Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales

by Pete Nelson and Gerry Hadden

Book Overview

Remember the view from atop a tree? You could survey the landscape like a monarch, escape your parents' watchful eye, and let your imagination run wild. Well, just because you've grown up, it doesn't... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140259988
• ISBN13: 9780140259988
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

One of the best books on this topic

A very good book to take a look at. Quite professional and quite easy to read.

Awesome book

A previous reviewer said that this wasn't for beginning treehouse builders. I don't think that is the case at all. I bought this book because I wanted to explore attachment options, and it had a chapter on that topic. There was so much more inside this book. There is a detailed description of a massive treehouse they built. Even though I never plan to build such a thing, the read was wonderful. I was going to put a treehouse in our back yard. After reading the section on picking the tree, I realized that it probably would have killed the tree completely. My tree, which I saw as huge and tall and a great tree-house tree turned out to be very sick, and the book even pointed out why. This is the kind of book that makes you want to sit down with the author and have dinner. His writing style is very conversational, easy to follow, and hard to put down. I wish I was fortunate enough, as those in the book have been, to have him come and build my treehouse. This book is a great read and great value. I hope that he writes more of his treehouse adventures for us to enjoy.

Highly reccomend for any treehouse builder

I live in a treehouse (corbin's treehouse), and I used a lot of techniques in this book when building my house. excellent book, and highly reccomended.

HOME TREE HOME IS A BLESSING

FABULOUS BOOK FOR THE BEGINNER WHO IS LOOKING FOR THE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON "HOW TO BUILD A TREEHOUSE"- IT EVEN TELLS YOU HOW TO PICK THE PERFECT TREE. A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE THINKING OF TAKING ON THIS KIND OF PROJECT!!!!

I Built My Wife A Dreamhouse- Twice

I wish I had this book the first time around. The tree house I built for my wife was tragically destroyed late one summer. We chose a tree on the basis of its strength. It happened to be one of the maple trees flourishing on the edge of our property in Syracuse, the heart of central New York. Unfortunately, there was a mammoth storm on Labor Day in 1998. The treehouse was destroyed, as was the tree and the car beneath it. This book was an incredible asset in the rebuilding process of our dream tree house.