthralls children and returns adults to long lost afternoons filled with secret adventures. We’ve previously covered the exquisite ...

When life gets messy, it’s easy to daydream about leaving your typical day-to-day and escaping to a place in the woods where you can leave your troubles behind. Treehouses can offer a wonderful escape ...

July 29, 2006 — -- Actor Val Kilmer has a luxury tree house. So do Sting and Julianne Moore. In fact, more and more people are building play houses for adults in their backyards. Tree houses have ...

Every family member can benefit from these elevated (literally) backyard retreats. In an era of tree house vacation rentals and biophilic design, it’s no surprise that simple backyard builds are ...

Imagine waking up surrounded by towering trees, with birds singing just outside your window and mountain breezes drifting ...

Though it's ostensibly for the kids, the hacienda-style tree house in Bill Bost's backyard is also his secret dream come true. "I loved playing in tree houses when I was little," says the Menlo Park ...

Carpenter Joel “Bubba” Smith builds tree houses for a living. But these are not the rickety, slapped-together, sticks-nailed-slipshod-to-the- tree-in-the-backyard tree houses of childhood memory. As a ...

When you’re tired of city life — or just tired of life on the ground — there’s nothing more wonderful than scampering up a tree to your bedroom. A few lucky people among us actually get to do it. Here ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho — A few years ago, KREM 2 brought you the story of a Sandpoint man who built a tree house that went viral and was even featured on several TV shows. He has built another tree house ...

John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi should get together and build a tree house. So should Elton John and Madonna, Jean Quan and the Oakland Police Department, and everyone who has ever appeared on a "Real ...

When Jeff and Millie Baird bought a rugged 165-acre property in California’s Sonoma County in 2010, their goal was to spend more family time outdoors. So the first thing they built was a tree house: a ...