hi guys welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of unique spaces there's just
something about tree houses that brings out the inner child in all of us right well today
we're going to take a tour of a treehouse Resort that makes you feel like you've been
transported to Neverland with 12 unique tree houses hanging Bridges and a chance to soar
through the trees it's hard to believe that this is a place that you can actually go visit
in Oregon and in this video we interviewed the Builder who's going to explain some of
the challenges he's faced building tree houses for over 30 years and why pieces of his design
have become the industry standard they ordered us to tear it down but I did a stress test
I put 66 people up in this tree house two dogs A cat and we're not sure if the hummingbird
lighted or not but through this I was able to get a permit finally and if you like videos
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hello my name's Michael I am the owner of this Resort one of the largest concentrations
of tree houses in the world come on in let me show you around [Music] thank you
[Music] the big thing with this beautiful area is finding a way to make a living people
ask me how I came up with this idea and I say I tried a lot of things this one worked
so I started off with a cabin and horseback riding and nobody came so then I decided to
rebuild the Treehouse that I built for my kids years ago everybody thought I was crazy
but it worked and so I built another one and then that money came back so I built another
one and it's grown into this world famous resort [Music] the first tree house that I
built is actually this one right here and that was the one that I built for my kids
I built a platform up there but I used to come out here and look at that spot what it
would look like and I learned a lot more about how to work with wood and everything so I
built this first tree house in 1990 and I first built it to last 20 years in its last
lasted 33 years and now I'm building tree houses the last 50 years I've done a lot of
engineering or pioneering on basically how to attach tree houses to trees there's a lot
of work that's been done on that you know there's a lot of Hardware that I've helped
develop I used to be the first place you could come and stay in a tree house but not anymore
they're they're all over the place thank you [Music] it took eight years though to get
my first permit for a treehouse schools on Farmland had an exemption for permitting didn't
have to get approval for it you could just do it so if I had a school and I was teaching
about you know tree houses and stuff like that I was permitted to have the tree house
so it was a tree-room Schoolhouse Suite hi my name is Janessa I am the Treesort manager
here at out and about very large property about 30 plus acres most of that is for the
horses and we do build all in the same General Eight acres for the tree houses so we do have
15 different units that we book out on the property 13 of those are actual tree houses
right now we're standing out in front of the tree room Schoolhouse Suite let's take a tour
inside
[Music] the suite is so popular because it is one of the tree houses that actually have
a bedroom that closes off from the living space most of our tree houses are single room
units and this one has all the amenities that you need all the bells and whistles this one
in particular will have a barbecue grill on the porch it has its own kitchenette and then
it has a full bathroom with a clawfoot tub and then the nice stained glass that looks
out over the horse area
it is a good tree house for a family of four and you could actually fit six in this tree
house with the Loft space [Music] so here we are in our kitchenette of The Suite of
course the mini fridge microwave toaster oven nice little hangout spot a beautiful window
that opens up and lets the air through and then additional seating in the living space
as well [Music] so this is the bathroom it's very quaint but it's very cute it has the
claw fit tub the sink and then above the bathroom is our Loft space it is good for two sleeping
bags so if you have a couple kiddos perfect and they love it up there
[Music] oh [Music] when I first came here I didn't know how to work with wood at all
I learned more about how to build when I first built the tree house it was really kind of
funky and just nailed to the trees but after living here and watching I saw that trees
and metal got along really well the tree would engulfed the metal tree houses will fall apart
after a time they either pull apart or the wood rots away from the tree so what I did
is I attached metal to the tree and then the wood to the metal so then there's no wood
to wood and that's enabled these three houses to to last a long time and that was one of
the first steps on longevity of tree houses but then the county was forcing me to get
a permit and they were giving me a hard time on that how do you verify how much they can
hold I mean with this tree house in 1994 they ordered us to tear it down but I did a stress
test I put 66 people up in this tree house two dogs A cat and we're not sure if the hummingbird
lighted or not but it it survived and through this I was able to get a permit finally
trees have a sort of a safety factor a healthy tree will have a say a 50 safety Factory as
long as it's healthy and not too old you know it doesn't have root rot you check for all
these things if you build a treehouse in it you don't want to decrease that percentage
by more than like 15 percent people ask me all the times what do you do about a trees
grow how do you adjust for that trees don't grow like that they grow out from the chips
but they get bigger around at the spot where you attach them I developed a Garnier limb
which was a bolt that went into the tree that enabled the tree to get bigger and not touch
the wood turns out has become the industry standard [Music] so now we're up here on our
suspension bridges and treeways this is about 35 feet off the ground a lot of our popular
tree houses are up here because they have partial Plumbing this one here is the pleasant
tree and I'm gonna show you it [Music]
so this tree house is a quaint little tree house it's really cute for a family of four
we got our single wide benches here with mats for a couple kids and this is a popular Treehouse
because of the plumbing we have our sink here in the living space and there is a bathroom
with a shower above that you're going to find a loft space it does have a queen mattress
on the floor up there which is good for a couple adults
everybody has something in common here I love the Treehouse people that come here are special
sort of people too this isn't the Ramada it's a place where you can let your kids run free
they can fall down they can get hurt but they're not going to die [Laughter] [Music] this is
another one of our tree houses on the suspension bridges it's called the forestry and it's
about 35 feet up let's go check it out [Music]
these taller tree houses we do have the Hoist pulley system for your luggage it helps out
for our guests there will be a a bag at the end there or Carabiner they can clip your
luggage straight to and then hoist it up once you get up here
another little quaint Tree House of ours this one is good for a family of five it has three
single wide benches and the queen bed it does have the toilet and sink here in the tree
house there is this curtain for your privacy and then you can do your showering on the
ground level we do have shared bathrooms on the ground level foreign
tree house is the one I'm usually working on but I guess in my classic type would be
the single tree tree house as long as you have a big enough tree and luckily here in
southern Oregon we got big enough trees [Music] so here we are down on the ground level the
common area we have our nice fire pit we do provide wood for our guests up to the guests
to start the fire keep it going most of our lower tree houses won't have the plumbing
in them so we have several different bath houses on the ground level with toilet sinks
and showers and all of them Our Guest kitchen Pavilion on the ground does have the propane
grills and flat tops outside we do provide dishes utensils and then inside there's other
cooking facilities
so like I said we are a bed and breakfast the breakfast we have staff that's been working
for us 15 years plus doing breakfast it's all homemade that's for spring summer and
fall Seasons there's so much to do on the property though alone our ping pong table
corn Hall over here on the stage we do have the horseshoe pit area there's a couple hammocks
out volleyball net and then we do have lots of things that the kids can do on the grounds
we have some swings we do have we call it a trampoline that's really fun for the guests
to get out there and jump around on we do have activities for additional charges or
horseback riding their one hour guided trail rides we do have zip lines out in the back
Meadow they run a couple different courses
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I'm slowing down but I like building tree houses I have another piece of property which
I'll be building other tree houses on putting a handicapped Tree House on on this piece
will be the sort of the crown jewel of this piece of property [Music]
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