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2013/08/01 by: Sarah

Indoor Tree House, The Big Reveal!

playroom
indoor tree house fun 6

BOO-YA! It.is.finally.done. Yes, the magic tree house is complete and let me tell you, it is well used and well loved. Most families try to find indoor activities for the winter, but in the desert it is so blazing hot we need indoor retreats in the summer. This tree house is the solution a gagillion times over!

For a full breakdown of the details of the tree house visit this post. Thanks so much for visiting!

Remember this? The epiphany to just jump in:

glory of a kid's fort!

I stewed over the plans, mostly how to build it, enclose it, make it safe, and make it look, well, not ridiculous. One evening at a baseball game I drew this out on a paper:

plans

And the idea seemed to take on steam. Here is what the room looked like before:

before

And here are a few pics of the tree house after:

indoor tree house finished

indoor tree house fun indoor tree house fun 3 indoor tree house wild and free indoor tree house lost in a good book indoor tree house exploring indoor tree house fun 5 indoor tree house book indoor tree house finished front

Over the next few days I will post on separate parts of the house that were mini projects themselves like the platform, swing, rock climbing wall, shelves, slide… and maybe even link it up and cross my fingers really tight. Mostly, I hope this tree house pushes you over the edge to do that project in your house you have been wanting to do for oh so very long!

Happy Creating!

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Comments

  1. Becca says

    2013/08/01 at 10:59 am

    This is seriously brilliant!!! I’ll be voting!!!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      2013/08/01 at 3:50 pm

      Thanks Becca, we seriously spend hours of play in that thing!

      Reply
  2. Jenae says

    2013/08/01 at 2:35 pm

    How tall are your ceilings? I would love to do this in our basement, but I’m not sure if the ceilings would be tall enough. 🙂

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      2013/08/01 at 3:49 pm

      Thank you for your question! We have 9 foot ceilings and the bottom of the loft portion measures 53 inches from the ground. I will be posting next week on all the dimensions, I hope that would be helpful! btw, I just checked out your website and I love it, so happy you stopped by!

      Reply
  3. Carolynn says

    2013/08/01 at 5:01 pm

    Are you kidding me?! This is AMAZING!!! I am so thoroughly impressed; my kids are mostly too old for this now, but I’ll bet you they’ll still be jealous!!! I’ll vote for you too!

    Reply
    • Cyndi says

      2013/08/02 at 12:27 am

      I am awestruck. SO fun!

      Reply
  4. Lisa says

    2013/08/01 at 5:05 pm

    All I can say is HARDWARE!!!

    Cody

    Reply
  5. Mike says

    2013/08/01 at 9:41 pm

    this is amazing! Definitely one of the seven wonders of the modern home. What a haven for kids.

    Reply
  6. Naomi says

    2013/08/01 at 10:52 pm

    I’ve seen this for real and it is fabulous! I am constantly amazed at my daughter in law Sarah!

    Reply
  7. Lisa says

    2013/08/02 at 7:37 pm

    You are amazing Hardware, it is darling!!!

    Reply
  8. SANDRA says

    2013/08/31 at 11:04 am

    Sooo cool. Thanks so much for sharing your talent!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      2013/08/31 at 7:12 pm

      I am aghast. Thank you! It was a fun project and is so loved by the boys. I am constantly amazed by your posts and projects, I am so flattered you would think this was cool. Thank you!

      Reply
  9. Lorene@Remodelaholic says

    2013/10/08 at 9:39 am

    Hi Sarah,
    I work with Cassity over at Remodelaholic and we LOVE this! Such a great idea for hot summers or cold winters! I just emailed you about being featured, but my messages have been getting caught in spam filters lately so I wanted to drop you a line here to make sure that you got my email. Hope to hear from you soon!

    Thanks! -Lorene

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      2013/10/08 at 10:38 am

      Thank you! The treehouse is the gift that keeps on giving!!!

      Reply
  10. Priscilla says

    2014/04/24 at 4:46 pm

    Whats the name of the green paint u used in this project??

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      2014/04/25 at 11:06 pm

      Hi Priscilla, I used “dried leaves” by Clark & Kensington Paint. You can read a little about the paint here http://iamhardware.com/tree-house-enclosure/. Thanks for the question, I’m glad you like the color!

      Reply
  11. Andy says

    2014/11/20 at 3:29 pm

    This is awesome. I think my boys would love this. I don’t really have a good place that I want to attach it to my wall. I was hoping you may have a work around on how to make this a stand alone tree house. Maybe some how add 4×4 posts or something?

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      2014/11/21 at 2:47 pm

      Hi Andy, This would work if you had a wall to attach the widest part of your tree house to (the 8′ side, NOT the 4′ side) If you have a wall like that let me know and I will send you some instructions. My boys looooooooooove it. One is reading up there as I type. Thanks for the comment!

      Reply
      • Andy says

        2014/11/21 at 3:46 pm

        Thank you for the ideas and reply. I might be able to make it attach to a wall. I was try to avoid that only because we would be putting it in our “formal living room” that is really just the toy room for the boys. I kind of thought I could make trees on all sides to make it enclosed and then put 4×4 Under each corner of the loft instead of attaching it into the wall. Do you think that would work for this?

        Reply

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