{"id":644,"date":"2010-06-03T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2015-07-05T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T22:48:16","slug":"our-treehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/our-treehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Our treehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend was a three day weekend, and I had lots of plans to get all sorts of tasks done around the house.  Until my seven year old came up to me on Saturday morning and asked me to build him a treehouse.  Little did he know that many months earlier I had scoped out the tree in our back yard for a treehouse and I had even drawn up plans and figured out all the materials I needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-663\" title=\"treehouseplans2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans2-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"treehouseplans2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans2-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-664\" title=\"treehouseplans1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"treehouseplans1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/treehouseplans1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a photo of the tree I used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"01-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/01-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"01-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/01-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/01-leucht_treehouse-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/01-leucht_treehouse.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a photo of the treehouse platform under construction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-653\" title=\"10-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"10-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10-leucht_treehouse-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10-leucht_treehouse.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a photo of the completed platform with flooring planks installed and a hole for the trap door:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-655\" title=\"20-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"20-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20-leucht_treehouse-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20-leucht_treehouse.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here is the final product complete with railing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-656\" title=\"26-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/26-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"26-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/26-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/26-leucht_treehouse-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/26-leucht_treehouse.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reverse angle of final product:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-657\" title=\"28-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/28-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"28-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/28-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/28-leucht_treehouse-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/28-leucht_treehouse.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a photo of the kids enjoying their new treehouse:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-659\" title=\"29-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/29-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"29-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/29-leucht_treehouse-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/29-leucht_treehouse-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/29-leucht_treehouse.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The boys got out their play tools and pretended to help me build the treehouse:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-660\" title=\"30-leucht_treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/30-leucht_treehouse-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"30-leucht_treehouse\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/30-leucht_treehouse-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/30-leucht_treehouse-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/30-leucht_treehouse.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This took me the whole three day weekend to complete and it was a labor of love.\u00a0 It also took me four trips to Lowe&#8217;s for various materials.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very pleased with the results and the boys seem to love it.\u00a0 The biggest problem for me was the deer flies that hang out in the backyard.\u00a0 They were all over me all during the construction, and I have welts all over my arms and legs to remember the experience by.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For anyone who wants more details, I have posted detailed high resolution photos and construction instructions on my website here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/kurt\/treehouse\/\">http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/kurt\/treehouse\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend was a three day weekend, and I had lots of plans to get all sorts of tasks done around the house. Until my seven year old came up to me on Saturday morning and asked me to build him a treehouse. 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