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The Tree House |
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Six years ago a storm snapped a tall beech tree in our garden where it had rotted from a dead knot. The idea came to me of building a tree house for my children on the remaining stump. Four years later a scaffold was put up without any fixed plan in mind. I started building a deck vaguely thinking of a structure that would resemble a shaggy ink cap mushroom. The rest I made up as I went along.
The round tree house is constructed of timber and plywood. The exterior of the drum is rendered with a lime earth daub onto stainless steel mesh. Because of the scale of the building the roof is thatched with fine veldt grass rather than thicker combed wheat straw or reed.
The two lead light windows are glazed with conservation glass. The doors, window and door surrounds are clad with split hazel. The wooden finial is painted with red oxide primer. The interior of the drum is decorated with oil-bound distemper and the soffit of the deck is lime washed. |
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© 2002 Paul Quinn |
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