Tree Houses within Reach (Paperback)

Derek Deek Diedricksen

ISBN 10: 1635868300 / ISBN 13: 9781635868302

Published by Workman Publishing, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. This lively showcase of wildly different and eclectic tree houses will inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of building a tree house of their own. The tree houses featured in Tree Houses within Reach range from simple platform structures to raised office spaces, tiny houses to playhouses-proving that a tree house can be creative, useful, and beautiful while still being affordable and accessible to those with modest building skills. With extraordinary photos and fascinating profiles of the stories behind the builds, author Derek Diedricksen has curated this collection of tree houses with his trademark eye for quirkiness, thrift, and reused materials-featuring everything from a robot-themed tree house with salvaged windows to a 38-square-foot pod that relies solely on trees for support. For those eager to start their own projects, Diedricksen leads the reader through the most important nuts & bolts of tree house building and offers tips and suggestions throughout. The book includes step-by-step photographs of a basic sample build. An inspirational book featuring 30 eclectic, inventive, and affordable tree houses from the charismatic author of Microshelters. Includes basic building tips and strategies and step-by-step photos of a sample build. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781635868302

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tree Houses within Reach (Paperback)
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635868300
• ISBN 13: 9781635868302
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Get inspired by this collection of inventive, real-life tree houses, plus learn to build your own with step-by-step photographs and instructions for a basic build to customize. 

The tree houses featured in Tree Houses within Reach range from simple platform structures to raised office spaces, tiny houses to playhouses—proving that a tree house can be creative, useful, and beautiful while still being affordable and accessible to those with modest building skills. With extraordinary photos and fascinating profiles of the stories behind the builds, author Derek Diedricksen has curated this collection of tree houses with his trademark eye for quirkiness, thrift, and reused materials—featuring everything from a robot-themed tree house with salvaged windows to a 38-square-foot pod that relies solely on trees for support. 

For those eager to start their own projects, Diedricksen leads the reader through the most important nuts & bolts of tree house building and offers tips and suggestions throughout. The book includes step-by-step photographs of a basic sample build.  

About the Author

Derek “Deek” Diedricksen is the author of Micro Living and Microshelters. He has hosted, built, and designed for the HGTV series Extreme Small Spaces and Tiny House Builders, as well as for the DIY Network, and has just released a feature-length documentary film, The Box Truck Film: Building a REUSEful Home. His work has been featured in numerous places in print and online, including NPR, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Times, the Wall Street Journal, Make magazine, Yahoo.com, Apartment Therapy, Treehugger.com, and Design Sponge. Diedricksen has taught hands-on building workshops around the United States since 2010, runs the YouTube design channel "RelaxshacksDOTcom", and professionally builds tiny houses, tree houses, and backyard offices for clients. He lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts.