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Summary: 5 stars would have be my choice if I did not read well ...
Review: ... previous review "...what about the trees"! When I read this sound review about nails and trees freedom I discovered I did not read well this book. I read it again. Globally, it's a great book. It tells you technically how to achieve your dream. But it lacks this deep sense of freedom that would embrace trees freedom as much as our own needs. When our kids will build new cabins in Chateau Bois Briand trees we will tell them not to use nails anymore ...
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Summary: Our inspiration for building !
Review: As soon as we acquired our virgin woodland property, we dreamed of building a treehouse. After extensive searching (pre-internet days) we found this wonderful guide. Even tho we were novices, we could see the endless possibilities and proceeded with our own treehouse. It's now completed, and we are delighted with our success thanks to this guide! treesnakes
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Summary: Great Inspiration!
Review: For anyone interested in building a tree house - this book provides great inspiration. The central section detailing a very special tree house in British Columbia is especially fascinating. I built a tree house for my son this summer.
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Summary: Tree Huggers Beware.
Review: Great Book, with lots of great pictures. Some technical stuff also. Another book that has a little bit on building tree houses is called "Shelters Shacks and Shanties by D.C. Beard. I love tree's myself but for you tree huggers complaining about a few nails, sheesh, your houses are full of lumber. Look in the walls at the studs, under the floors at the joists, kitchen cabinets, dining room table and chairs, bedroom furniture, etc. etc. so don't worry about a few nails in a tree eh, they love the iron in them anyhow!
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Summary: From the heart but what about the trees?
Review: I bought this book as I always loved climbing trees in England as a child. This book hit a cord straight in the heart ! if you love trees and feel a deep connection to them this book will hurt like hell ! The poor trees have to take nails and drilled holes all over to support our homes. Unlike the birds we yet again end up destroying. Um I guess this isn't paradise for the trees any way you look at it. But lets not become the chains that literally bind them. This book inspires one to feel for the trees freedom not my own.
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Summary: tree houses and nails
Review: I have just purchased this book and am eagerly awaiting it's arrival after seeing a few photos of what was inside. However, I am also a lover of trees and hate the nails. My husband built one once using very limited screws in the actual tree by making most of the strength in the support posts on the ground. I also thought of just building a self supporting house on high stilts from the ground on up to the tree house, situated between two tall trees where it would need little or no screws/nails to go into the tree. You could still essentially be "living in the trees" I was just visiting someone's website where whey used "tree braces in stead of lots of nails. They clamp around tree branches and are foam lined on the part next to the branch. They are loose clamps that are super strong but can rotate slightly so there is no pressure on the tree branches. They are loosened every year to allow for the expansion of the branches. There are usually ways to have what you want and respect nature both if you think things through carefully.
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Summary: This book brought back a lot of childhood memories!!
Review: I loved this book! When I was a kid, my best friend Kathy and I shared a tree/club with her brother and his friends, called the Monkey Club. Of course, it was quickly determined that the boys and girls could not co-exist in the Monkey Club, so Kathy and I formed a rival club(the Foxy Lady Club-hey, these were the 70's!) in a huge oak not far from the boys. Kathy and I would leave secret messages for each other, stuffed inside one leg of pantyhose and tied to a limb, so it swayed in the breeze. I can't remember how many times we had to defend our treehouse from marauding bandits(a.k.a. her brother and his no-good friends). This rivalry, sometimes friendly and sometimes not, lasted until it was determined by our parents that the original Monkey Club was off limits, due to the fact that the tree had grown into some power lines. Since, we had grown a bit older, and also because there were no more viable trees in the area, our collective interest in treehouses waned. Reading! ! this book helped me realize that those were some of the most magical times of my life. I haven't been to my old neighborhood in years, but I think I might take a little drive and see if our treehouses are still there... Thanks for the memories!
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Summary: From the heart but what about the trees?
Review: I READ THIS BOOK AND I LOVED IT. YOU'VE NEVER READ A TREEHOUSE BOOK UNTIL YOU READ THIS ONE.......................................A MUST READ BOOK!
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Summary: EXCELLENT TREEHOUSE BOOK FOR BOTH KIDS AND PARENTS
Review: I READ THIS BOOK AND I LOVED IT. YOU'VE NEVER READ A TREEHOUSE BOOK UNTIL YOU READ THIS ONE....................................... A MUST READ BOOK!
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Summary: Interesting at a high level
Review: I was looking for something practical to help me design and build a tree house for my 5 year old. This is a great book if you want to consider "possibilities". It helped a little, as well in terms of providing conceptual designs. It was not as good in providing detailed plans on how to build a specific tree house. If you are an experienced builder you could probably take what they have here and develop your own blueprints. If you are a novice,and need detailed plans this book will not get you there.
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