Almost a year ago I posted about the trees we were removing from our backyard (in order to replace with much more useful trees I hasten to add). Whilst most of the tree remains were hauled away to the green waste area of our local tip long ago, I kept a number of large branches with plans of one day buying a drop saw and a hot glue gun to make a treehouse play scene.
Well, good things come to those who wait and that day finally came!
Our treehouse is completely inspired by both this lovely one at Irrestistable Ideas and this gorgeous one featured on Ohdeedoh.
And all it took was some old branches, a drop saw, a hot glue gun, a little string and two self tapping hooks.
We added in our favourite animal figurines and created a cool oasis alongside with a piece of fabric and some river stones.
… to create hours and hours of treehouse fun!
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Wait till Cath gets her eyes on this!!!! It is absolutely GORGEOUS Christie. Well worth the wait and I can see many more hours of fun happening with it.
Thank you, Amanda
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
You KNOW how much I love this. I have a branch downstairs with similar dreams for it. So you got a drop saw??! Jealous. xx
love it christie – great job. This projects in my To Do list with an entire folder of images from blogland and just waiting on my dad and his handyman skills for it to be done. You have one lucky girl! PS we are a big fan of Schliech animals here too arent they great
It was sitting on my to do list for a good long time too, Michele, sometimes husbands need a little push in the right direction! LOL Dad 101 did cut the wood cookies for me (though I am sure that I could have handled the saw!) and then it was just me and a hot glue gun.
That is so fantastically awsome and inspiring! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure, Vanessa, thank you for saying so.
Fantastic! So.Sick.of.Plastic.
Well done.
We have our share of plastic too
But I do love adding lots of natural materials to our play, they are so much more open ended.
Spectacular!!
Thank you, Bron
Oh my you are a clever cookie Christie. The tree house is terrific! I especially love the little chimp sitting on an armchair up top. Very, very sweet. I don’t actually even know what a drop saw is, but maybe we need one here too!
Thanks, Sarah
Dad 101 tells me a drop saw is also called a mitre saw and is like a drop down electric circular saw.
Love it. Bet you had fun making it too
Oh wow Christie, that is all kinds of fabulous! Immy will be the envy of all her pals!
That is completely awesome! I want one for me, never mind the children!
We have been working on the same project this year. A grandfather from our program has some big pieces of wood drying at his house and we already have smaller pieces and thicker sticks. Can’t wait to put it together.
Yours look great! So simple, so much fun.
Love it Christie and as I have said before – you are very clever!
Amazing! Looks like it will bring much joy to your home! Enjoy!
Kerri
Hour and hours,that’s so true!
Tried making this for Christmas this year but it just isn’t sturdy enough for the little, clumsy hands of my girls. Need to use bigger pieces and attach them more securely.
Love the idea though!
That is amazing! I need some tree branches to make something similar for our fairy garden outside
Oh, I love it! I want to play with your treehouse!
CHRISTIE! This is fantastic. I’m in love with it. I’m thinking…how can I get my hands on some wood… I shared it on twitter.
This is wonderful! I love the primate climing the ladder! But really, I just love the whole thing. Fantastic.
Oh! My girls would LOVE that! They have a fairy house, but only use it with animals
OMG this is awesome! I’ve been eyeing off the very expensive shop bought tree houses for ages, never once thought to just make one myself! I think I might have to attempt this as a present for M’s birthday!!
This is incredible – I love it and so-so jealous! Thanks for sharing it.
what an inspiration! I love this…I’ll be hunting around for branches this week to attempt a version of it.
LOVE THIS!!! How refreshing you are! Such a creative spin on playing with sticks! Thank you for sharing : )
That is Unreal Christy! I’ve been nagging daddy Eco to make something like this for the last year or so thinking that it would be a task that required nails and screws and all those fancy carpentry things i find so frustrating. I never thought of using a glue gun! Aren’t glue guns wonderful!
WOW, this is wonderful! I’m so inspired! I’m off to go find some wood…we recently cut some of our trees back too!
This is amazing Christie. I’d love to make this for my boys birthday.
Thank you, Trish
What a great idea and beautiful creation. We saved our Christmas tree trunk and hopefully we can make something similar with that. Do you have to sand the blocks you cut?
This is amazing! I posted about this on my website for Zoo week! Thank you!
How is it that I missed this post Christie??? It’s fabulous. Well done! … Donald thinks you’re a lucky girl Immy! xx
Donna
I’ve finally got my branches…now to get to work. Will post pics when/if we ever get this project complete
I can’t wait to see, Marnee
Have some wood drying right now to have a go at making one of these. Did you do anything to seal the wood after you had glued the pieces together? I’m thinking of gluing it together and then coating the whole thing in a water-based polyurethane…what do you think?
I haven’t, Jeremy, and it has help up just fine for indoor use but I can imagine it would be a good idea to do so.
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