As a child, you nailed lumber up the old oak in the backyard, or someone did it for you, or you just daydreamed about it. You set a plank in two “Y’s” to escape and watch the squirrels, and enjoy your lunch al fresco. You founded a club with your friends and clambered up to hold secret meetings among the branches, sealing important oaths with pinky promises.
Read MoreSai Baba once said, “Life is a song; sing it… Life is a game; play it… Life is a dream; realize it.”
Read MoreStained by our team with iron, the color and mottling on the cedar shake siding gracing this treehouse adds to its vintage effect.
Read MoreHow do you include the natural world around you in your life?
Read MoreWhat’s the best way to climb a tree? By walking up the custom-designed stairs inside your very own wilderness treehouse!
Read MoreAs the trees dream with their roots deep in the soil, we wish you the quiet and rejuvenation of this Winter season of serenity. Whether you’re celebrating up in the branches or down on the earth, enjoy it with family and friends. Happy Holidays!
Read MoreCrafting and weaving mountain laurel railings is one of lead builder Adam Laufer’s many specialties. For some treehouse designs, these woven branches are just the thing to add texture and interest to decks and bridges.
Read MoreWhen you were a child, did you ever stick a few boards up in a tree and call it your hideaway? Did you ever create a secret social club with your friends? How about mud pies with all the trimmings?
Read MoreWhat do you love to do when the weather cools and the trees begin to lose their leaves? Wouldn’t you love to spend time in a treehouse--one that belongs to you, fits your personality and needs, feeds your family’s imagination and enhances your own property so you can use it when, and how, you want?
Read MoreAwed and bewildered by the enduring strength of the swimming hole features we built for Debbie on her Blue Ridge Mountain property, the repeat client called after an awful storm to pay us a very high compliment.
Read More“What types of trees should I look for on my property?” We field this question a lot. Given the lush and diverse forest areas here in Western North Carolina, there are a number of appropriate tree types that support building a structure among the limbs.
Read More“This treehouse will certainly outlive me!” Connie proclaims with a smile, proudly gesturing to the custom project that World Treehouses completed for her.
Read MoreIt’s been a tough couple of years for us all, and we hope you are well and finding peace! To re-center and fall in love with our world again, imagine yourself in a retreat like this gorgeous, vintage, rustic treehouse we designed and built in the remote Panthertown wilderness area of western North Carolina.
Read MoreDuring planning, our client Debbie loved how our lead builder Adam Laufer listened to her and skillfully incorporated each of her requests and requirements into the design of her treehouse. She said of the team, “Of course, they have to design like engineers because it has to be structurally sound for a very long time!”
Read MoreGazing out at the surrounding forest from within her gorgeous custom treehouse, client Debbie reflects, “This was a really old industrial window that Adam worked with me to incorporate. In fact, it was originally in the [Grove Arcade](https://grovearcade.com/)!”
Read MoreThere is a kind of rustic beauty that comes when you get a good, quality piece of lumber. And almost nobody knows that better than the clients at World Treehouses of Asheville, NC, because these treehouses come from the forest itself.
“The staircase is one of my favorite parts,” Debbie says of her live-edge banister and steps. The breathtaking staircase features already-existing trees that were repurposed to give the treehouse even more of a connection with the surrounding ecosystem. This is far from a prefabricated do-it-yourself project; this kind of creativity and skill only comes when you hire a professional, like Adam Laufer and his team.
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