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How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts
A treehouse is a wonderful idea, but how in the name of creation do you actually build one? In this delightfully illustrated handbook, David Stiles, the unofficial world grandmaster of the treehouse, shows how.
Not assuming anything about the treehouse builder, Stiles starts with the how to nail, how to buy wood, what kind of screws and nails to use.
Then it's on to an A-frame design so simple that it can be built in a weekend out of four sheets of plywood, followed by lean-tos, a tree hut, and a Tarzan-style jungle hideaway. There are also forts of every description, including a 21-foot-tall lookout tower modeled on one George Washington built to keep an eye on the redcoats.
Stiles also adds a design for a snowball catapult, an igloo and even a Nerf-loaded cannon.
Written for children, with an adult peeking over their shoulder, Stiles's TREEHOUSES, HUTS, & FORTS is a dreamer's handbook, offering practical results.
Not assuming anything about the treehouse builder, Stiles starts with the how to nail, how to buy wood, what kind of screws and nails to use.
Then it's on to an A-frame design so simple that it can be built in a weekend out of four sheets of plywood, followed by lean-tos, a tree hut, and a Tarzan-style jungle hideaway. There are also forts of every description, including a 21-foot-tall lookout tower modeled on one George Washington built to keep an eye on the redcoats.
Stiles also adds a design for a snowball catapult, an igloo and even a Nerf-loaded cannon.
Written for children, with an adult peeking over their shoulder, Stiles's TREEHOUSES, HUTS, & FORTS is a dreamer's handbook, offering practical results.
96 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2003
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August 11, 2019
Great book. Lots of neat ideas! I wish it had more treehouses and treehouse info, but whatever. It’s still good! Now if I just had a tree I could build in...
March 19, 2017
This lead to wholesale consumption of house plan books at age 11 or so. Also a very basic elevated triangular platform I built. (It seems to me I built it myself, but much-older-me is dubious.
December 30, 2009
Awesome book! Great for any boy!
March 9, 2015
It had awesome easy or hard to make tree houses, and more!!!!!
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