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Reassembly farmer1/30/2024 To achieve a perfect fit, Seanix trimmed a few of the branches when the headboard and footboard were in place inside the loft. Seanix attached the top and bottom rails to the posts with coped joints, and fastened the vertical branches together using Screw Products. Many of these branches had been damaged from emerald ash tree borers.Īlthough Seanix had never made a bed frame from branches before, his background in crafting log bed frames informed this project. Seanix Zenobiacreated the bed frame for the loft, using ash tree branches he harvested from his own backyard. The finished slab countertops add elegance to the kitchen. It came from the trunk intersection of two branches of a tree. Dylan cleaned up each “leg” but made sure to keep some of the original bark on the outer rim of the slab. The unique diamond shape of this countertop was dictated by the original piece of wood. As Dylan says, “It’s wonderful to turn what might be perceived as a defect into a unique feature of the built-in.” The angled loft roofline inside the completed treehouse.ĭylan Rauch crafted live edge countertops from black walnut wood for the treehouse kitchen.ĭylan added this maple wood butterfly joint to hold together a large natural split in the walnut. This roofline’s opening to the large common space below made it distinctive and a little tricky to construct. The prefab crew assembled the loft roofline inside our shop to ensure that the components fit perfectly together. These joints help lock the platform together. Making this jig for dovetail mortise and tenon joints enables the prefab crew to use it again in the future. Rolf and Griffin designed a dovetail mortise and tenon jig for the loft platform – this draws the platform together for added strength. Prefab maestros Rolf and Griffin test the structural integrity of the treehouse’s loft platform. The crew used detailed shop drawings to construct the treehouse components and labeled each element to facilitate reassembly onsite. FRAMINGĮlements of our “treehouse in a box” – our crew prefabricated all the walls in our shop in Washington State, before shipping them to site for assembly. The completed treehouse looks at home in a grove of oak trees- you can see more photos here and take our video tour here. Join us as we take a look back into our prefabrication shop to see what went into creating these handcrafted features. The Fox Farm Treehouse is full of custom built-ins and thoughtful details ranging from slab countertops to dovetail joints in the framing.
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