{"id":3548,"date":"2007-03-20T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/20\/3548"},"modified":"2007-03-20T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T12:08:46","slug":"another-life-out-on-a-limb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2007\/03\/another-life-out-on-a-limb\/","title":{"rendered":"Another life out on a limb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Treehouses that are used as full-time dwellings are a real rarity.<\/p>\n

When Kendall Thurston, a 35-year-old cabinet maker from New York visited his parents in central Florida, he couldn’t resist building a treehouse in a giant oak tree there, 40 feet up on the banks of the Suwannee River. During the late Spring floods, the river surrounds his home and he has to reach it by boat.<\/p>\n

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The house simply rests on the tree limbs, floating freely, and preventing it from being torn apart as the tree bends in high winds.<\/p>\n

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He got fresh water for cooking and washing from a neighbours tap, which was hoisted up from below.<\/p>\n

Inside views:<\/p>\n

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\nLeft: His view looking down on the kitchen, from his sleeping loft above. His stove and fridge were fuelled by propane.
\nRight: The wood stove in the corner warmed his home during the cold winter nights. His bed was nestled in the loft above. Visitors were encouraged to write on the walls.<\/p>\n

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\nKendall built this house on his own in 6 months and managed to live there for 4 years, before his oral lease with the then landowner fell through. Sadly the land was sold to a developer, and despite efforts to buy the lot where the tree grew, he was evicted.<\/p>\n

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\nA friend of a friend who knew a helicopter pilot got help to have his house hoisted and flown down the Suwannee, while Kendall followed in his boat. His treehouse was safely landed in a nearby cotton field, 3 miles away. I really hope that one day, someone nearby will offer him another tree to hoist his treehome.<\/p>\n

All images are from TREEHOUSES<\/strong><\/a> by Peter Nelson. Photographs by Paul Rocheleau. This wonderful book is filled with so many inspiring hand made treehouses, some more beautiful, some higher, some even smaller than this one, but Kendall’s is still my favourite.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Treehouses that are used as full-time dwellings are a real rarity. When Kendall Thurston, a 35-year-old cabinet maker from New York visited his parents in central Florida, he couldn’t resist building a treehouse in a giant oak tree there, 40 feet up on the banks of the Suwannee River. During the late Spring floods, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}