Tree houses - going back to our roots?
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on Fri, 06/13/2008 at 1:48pm.
I discovered the existence of tree houses by accident while browsing the Web. I never knew an entire industry has grown up around the concept, and it got me thinking.
What is driving the demand I wonder, as the companies designing and building treehouses have entire galleries of designs ranging from individual custom-made houses to treehouse hotels and lodges, even a treehouse office concept.
Why would people want to live off the ground, the terra firma we all know and love and trust, and make a home among the treetops? Are we, like Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley's novel, going back to our roots? I mean, if scientists are to be believed, we are descended from apes and now our ancestral genes are calling for a return to the old life.
If this trend continues, I foresee the Amazon jungle becoming the next location of a property boom in view of the huge number of trees there that can hold huge numbers of houses. That is, if the treehouse owners can survive a life among the jaguars, the anacondas which are the world's biggest snakes, scorpions and of course, the primitive native tribes who might not take kindly to having new neighbours.
I've added two more treehouse pictures to the Dream Homes gallery - they are awesome, in my opinion.