A dream treehouse

I've always wanted a treehouse when I was a child but living in a city made it a little difficult. Instead, we would built forts, tents or just crawl under the bed to play. It's weird right now but back then we really loved having those hideouts where nobody could find us. We could stay there for as long as we wanted. Telling horror stories and feeling like these were the safest places to be.

But what happens if you're an adult and still dream of a treehouse? Living among nature has always been such a wonderful thing to me. I don't feel like a city girl at all. Always craving for nature, woods, grass, berries, animals, fresh air, calmness... everything that living in a city prevents you from.

I did a little web research for treehouses all over the world and oh my what I found. I hope you enjoy these homes just as much as I did! :)

Safe Arbor in Switzerland.


Trillium. This treehouse seems to be a bed and breakfast house somewhere near Seattle. You can read more about it and a few more houses at Treehouse Pont. How cool is that?

The enchanted forest.




A modern, pitched roof treehouse.



A treehouse morning.


A dream treehouse.

Those are just a few of many treehouses. You can find some more on Inhabitat, Weburbanist, Baumbraum or follow my new board on Pinterest - Treehouses.

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Beauty Balm

oh WOW! These are so beautiful! I had a wee treehouse with a rope ladder when I was a kid (just a few planks of wood fashioned round the tree trunks) - it was heaven! x

Kari @ bite-sized thoughts

Ah, these are amazing! I did a post on tree houses a while back because I am like you and have dreams of having one eventually - but you turned up far more than I did :) I am now dreaming of these!

anon

what happens when the trees sway and try to rip your house apart?

Chris

@Carlos My family is very involved in a treehouse resort in Southern Oregon. Yes they have to be Permitted and up to building codes.

brad francis

where are you in southern Oregon?  I grew up near Talent, Ore.  We built one in a Madrona tree as kids’    Cheers, Brad Francis

Arianwen

This is a beautiful house! I want to live there! I stayed in a tree house once in Thailand, but the steps were really scary and it didn’t have a toilet!

Ayi Bunbun

I have the same opinion with you Arianwen, The problem of tree house is toilet and danger from thunder attack.

Thundergod

According to a recent study, there are zero recorded instances of thunder attacking a treehouse.. Or anything else for that matter

Julius

And, even if you have to die from a thunder bolt hitting your tree house, it’s a bit better than from a stroke caused by diabetes :p more natural let’s say. certainly more heroic too

matthew

thunder attacks my dogs…and my bunny…and fish…cat….I on the other hand love it,need to move somewhere where I can hear it everyday.may be able to sleep each day.

doug

thunder is the sound caused by lightning… you special olympians

murph

yes   thunder is not a strike it is a sound caused by a strike of lightening…  live in paranoia all ur life of the things that might happen and miss out on so much   just saying…

Yesi

:) It’s always been my boyfriend’s dream to live in an elaborate tree house, with a bridge that connects to another little shelter high in the tree tops. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s going down.

Franc

I really like this thought. I guess we all need a secret place, to hide our thoughts, ourselves..the materialization of it just changes with the age.
Love all those three-houses ! Thinking about having a trip there for a while !

Ed

Like a bird on a hidden branch, safely able to see, hear and smell the beauty. Looking at those houses brought me back to wonderful days spent with my cousins many years ago.

tsering dhondup

i trying to own this type of house. i mean tree house.

@howeser55

these aree soo cool!
follow me on twitter @howeser55
i like posting cool things on my twitter

Dean

I always wanted a tree house when I was a kid…I never thought about actually living in one. These are really cool!

JiniOnline

Like the pics a lot…Wonder how do they maintain them….

Blogzello

Omg! I imagine that the Burrow, Ron Weasley’s house in Harry Potter would be look like that! Beautiful!

cdollarhite92

I am so jealous, i always thought my treehouse was cool, man i was missing out.

cdollarhite92

I am so jealous, i always thought my treehouse was cool, man i was missing out.

Pascal

The houses look fantastic! However, perhaps it’s only a fantacy to live in the forest and in the houses like this.  There will be a lot of troubles, bugs, high moisty, snakes, .......⊙﹏⊙b

yonan

Hi there, I’m an architect and since I had 5, I built houses and waste wood in the neighborhood, I think this has always been my passion ... build my dreams

Tom Poland

I wrote a novel in which one of the main characters, a reclusive white voodoo priest, lived in a large, fortified and camouflaged tree house. He lived on the last wild island off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina and he lived for one reason: to save the last island from developers. An excerpt from Forbidden Island—An Island Called Sapelo: Rikard started the engine and we headed toward his hideout. As we approached, the lodge grudgingly revealed more of its shape—a round, domed structure of massive cypress boards rigged with netting, broken branches, and leaves. Camouflage covered everything, even the razor and barbed wire barring other watery avenues to his stronghold.
Leafy camouflage netting covered the air above the lodge, built around an oak, and anchored against four large cypress trees. Beneath the house, three support poles driven into the earth rose like painted like cypress trunks. Spanish moss draped the house.
Rikard lived in an arboreal lodge—a fortress thirty feet off the water in the midst of a wetland forest. The whole effect reminded me of a banyan tree.
... “You like it here. I can tell,” said Rikard. “Well, there’s no place like home. Welcome to Conjura. He pointed above us into the canopy surrounding his fortress. “Now up there, time moves according to ancient rhythms. Up there I live in an easygoing way. It’s a quiet world far removed from televisions, computers, and phones.”
“You make it sound good,” I said.
“Oh yes, good indeed. Up there I can hear the sun burning. The winds bring me a thousand scents … blossoms, tree ferns, mosses, flowering plants, and I can watch butterflies and birds like I’m one of ’em. I wouldn’t live anywhere else. No way. Here, I am at one with nature.

Kate

I have just ‘stumbled upon’ your post.  What a beautifully designed blog you have.  Tree houses too!  Heaven!

Lineslinger

The only structure pictured that has a chance of longevity is #3, glass can be replaced after a hail storm. A foundation structure will tear itself apart if based on anything other than the main trunk.
A defrocked tree or a stump base upon which your dream house is built has a short life.
Heavy weather and tree growth can change your “one with nature sanctuary” in a hurry and make you one unhappy victim of nature.
Voice of experience speaking here…...been there done that.

Tom

Lineslinger: I have no doubt you are right but I wonder if you have ever seen some of the massive cypress trees down here in our southern swamps. They are as massive as bridge abutments and seldom succumb to the elements. Of course I was f=dealing with fiction anyway. Thanks for the comments.

Samuel Jeffery

Incredible!  These seem straight out of a fairytale.  When I was growing up one of my best friends had the coolest tree fort which we would often sleep in at night.

boo

http://www.youtube.com/user/JealousToothbrush?feature=g-all-u
check these guys out super creative

Veronica S

Wow.  These tree houses are amazingly beautiful.  I think I could retire in a tree house. I just got to find a sturdy tree and hope that the bones are healthy to climb the stairs.  ;)

Muhammad iftikhar

wow it’s too much beautiful.
golden dreaming.

Pandrang Row

Have you seen the tree houses at the Vythiri Resort in Kerala, India? I’m sure you’d love them. (I’m not advertising - just information)

FAMA

They’re wonderful, except that I’d have to deal with insects if I got one

Phil

I remember thinking “I could really live up here” when our tree house was in the local paper. 
  From the three of us,  “thank’s for going there”

Jose

Oh my god…all of them are great! Ive never been in a tree house before, bits pretty much an american thing, but nos i want to go in onde of those…badly!

MissKathy

We had a little house we played in as kids but it was on the ground and we would play with our dolls and do all kinds of things in there. I remember one time we took the hotplate out there and cooked and watched tv at night.

Kelly

A wonderful example of combining nature and convenience.  So inspired.

A Stranger

Happily I say, and happily I will be, to spend a holiday in a tree house. I do intend these words, not just let them escape my mind.

Daniel Gerlach

THOSE ARE THE COOLEST THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN IN A TREE!!!!!! WMA HA HS HA HAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Anthony Kozuh

Stunning: You have brought childhood dreams to life. I remember watching Swiss Family Robinson, and you have brought this to life. Thank you. I enjoyed this very much.
Anthony

Liz Karschner

Definitely any grownup still stuck in their childhood’s dream. I’d so love to have a treehouse like one of these!

David

check out treetops in kenya a hotel in a tree. stayed there when i was a kid

Anthony Kozuh

David can you send us a link to the hotels in a tree top…
Thank you have a wonderful day David

Bethan

I tried to make a treehouse once out of stacking-boards, by balancing them in the tree, and it actually worked, but my mum made me take it down because it was damaging the tree aparently :(

Olivia

Wow! That is so creative and fun!!but…what about bugs,storms?:/

Michelle

I would love to have a treehouse someday.

vishal

This is really a great way of living , so close to nature and man kind . Away from artificial and ceramic world . Thanks for the research . Hope i could have place like this in India . And again thanks for sharing this beautiful world .

Jivka

Woooowww!!! This is such a great idea! It looks so nice, warm and sweet! Brilliant!

Lumaca Moderno

I have always wanted a tree house, I don’t think it will ever happened, but your article make me feel like I own one, thanks for sharing :)

Hillary

My cousin found this on Stumbleupon - I love it!  I’ve been obsessed with treehouses since I was a kid.  I’m 28 now and would absolutely LOVE to visit these.

Anita Mac

I love them!  I could totally relive childhood dreams and camp out in these tree houses!  A mini escape from the world!

Lazy Sammich

So cool! These tree houses are indeed beautiful!

Lazy Sammich

So cool! These tree houses are indeed beautiful!

Lazy Sammich

So cool! These tree houses are indeed beautiful!

Lazy Sammich

So cool! These tree houses are indeed beautiful!

ApekshaK

Wow!!!....I wud surely want one of these :)

Kalualei

WoW! .. These are AMAZING? Absolutely awesome!

Nikkie

I wish I had a tree with a cute house too.

Caryn

These are beautiful! But how does one get bags of groceries up there???

Vicki

Absolutely beautiful! I’m not sure if I’d want to live in a treehouse, but I would sure love to take a week-long vacation in the summer in one of these!

avaje

oh may gush thats so amaizing ivE always wantedto DO that and this has just given me motivation to live out my dreams to live in a tree….

nishalay

These are absolutly fantastic!!

peter

what happens after a few years when the tree grow but the foundation posts stay don’t?

deepanker khosla

this is the prettiest tree house ive seen ever ...damn its creativity at is zenith :)

Amber

This is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally want to go there!

person with no friends

Awwwww…Will somebody go with me?

Olivia :D

I’ll go with you!!!!!
u r so awesome!!! i

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Sam Wendelin

Iam a Pipe welder on the offshore oil platforms out in the gulf of mexico,when I go to work by either helicopter or boat I stay on the platforms for even up to 12 weeks at a time or as little as 7 day’s it often remind’s me of a tree house out on the water ,,,a tree house that rock’s with the current in somtime’s a thousand feet of water, like a tree that rocks in the wind,.....I love it!

Nan

I love these photos :) Ive always wanted a tree house like this!

Harry

WOW!! I want to live in these tree shadows…

Fede Hall

I am amazed, they are so beautiful
To look at in photos, I can only imagine the beauty of theses homes in person. Thank you for sharing

Rio

I really like the tree house. unfortunately still not popular in Indonesia…hiks

Sasha

sooo beautiful!!! makes me wanna build my own hahaha

anonymouse

We were meant to live among the trees. Too bad we’re chopping them all down.

zoolame

all of these tree houses are better than my fucking house!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim

amazing stuff :P me and my girlfriend want to live in one…

hello

these are amazing. I, myself did not have one during my own childhood.

Godfrey

It’s really wonderful.  I would also love that kind of lifestyle if at all any chance comes ma ways.

mahmou elkhayal

woooooooooooooooow ! very nicce pics wood houses

Lisa

These treehouses are cool!  I wish I had a good tree in the back yard to attach one to:)

Godfdrey

Hahaha, Lisa, just plant one and it will be ready in the next 10 or 15 years.  You look for these fastest growing species.

Craig

They all look brilliant, I wonder how they handle strong winds as some of them are attached to several arms/branches.

Barbie

Wow .. what wonderful pic’s of these tree house’s .. at a younger age it would be awesome to enjoy them N set-up house-keeping in one .. wondering just how safe they would be tho, anyone know?

shabbydoooo

Where can I buy one that is already made like this/these???

aoming

waaaa..so awesome..i get a new inspiration ;)

baby

Amazing… always dreaming to spent days on these treehouses . Nice place for couples.

mickdipin21

i want one hahah maybe later in life

Antonio

I love the treehouse in Sweden the spiral staircase does the trick I wonder who these architects are ... those people are lucky to have that in thier backyard.

Taylor

I would live in one for the rest of my life.

Taylor

I would live in one for the rest of my life.

Audrey

BEAUTIFUL! I would be happy with a place like some of the places above.

james mcbride

thanks for sharing the photos of fantastic beauties all ways loved tree houses and these are so special   thanks again

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