# I want a treehouse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224 "2004-11-29T21:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/1 "2004-11-29T21:55:16Z")
I want a treehouse. I have this great old tree, maybe an oak, with huge horizontal branches, that’s just begging for a treehouse. If I had a treehouse I could spy on my non-existant neighbors, or draw up the ladder (because it would have to have a draw-up access) and laugh when my dogs couldn’t figure out how to get to me. I could take a book up there and read. I could lie on my back and look at the stars, which are brighter here than anywhere I’ve ever been. I need a treehouse. StG ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/2 "2004-11-29T22:01:48Z")
Hey! I want a treehouse TOO! I wonder if my condo association would object if I started building one on the cherry tree outside my unit… ---
**Author:** ![siberia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/siberia/32/9129_2.png) [@siberia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siberia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/3 "2004-11-29T22:29:43Z")
I have a terrible memory about certain things so I may be wrong, but wasn’t/isn’t there a doper that posted about building a major treehouse? I have always wondered how it turned out. Oh, I want a treehouse too! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/4 "2004-11-29T22:48:19Z")
> [@siberia](#): > > I have a terrible memory about certain things so I may be wrong, but wasn’t/isn’t there a doper that posted about building a major treehouse? I have always wondered how it turned out. > > Oh, I want a treehouse too! 🙂 Was it this one? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=194863&highlight=treehouse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=194863&highlight=treehouse) The little boy who lives next door to me has one. (And a slide, trampoline, rope bridge, goats and goodness knows what else 🙂 ) When I was young I had a cardboard box, but it was lots of other things too. I’m a bit too old for a treehouse now though unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/5 "2004-11-29T22:58:48Z")
I keep thinking now of “If I Had A Million Dollars” by the Barenaked Ladies: “I’d build a tree fort in our yard! (If I had a million dollars…) You could help, it wouldn’t be that hard! (If I had a million dollars…) We could put a little tiny fridge in there somewhere…” I say we all pitch in, build a treehouse somewhere, and christen it the SDMB Treehouse, or something cooler than that. ---
**Author:** ![siberia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/siberia/32/9129_2.png) [@siberia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siberia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/6 "2004-11-29T23:03:02Z")
That’s it **Vetch**! I wonder how **Phlosphr’s** treehouse turned out. You’re never too old for one. Some dear friends of ours built one in their backyard/jungle. It has three stories with winding staircases, a rope swing, dumbwaiter, hamock and slide. On the second level there is a solid oak dining table big enough to seat 12. It’s quite a site! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-treehouse/277224/7 "2004-11-29T23:14:56Z")
**Vetch** - I’m 43. And female. But I still want a treehouse! I’ve read through **Phlosphr’s** thread. I wonder how his project turned out? If I build it [sub]they will come[/sub] I’ll post pics. I have so many other more important projects, though. Enlarging my horse’s paddock and fixing up his stall in the barn, putting central heat & air into my 150 year old farmhouse, insulating said farmhouse. But some day… StG