I came upon this almost surreal tree house today called the HemLoft. At first I thought it was a concept drawing, but it is real, this amazing house is so well done with great wood finishes, a high level of skill and a gorgeous surrounding. I hope they try to work on the kitchen more, with such amazing wood working a Coleman stove in the kitchen just doesn’t feel right.
This charming treehouse is actually a hotel room, for 300 pounds you can stay here, price includes dinner, breakfast and a few other things. I wasn’t able to get many details other than it is 13 feet off the ground and is comprised of a deck, bedroom and bathroom.
One of my goals in life has been to go back to Costa Rica and spend several months just hanging out, learning spanish and teaching English for free. I had thought I wanted to spend my time on the beach, but I might just venture inland to Finca Bellavista which is a mountain retreat set high in the canopy of the rain forest. A series of tree house hotel rooms high up in the trees. What I really like about Costa Rica is that an American can safely drink the water there, with little worry of getting sick. You can enjoy all their fruits and it is a very stable country, it doesn’t even have a standing army.
Here is another neat room in the sky. This tree house is designed so you walk among the tree canopy to get to the house, you then drop down a ladder into the tree house. The tree house is actually suspended from the deck you walk to it on.
The site of The Cabin is chosen with regards to our ideal: high ground with a steep slope, providing a great view of the valley of the Lule River.
When visiting Harads to view possible sites, we formulated an idea around a horizontal approach: a footbridge leading to a spacious deck. It offers the potential for future expansion, with additional tree houses and footbridges (as well as viewing platforms and places to rest). The basic shape of the deck comes from the supporting trees in the slope. The actual tree house is suspended from the deck. This will hide the volume of the building to a certain degree. The deck is slightly separated from the building in order to make it appear smaller and also to allow the building its own expression.
We played around with the angles and rounded off the corners lengthwise. It now looks like a capsule or cabin, an expression we feel comfortable with. While discussing the façade we decided to try an unconventional solution: engineered fabrics used on lorries and trailer covers. Manufacturers in this line of business use fasteners, fixtures and techniques that would be suitable, as well as intriguing, for this tree house.
A while back I posted about this neat mirrored hotel room that was seated in the trees, almost blending in, check it out here. But at the time it was simply a concept drawing, while many concepts don’t come to fruition, this one actually did!
It brings about a good question, Should your home do its best to blend in, to let nature be the focus, not the home?
Should your home do its best to blend in, to let nature be the focus, not the home?
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