Decidedly adult treehouses feature running water, electricity, air conditioning and sky lights.
Kit and Karen Sickels’ whim resulted in a 980-square-foot treehouse with plumbing, electricity, heat and air conditioning, 10 feet off the ground, on their northern San Diego County property. It also features a brick fireplace.
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Andrew Fisher wanted his Napa Valley treehouse to “fade right into the trees,” he says. He hired a professional arborist, who spent four months working on the 400-square-foot pinetop hideaway.
Fisher’s Napa Valley treehouse has running water and electricity. He and his partner host cocktail parties there, and sometimes offer it as a romantic getaway for newlyweds. Fisher, an interior decorator, built some of the “make-believe” furnishings himself.