Pressure washed

The work on the tree house continues. This entry details the pressure washed stage.

Before. The oldness and the grayness.

Robert, my co-conspirator in this endeavor pressure washing.

Above, check out the 3DS wiggle pic of this event.

And one more!

Disorienting cleanliness.

And finally, the result of all the washing: the clean, cabin-like look new wood. Enjoy.

Hard to believe the difference!

New door!

I've got a couple of friends helping me out with this tree house project. One of them happens to be an architect! He's designed (and is in the process of building) a door for the tree house.

The house is in great condition and in fact the only weather damage is in the door way (where there's never been a real door). This should take care of that.

Behold! The terrible fury of Jon!

And here you can see his design.

Chu?

If only I could house a for real Pikachu in this thing.

Treehouse tour!

Behold! I am chronicling the adventures of restoring and maintaining my treehouse. This is a little side project of mine, a "studio away from studio" if you will.

Here is a brief tour of the establishment.

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Next time I'll post some of the progress on the interior as well the door design! Enjoy.

Tree house

When we bought our house 4 or 5 years ago it had one particularly cool feature: a tree house. Or club house. Or a room on stilts. Whatever you'd like to call it. Standing in the backyard by a tree, this fully wired (yes, it has power) one room fort with a porch is the envy of the neighborhood. (I think?)

I've recently become re-obsessed with it. I'll go in cycles of forgetting about it and suddenly noticing it again and thinking,"Oh man, if I knew someone who had one of these I'd be like, 'Why are you not in it all the time!'"

 In fact, as you can see, I did some of The Hidden People out there last summer.

As the weather has improved over the few last weeks, I've been working on drawings and due to my new MacBook Pro, I've been working some out there and handling emails.

I even did a little video tour of it the other night. I'll do a better one in the day light sometime.

Sorry, can't embed the video. You got to click to see it.

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And I set a fire bowl up on the porch. For hilarious.

So. The time has come to really do it right. A little studio away from studio. With the help of a friend we'll be making this a for real working space. I can't wait.

Excited? Excited.