Tree Houses within Reach

30 Lofty Cabins, Playhouses, and Getaways You Can Actually Build

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By Derek Diedricksen

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This lively showcase of 30 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—and prove 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 Deek 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.
 

  • "A wonderful reminder to never underestimate the joyful, magical powers that come with inhabiting a treehouse!"​
    B'fer & Ka-V, The Tree House Guys
  • "Deek makes construction fun, and within reach for those of us who don't own a hammer."
    Kirsten Dirksen, filmmaker YouTube/*faircompanies

On Sale
May 13, 2025
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Storey
ISBN-13
9781635868302

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Derek Diedricksen

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.

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