{"id":90,"date":"2017-11-18T20:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/?p=90"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:06:40","slug":"epic-tree-house-with-drawbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/2017\/11\/18\/epic-tree-house-with-drawbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Epic Tree House with Drawbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The best feeling you can get is when you make someone smile&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two summers ago (the summer of 2016) I built this tree house for the kids and their cousins at our family summer place. <!--more-->We had some extra lumber available that had been used for a temporary floor when the new summer house had been built. The wooden pillars we got for free from someone that had done some electrical maintenance on the island and didn&#8217;t want to freight them to the mainland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a kid I remember dreaming and planning the ultimate tree house that never got built. The kids have long wanted me to build a tree house for them, so why not i thought. But the idea of just making a box with a door didn&#8217;t appeal to me. I would build my dream tree house for them that I wasn&#8217;t capable of building myself when I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>Now we had all this material to build from, and the perfect spot, next to a small cliff so that you can have a drawbridge straight into the tree house.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to build.\u00a0 A week of my summer vacation went into this project. But I\u00a0 enjoyed it so much. Making things that give people smiles on their faces really gives me energy.<\/p>\n<p>The best reward is always the smile you see, and when you peek out the window and you see the kids enjoying and playing in the house.<\/p>\n<p>I made pulleys for the rope that hoists the drawbridge so that even Johannes that was five back then was able to pull up the rather heavy bridge (which even I struggled with when it had no pulleys).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1196\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows.jpg 1196w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows-768x771.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows-1021x1024.jpg 1021w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-tree-house-wood-brick-windows-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1198\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge.jpg 1198w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/epic-treehouse-with-drawbridge-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1198px) 100vw, 1198px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best feeling you can get is when you make someone smile&#8230; Two summers ago (the summer of 2016) I built this tree house for the kids and their cousins at our family summer place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-for-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}