Stop Everything, Check Out this Real-Life Brambly Hedge Treehouse

Combine our love of treehouses with our love of teeny tiny stuff and you’ve got our undivided attention. Throughout winter, there’s been one Instagram account that’s had us hanging on its every post. For the past seven months, Catherine Lenoir, a miniature hobbyist and artist based in France, has been building and creating her own…

The Lost Treehouse Tribes of the Rainforest

Until 1970, they were unaware of the existence of any people on Earth besides themselves. Hard to believe with such extensive views from their 140 foot high tree dwellings, but when you’re living in one of the least explored jungles in the world, these things can happen. The indigenous Korowai tribe have been building their…

A 1970s Hippie Commune turned AirBnB Escape

Hippie house-hunting is one of my favourite past-times on the internet; searching for a piece of that free-spirited way of life that us city folk long for. Today I discovered a historic art studio in California’s wine country that’s reinvented itself as a cozy AirBnb escape for those seeking a nostalgic bohemian paradise. Aren’t we all?! The…

Peter Pan’s Hideout is Now Available to Rent on AirBnB

Once upon a time, there was a house in the trees, surrounded by the lights of the forest fairies, where the lodgers never grew up… and it came with wireless internet for a minimum two night stay on AirBnB! Okay so Peter Pan may not exactly be renting out his Neverland lair on AirBnB but there…

Treehouses are Having a Moment in Travel. Here are the Most Epic.

It’s the crown jewel of any kid’s backyard, park, and middle school daydreams: Treehouses. For being something so utterly simple – it’s just a house with legs, amiright? – never cease to spark a sense of wonder in us, and luckily, we’re not alone. From the far reaches of a tribe in Indonesia, to a…

Summer Is Short, Spend it on a French Farm

It’s easy to forget in the ever buzzing Paris, but France is, at its core, a country of farmers. They have more cheese varieties than they can keep track of, possess one-third of all agricultural land in the EU, and have a reality TV show called L’Amour est dans le pré – literally, Love Is…

When Americans Lived in Tree Stumps

There are trees, and then there are trees out west. “Ancient sequoias,” “Mammoths,” or “Big Trees,” as John Muir liked to say – the nicknames varied, but the trees’ contribution the grandeur of the storied West Coast remained the same. Pioneers worked, breathed, and seriously lived in the darn things. Improbable today, but common in…

The Forgotten Treehouse Bars of Bygone Summers in Paris

There was once a place that drew crowds of Parisians away from their grand boulevards and sidewalk cafés to rediscover their inner child, wine & dine in chestnut tree houses and celebrate summer like Robinson Crusoe. Perhaps you’ve heard of a “guingette”, a sort of French equivalent to a summer hoedown, traditionally located next to the river and particularly…

The Treehouse that Nobody Wanted

It could be the house of a pirate king who keeps his treasure buried in the waterbed beneath, but this plywood palace built around a broad-leafed maple tree in Redmond, Washington belongs to a regular Dad who built it for his kids. Sadly, all three of Steve Rondel’s children grew up before he could ever…

Here’s a Menu of Tiny Houses for your Weekend DIY Project

Assuming that you’ve already mastered the art of IKEA furniture assemblage, here’s something to take your DIY talents to the next level. This is “France”, a tiny patriotic shed that can be virtually snapped together in 3 hours and costs $1,200, complete with three zones including the “night zone”, the communal area “day zone” and the red-coloured “heating…