Mind-Blowing Modern Tiny Tree House Built with Reclaimed Materials – FULL TOUR
This epic 2-storey log tree house is built around 9 hemlock posts and salvaged and reclaimed materials that Mike, the builder, saved for years before starting this 3-year project. The upstairs is a complete living area with two sleeping spaces, a kitchen, living and dining room, and a small bathroom. Downstairs is an outdoor lounge area and a full indoor bathroom. It's a really unique space and we're really excited to give you a full tour!
You can find The Wakefield Treehouse on Airbnb and Instagram here:
https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/32808110
https://www.instagram.com/thewakefieldtreehouse/
http://wakefieldconstruction.ca/
The foundation of the treehouse is 9 hemlock posts that are on concrete footings anchored to the bedrock and the treehouse has 420 square feet of heated living space. The home is on the grid for electricity, and it has it's own well and septic system.
It was really exciting and inspiring for us to meet Mike and his partner Gen, and to hear the story of how the tiny tree house cabin idea came to life after visiting tiny houses and treehouses on their travels, and how they made it a reality by building with scrap and leftover materials that Mike had collected from job sites for years.
We hope you enjoyed touring it as much as we did!
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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Music & Song Credits:
All music in this video was composed, performed, and recorded by Mat of Exploring Alternatives.
Editing Credits:
Mat and Danielle of Exploring Alternatives
Filming Credits:
Mat of Exploring Alternatives
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Provided by Gen and Mike
Many folks do want this kind of living but when we share our thoughts with family .. They call us crazy !
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Don’t share your dreams with them just do it
Well, you kind of are. Crazy can talk, but do you do the walk? Anyone can’t talk. Let’s see it happen.
Be you ! You are not them, live your life
Find crazy people like you!
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
Then maybe follow your own advice and start living a little instead of quoting dead people?
@The Dead Immortal just shut the f up “Dead not Immortal”
@ezfreak 015 tell your god to make me shut the f up, “ez freak zero fifteen”
great quote!!
Most people hustle to support their existence, and missed life in the process. sometimes i wonder what i am always rushing for.. when i already have life here and now
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
–Mark Twain
@Teacha Tami , t he same
to YOU 👏
Thanks for that awesome quote!!!
I was like 420
This quote most likely attributable to H. Jackson Brown, not Mark Twain.
One of my favorite quotes. And having lived long enough to understand it on a personal level, it’s very true!
One of the best unique “tiny” houses I’ve ever seen. I would love living in that.
Would be illegal, prob’ly. Need to be built to local specs…’lectric, plumbing, foundation, yadda yadda…this thing aint, of course. Lots of illegal tiny houses out there, too. Owner- built, no plans, no permit, often situated where zoning disallows them. Pictured in a setting that appears to be located in a natl park. OTOH, could be fake gnus.
Yes. Just annoyed I clicked it as it’s not a treehouse at all… those are considered to build in/around one or more living trees (or dead trees left in situ — original trunk, roots, etc — but that might be a rot-problem longer term). This is a house on wonky stilts, not a treehouse AT ALL.
same 🙂
Step back, it’s mine.
Well worded, a “house”, not “tree house”
Incredible. Love that it’s reclaimed materials and it was nice hearing a more realistic build time. It seems like most people say they built something in a matter of months lol
They prolly do, but not something as nice as this
What a cool expression of who he is and what he believes in.
This is my favorite Tiny Treehouse so far. He did a great job of mixing old and new elements creating a light & airy rustic forest lookout cabin. Wood love to live there! 🌲
Not so tiny.
Not tiny,not a tree house.its a house in the woods
would be better if it was a tree house. This is an elevated cabin constructed on concrete piers and posts. Not a tree house
A person has to be brain dead to call this a tree house.also it’s not tiny
the kitchen balcony… 4:29 is everything…no cars noises, no alarms, no traffic sounds, just so peaceful. Very dreamy house
This is one of the most unique tiny house and built by a guy who believes in himself.
5:35 … Coffee in bed! Like that part. Lovely and unique. Great house.
Not a tree house. Smart would’ve named it Stilt House.
People always say ‘man you’re so lucky to have something like that’…well, buy some land and put the work in to build it. Luck has nothing to do with it 😂
That had never occured to me. I’ll just go right out and do that.
I did, decades ago. Before the internet. Logged the trees, learned how to do scribe fit. Heat with wood. In rural Alaska. I made the decision to come here when I was 9 years old, from reading my mom and dad’s World Book Encyclopedia.
When I hear people saying they “always” wanted to live like this, it means the same thing as saying they’d love to have a million dollars. Well sure. The problem is having to earn it! Likewise, rural Alaska is fifty below zero, mosquitoes, isolation, all the hard physical labor… That’s why there’s less than 1% of us doing this, lol.
Nice idea but pretty much a non starter in the UK. We have to get permission to build a kids treehouse in our own gardens. Most woodland, even privately owned, has many restrictions on what you can and cannot use it for; there are some valid reasons for this, overpopulating an area, protecting of said environment, etc but in the end it all comes down to convincing your local authority to get permission. All in all, building a tree house is the easy bit!
well he had the right trade for a job to know how to build.. took years for him to learn that.
That’s all it takes? Well..
We finna move into the mountains like this. The government and their crazy society is getting humanity screwed
I can imagine when the night come, suddenly became creepy.
“Indoor bathroom” sounds like “color tv”.
LMAO!!
I’m not sure if you know what a treehouse is, but thats more like a house on stilts.
imagine if the deck was on the roof. with direct sun, it could be a patio and greenhouse combined. add solar and water catchment. it would be amazing. very nice build.
imagine if the deck was on the roof. with direct sun, it could be a patio and greenhouse combined. add solar and water catchment. it would be amazing. very nice build.
The title made me believe this is a house that can build itself.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
–Mark Twain