When life gets messy, it’s easy to daydream about leaving your typical day-to-day and escaping to a place in the woods where you can leave your troubles behind. Treehouses can offer a wonderful escape ...

July 29, 2006 — -- Actor Val Kilmer has a luxury tree house. So do Sting and Julianne Moore. In fact, more and more people are building play houses for adults in their backyards. Tree houses have ...

Carpenter Joel “Bubba” Smith builds tree houses for a living. But these are not the rickety, slapped-together, sticks-nailed-slipshod-to-the- tree-in-the-backyard tree houses of childhood memory. As a ...

Elevated high above the ground, tree houses are familiar symbols of childhood magic and adventure. Architect Peter Eising remembers how they captured his imagination as a child. He would scavenge for ...

Though it's ostensibly for the kids, the hacienda-style tree house in Bill Bost's backyard is also his secret dream come true. "I loved playing in tree houses when I was little," says the Menlo Park ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho — A few years ago, KREM 2 brought you the story of a Sandpoint man who built a tree house that went viral and was even featured on several TV shows. He has built another tree house ...

You could say Joyce and Richard LaVoie like to get high. The tree house they built in the Minnesota woods has just one room with a potbelly stove to warm it. As CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara ...

John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi should get together and build a tree house. So should Elton John and Madonna, Jean Quan and the Oakland Police Department, and everyone who has ever appeared on a "Real ...

Microsoft's Redmond headquarters recently unveiled its latest perk: tree houses. The campus is surrounded by 500 acres of woods, so Microsoft added some beautiful massive tree houses for employees to ...

Tree houses aren’t just for kids these days. Some of the most popular Airbnb and house rentals rest high above the ground. Vacationers looking to try something new on their next getaway can stay in ...

When Jeff and Millie Baird bought a rugged 165-acre property in California’s Sonoma County in 2010, their goal was to spend more family time outdoors. So the first thing they built was a tree house: a ...