The work on fabricating the columns (25 of them!), base plates, and beams has (finally) begun. We are working with an amazing fabricator, Martin Enterprises in Bailey, Colorado. They have 50+ years of experience in a wide variety of metal fabrication projects. They sent over a few pictures of the column and base plates that…
We were featured in ONEflight’s current email newsletter to their members. Here is what they said about ZenTreehouse: Inspired by a treehouse in suburban Atlanta, Georgia that was ranked #1 on Airbnb. Peter and Delinda Fatianow, with a real estate portfolio consisting of furnished rentals and nearly a decade of experience with Airbnb, have set about building…
Click here to book now! This is what we are building – a luxury treehouse in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado – only 1 hour drive from Denver. Enjoy a video walkthrough of the property – 100% architecturally correct and to scale. The outside environment and the furnishings are a good representation, but not exact.…
Our contractor is finally ready to roll and we ordered the steel for the foundation last week. The fabricator will be building the foundation frames at their shop, then bringing them to the site to weld them together. Should be an interesting few weeks to see the steel finally going up! Also, we hired someone…
Sadly, one of our treehouse inspirations burned down recently. It took about 15 minutes for the world’s largest treehouse—a 97-foot-tall wooden structure in Crossville, Tennessee, to be reduced to a pile of ash. The building was built in the early ’90s by Harold Burgess, who said in an interview that he had been called by God to…
The 25 caissons are finally drilled, set with rebar and ready for concrete (coming tomorrow- more pics after they pour). This is what it takes to hold a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1600 square foot luxury treehouse 40 feet in the air. The picture below shows how the contractors had to dig down to bedrock,…
See the little tubes at the lower left of the picture above? Those are the where they will be putting the rebar and concrete that be the foundational support for the metal beams that will hold up the house. The biggest effort with this was the surveying – to make sure all these were put…
All luxury treehouses need utilities. Water, electric, sewer and gas….and eventually high-speed internet. This post is about some great progress that happened today on the first three items in the foregoing list. In the last post, I mentioned that the well finally hit water at 1,406 feet. Just to put that into perspective, that’s nearly…
So, we knew when we bought the land that we would have to drill a well. We also knew that drilling a well was not something that was 100% guaranteed to be successful. When we talked to the drilling company, they talked about “witching” a well and that it was the best way to find…
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We were fortunate that my daughter came into town for a few days and I got to take her to the site for the first time. It was nearing sunset, which was great because you can see in the pics how the sun lights up the valley…