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childhood's first real estate deal, paid entirely in scraped knees and stolen lumber
means A small structure built among the branches of a tree, typically used by children as a playhouse or hideaway.
from A plain compound of "tree" and "house," both rock-solid Old English words: "trēow" (tree) and "hūs" (house), each with deep Germanic roots. The pairing is what's young — "treehouse" only settled into common English use within the last century or two, once tree-perched play structures became a fixture of childhood. The words are ancient; the dream is timeless; the compound itself is comparatively new.
- world's tallest
- a Tennessee one rose 97 feet before burning down
- adults too
- luxury treehouse hotels now charge hundreds per night
- engineering trick
- special bolts let trunks grow without splitting the structure
- sacred roots
- Korowai people of Papua live 100 feet up
- no permit needed
- often skirts building codes as temporary structures
treehouse hotel costa rica — lapa rios ecolodge in puerto jimenez built 16 treehouses suspended in rainforest canopy
redwoods treehouse new zealand — luxury treehouse village in rotorua with 5 interconnected canopy structures up to 10 meters high
takabisha treehouse japan — architectural treehouse in nagano prefecture designed by terunobu fujimori, sits 6 meters in a chestnut tree