Top 8 Most Amazing Tree Houses

Tree houses are buildings constructed among the branches or next to the trunk of one or more mature trees, and are raised above the ground.

Tree houses can be built for recreation or permanent habitation. As a kid, its the sort of thing you’d love to have but rarely have the knowledge, practicality and persistence to create a decent, secure example, let alone one which has been uniquely designed.

Well, the FreshHome blog has posted the 8 of the most amazing tree houses ever built. I posted the Japanese examples on my other site OneInchPunch.net, but this one below is a rather funky design, which sticks out in a forest, but to my mind still works.

This tree house is called a ‘Free Spirit Sphere’ and is designed by Tom Chudleigh. Its an eco-friendly living quarter that was created to co-exist unobtrusively with its forest environment.

Wooden spheres are built much like a cedar strip canoe or kayak, suspension points are similar to the chain plate attachments on a sailboat and the stairways hang from a tree much like a sailboats shrouds hang from the mast.

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