Today, everyone wants to be closer to nature, live in environmentally friendly homes, breathe fresh air and enjoy the rustle of leaves on trees. A simple solution to all these requests, a tree house, well, much closer to nature.
Maybe in childhood you had your own staff, a cozy shelter on a tree where you could imagine yourself as a pirate, a free tramp, and just a happy owner of your own hut. Dreams of adults are not so different from children's. Of course, building a house on a tree is a problem for many, but if there is a demand, there is a proposal, in England you can buy such apartments for only 200 thousand pounds, by the way, with all the amenities.
Great Britain, although a conservative country, but tree houses are very popular there. This house in South Downs is called Amberley Castle. A little pompous name, but it’s so accepted, even the tree house they have a castle.
And this one Surrey Tree House really reminiscent of a castle. Gothic windows, a six-meter-tall tower, a spiral staircase, observation towers, in general, everything is as it should be.
Cumbria Tree House
Treehouse in British Bristol, built in an interesting style, with a thatched roof, suspension bridge made of local wood.
Fairytale Stilt Castle in Hertfordshire
Original Home in Crystal River Colorado at first conceived as an ordinary children's treehousebut the developers Evid Rasmussen and Steve Novi approached the matter creatively, what happened was liked by everyone, and the house became a place of family relaxation. The design turned out to be too heavy, so I had to strengthen it with supports, but this did not spoil the general appearance.
The original house of irregular shape with unexpected decisions in the interior really turned out to be unique, in this gallery some fragments of the work of Steve and Evid.
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The largest tree houses
The treehouse sounds nice, but there are whole houses. The world's largest ten-story Treehouse, which you see in the photo, is located in Crossville, Tennessee. The height of the house is 45 meters, the total area of 800 square meters. The numbers are inaccurate, they differ in different sources, just as it is not known exactly what inspired Horace Burges, who is not a professional architect at all, to build this giant tree house. Locals call this building the "Minister’s House", the cost of its construction amounted to 12,000 dollars.
For 11 years, Horatio built his dream, there is nothing like anywhere else in the world.
Inside the house there are a lot of passages, balconies of corridors, there is an altar, and a small basketball court. Children just love this house.
This solid house is located in Papua New Guinea, Kawenga.
The area of this building near Edinburgh is about 600 square meters. In fact, this is not just a house, but a whole complex with a restaurant with 120 seats.
Quite popular place with amazing interior
Restaurants on the trees
Speaking of catering places. The ideas of enterprising restaurateurs to attract customers are endless. Restaurant on a tree, it is of course original, but drinking alcohol sitting on a branch is risky. But everyone at the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant in Auckland provided that the dining room resembles a woven cocoon.
As you can see, it’s even spacious in the middle, only to take advantage of the amenities you have to climb down a tree.
Tree Restaurant in Japan Naha Harbor Diner. True, the tree is not real, but a skillfully made model made of concrete, but the main thing is that the restaurant is real.
Tree Restaurant at Soneva Kiri Hotel in Thailand
Service in the institution at the highest level, and literally "high", the waiters have to move around narrow suspension bridges.
Tree Hotels
Not everyone is ready to live on a tree all the time, but probably many are interested in renting a room in an original hotel and living for some time in unusual conditions.
Among the rainforest is Finca Bellavista, an entire village of tree houses.
Romantic place on the shores of the Pacific Ocean
Hotel in Turkey Kadir’s tree houses, thatched roof huts.
Hotel Huts in Francearranged on the trunks of large trees. In the photo, this is a two-room mini-hotel with a terrace.
Such a pleasure for tourists arranged travel agency Keycamp Treehouse
Hanging tree houses for tourists in Spain
Cozy Tree House Lodge in Costa Rica
The house is located in a protected forest, on the trunk of a centenary croton on the Caribbean Sea. A good place if you like real privacy, just do not be surprised if in the morning you will meet a sloth in your room and a little monkey will drag you away from breakfast.
Sanya Nanshan Treehouse Resort and Beach Club 3 hotel in China on Hainan Island
Located on the seashore
Hotel Cabanes Als Arbres in Spain, one hundred kilometers from Barcelona. This is one of the houses of the complex, there are ten in all. Although the hotel is located in the mountains, everything is done in European style - toilet, shower, pool and even the Internet.
Washington Cedar Creek Treehouse Two-Storied Hotel
Tree Mirror Hotel in Sweden
Hapuku tree hotel in New Zealand, near the city of Kaikoura. The owners of the hotel are the Wilson family, who conceived and created this project in 2003. At first it was just a guest house, the idea to make a hotel came later and turned out to be very successful.
Different tree houses
What beautiful houses on trees are, in this type of architecture there are no standards what they came up with, they did. As there are no two identical trees, so each house is very individual.
For example, Anthony Gibbon presents a tree house like this
It looks like an elf dwelling
A house can become a children's fairy tale, like this little castle in Dallas
Or this type of cottage in France, they have a holiday house called cabane, and today it is fashionable to build such estates on a tree.
Houses high in the trees
However, in some countries, tree houses were the only option for safe housing, so their inhabitants tried to climb higher if possible.
Look at these photos, it’s probably not very comfortable in such a house during a strong wind, although you can get used to everything
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A tree hut that grew on the roof of a tall building in Amsterdam. Leonard van Munster, the author of this work, seems to be a great original.
James Bond style house in Athens, designed by Blue Forest.
It looks like a modest hut crammed with modern high-tech devices
and in the middle with a cozy and thoughtful interior
House in Petaluma, California.
Missy Brown Design Family Tree House Project
You can live here - have picnics, enjoy the views of the autumn forest
Eco-friendly wooden beam house
Attractive inside and out, suitable for year-round living.
The project of the office on the tree of the English company Blue Forest.
The house is located in one of the sparsely populated counties of England Shropshire
The interior of the house is like in a real English estate, even on a tree the British know how to settle in with chic.
Project of a modern treehouse, although not quite on the tree.
More like a fantastic watchtower
The house can accommodate six people, as can be seen from the diagram, quite comfortable
And with such an interior and on a tree it will be cozy
Cozy hut on a tree
You can live on a tree in winter
You will not freeze if there is such a stove and a comfortable bed
Living room, kitchen
All made of wood
Treehouse in Belgium, the order of a large paper company Sappi, the purpose of construction, you need to understand the advertising, such as: "Although we are destroying forests, but for the protection of the environment."
Scout Tree House at the summer camp Almke (Germany)
The house consists of two parts, in one part a bedroom, in another living room
The project for children’s leisure was developed by enthusiasts with the support of the architectural agency Baumraum
Tom Chadley's famous project, spherical houses suspended on trees Canada.
Original house on the territory of the estate Pichford Hall. The tree on which it has been placed 900 years, the estate itself is almost 500, and how many years the house is not known exactly.
Modest tree house in Sweden, from afar resembles a small birdhouse. In fact, its area is 12.5 square meters, there is a small terrace, a bedroom, a kitchen, something like a library and even a toilet. Yeah, Europeans do not even want to live on a tree without a bathroom.
Here they are, houses on trees, probably, there will not be two identical structures, you can appreciate what was interesting to collect on the Internet.
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Every day someone in the world builds a tree house, so the collection will be replenished. Maybe you will have an idea for your house?
150+ photos of unusual houses
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