This is a video of how I built a wendy house for my kids out of old pallets and a few sheets of external plywood. I couldnt afford to spend a few thousand quid on one so I built my own out of materials I managed to lay my hands on. I built it in January and Febuary 2012. I am not a Carpenter or Joiner and didn’t really have any experience working with wood but the whole thing cost me just over a hundred quid to make and half of that was the cost of the paint. My brother helped me build it and since it was built my kids and their freind’ have had hours and hours of fun playing in it.

I have also built my own garden pub and here is the link for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0nY…

I have also built my own garden bench out of old pallets here is the link for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqMdX…

I have also built my son a car garden toy storage box out of pallets here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLCM4…

For more videos around the area where I live and other projects I have done visit my channel.

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The Pittsburg Pennsylvania company Lilliput Play Homes creates custom designed play houses that can cost as much as your car and may even rival your apartment. The gorgeous mini homes have windows, electricity, if you want even running water. Laaadeeedaaa. But seriously I think I want to live in one of these.

http://goodcoshow.com
http://lilliputplayhomes.com

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/208453… Jeri Wakefield always wanted a special getaway as a little girl. When she became a grandmother she decided to give her grandkids the memories she always wanted as a little girl. This incredible tree house is a story of love, family and finding a home for things other people no longer value. Architect James Curvan shares some of the secrets of how he built this amazing treehouse

.http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/208453…

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Treehouse architect Alex Shirley-Smith wanted to create a portable treehouse, a kind of ready-made, floating shelter that could be assembled in any backyard, wood or even city streets.

In 2010 Shirley-Smith released several tree tent prototypes inspired by spiders’ webs. “A spider always uses three anchoring points and the web finds its own position in space that’s a circle in between any of those 3 points. So as long as you’ve got 3 anchoring points this tent will find its own central position to create its own shape inside that triangle. The whole thing is sort of taken from spider’s web technology or you know, what exists in nature. Biomicmicry.”

After refining 11 prototypes, Shirley-Smith and partner Kirk Kirchev finally released a production model tree tent- the Tentsile Stingray. Using just 3 tree straps, 2 poles and one fly sheet, the Stingray will shelter up to 4 people in mid-air. It takes about 10 minutes to set-up and a few minutes to take down. And best of all, it is one size fits all.

The tent can be used as a camping alternative- to keep you comfortably suspended above any animals, bugs or uncomfortable rocks-, but the design could also prove the basis for a new type of eco-village. Kirchev dreams of one day creating a community of (much larger) tensile structures where portable villages could be mounted and disassembled in a day, leaving little impact on the forest floor.

Tentsile: http://www.tentsile.com/

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In 1974, fresh out of the army, Michael Garnier went to rural Oregon to try to make a living off the woods. He tried making furniture, fences, pole barns and selling organic, psychedelic picture propellers (to see Fantasy Flakes), but finally it was a treehouse that got him all the attention.
Modeled after the treehouse he had once built for his kids, his first treehouse B&B was completed in 1990. Today he has 9 treehouses for rent, 20 staircases, 5 or 6 bridges, several platforms and zip lines for rapid descent and at least one fireman’s pole. Some of his treehouses even have toilets, running water and showers, though he warns guests to “stand when they flush”.
Over the years, Garnier has become legend in his industry and helped invent a better way to build a treehouse. Instead of bolting wood to wood (i.e. beams to the tree), Garnier and his colleagues at the World Treehouse Conference (an event he used to host) developed a way to attach steel bolts and cuffs to the tree.
Dubbed the Garnier Limb (or G.L.), this open source design can support 8,000 pounds. Garnier sells GLs of all different types as well as plans to build your own treehouse. His DIY treehouses are for 12 foot trees ($150) and he sells about 30 or 40 plans per year.

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