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Entering via a cavernous opening in the trunk of a giant tree you emerge into a massive room, festooned with all manner of jungle vegetation and softly contoured timber furniture. Exotic pelts and rugs abound, for warmth, colour and comfort.
The kitchen "walls" comprise a selection of fruit and
nut trees, ripe for the picking and cooking.
Bedrooms are carpeted with soft mosses and draped with fragrant forest flowers and blooms. You can swing by lithe liana from lounge to boudoir, should you desire.
The bathroom holds the obligatory waterfall, solar-heated, with a natural spa and sunlit tanning deck.
There are no internal stairs in the house, just massive swinging vines and landing spots in all the right places.
Feed the native birds and animals from your hand. You can check out any time you like but you'll never leave.
A whole town of them
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[angel, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Order Your Treehouse Here
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Ships to the Rainforest of your choice anywhere in the world. Be sure to also check out the Pirate Ship Treehouse. [jurist, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Then McDonalds goes and buys the block next door |
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Sounds a lot better than my freezing, spider infested domicile.+ |
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...and then Starbucks opens up at the bole of the tree. |
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Except that I think you should have to hack your way through dense jungle with a machete to get in, croissant! |
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I've always wanted a house where the distinction between indoors and out is somewhat blurred or wholly absent. |
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Dr, then you'd like this: the latest trends in Amish lifestyle down the road from dad's place are to avoid building codes by building a barn and sectioning off part of it as the 'house.' |
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Terribly difficult to keep clean, though. |
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//I've always wanted a house where the distinction between indoors and out is somewhat blurred or wholly absent.//
Is [DrC] Wonko the Sane? |
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Cleaning would be a breeze if you let
the insects and mosses do the work for
you. + |
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+, pond instead of a bathtub anyone? |
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Not that hard to keep clean. Just enter into a pact with a colony of driver ants. |
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Use Banyan (Bodhi) trees as the basic structure. Over time, you will be able to grow extra rooms and have a ready supply of replacement vines. Added bonus is the sacred nature of the Banyan - you can't help feeling good when you are near one. |
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<aside>For a great vision of how organics can form the basis of an entire technology including formation of housing structures, read Harry Harrison's fantastic "Eden" trilogy.<aside> |
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//Then McDonalds goes and buys the block next door// Wow, tasman, I thought *I* was cynical! |
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Eating out of the guest's hand, the zebra glanced nervously at the exotic, colourful pelts adorning the room .... |
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[Consul]- I've seen porches built around banyan trees, but never an actual house. Problem is, most places where banyan trees grow are places prone to flooding, hurricanes, giant insects, and alligators or crocodiles. |
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Giant insects? //moss grass will soon turn to vile, moldy, mildewy, odiferous...//? Crocodiles and/or alligators in the jungle? |
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Damn, I love it when people not from the tropics let their imaginations run away with them. There's never anything scary in temperate or arctic zones, is there? Uh-uh, no way, no how, not ever... Safe as houses... No bears, wasps, snakes, malaria, nuclear weapons, high tech weapons labs... |
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you live in the tropics? Z. |
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Not any more. I grew up there, though. The tree-climbing crocodiles, concrete-boring mosquitoes and pig-swallowing spiders drove me out. |
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I had a close shave, where two female mosquitoes, each about 18in long, cut a hole through the metal roof of my car and attempted to lay a few thousand pea-sized eggs in me. I swore never to return. |
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where in the tropics? sorry - your life story is fascinating... |
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[wagster]// Wow, tasman, I thought *I* was cynical!// |
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Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. |
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You can buy a beanbag, not 6 blocks from where you live. Are you sure you want to play this game? |
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<stonehenge>18" [Z]!! I don't believe you! It was a cider advert wasn't it? Or was it for some stupid 'Alcopop'?</stonehenge> |
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No. It's real, I tells ya! |
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[evilmathgenius] In parts of South Asia, single bohdi trees, centuries old, provide multi-roomed shelter for many families. Of course, they don't see it as a treat to live in a living house. Family status is reflected by how close you are to the inner core. I guess our North American and UK readers are having trouble imagining just how big these things get. Will search for a link. |
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[zanzibar]- I used to live somewhere that had alligators, fairly mean insects, hurricanes, and yes, banyan trees. Its called south Florida! I'm not saying that more temperate regions don't have their share of ills. I'd still pick tropical zones any day.
[consul]- I've seen them in person quite often. I have no doubt that the space could be found to make a habitation out of one. |
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Instead of a home office you have to settle for a branch office. |
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