"Most Cutting Edge Treehouse"

Received word from our 3rd Plan Submital and although we still have 3 corrections to go (started with over 30 corrections) the Architectural and Engineer plans have been approved! 

I knew I was getting into a big project when I started the Lovers Treehouse project but it wasn't until the other day that my architect (the architect for Treehouse Masters and The Treehouse Guys) said 

         - "Your project is as cutting edge as any that have been done"

So what does it mean when I say the architectural and engineer plans have been approved, it means we'll have the advantage of the following elements:

1. Having trees live throughout the house without having window's or doors covering them!  This means, you'll be able to live in the home, while living with the tree (touchable)

2. Able to have a structure completely supported by a tree without any ground supports! 

3. Able to build a smaller sqft home by adding a bridge to calculate the sqft and keep true to the treehouse feel

4. Our years of work have pushed the county to create a treehouse building system.  This means building tree houses in the county of San Bernardino will be much easier from this point forward.  Moving the Treehouse Movement forward ;)



We still have 3 corrections, one of them being that the tree's be tested by an instrument and technology called Picus Sonic Tomography.  This test is a non-invasive one that uses sound to detect interior tree decay.  

So we're not quite in the clear, until we can prove that the inside of our tree's are in fact healthy...  

We've made big strides up to this point, and the Picus Sonic test will be a biggy for us (fingers crossed)

Minor Variance Approved!

Moving Forward

Constantly inching our way towards the build and for the 1st time in while it feels that we are making bigger strides than normal ;)

Update #1
We had proposed a minor variance for the width of the treehouse - the code was requiring to make the structure much larger and wider, thus taking away from the authenticity of a treehouse.  After some time, we received confirmation that the minor variance was accepted

Update #2
Waiting to hear back on the 3rd Submittal that we turned into the county.  Best news we've heard back yet - the biggest hurdle which is the architectural and engineer approval, is a go!  The county now just has to see how to set up a system for the future health of a treehouse (seeing as there isn't a treehouse in that county and we're paving the way)  Whoever wants to build a treehouse next in this jurisdiction, will have it MUCH easier - your welcome ;)  The other correction is that our parking is in the road right of way, and so we're pulling the permit on that ;)  And the last thing the county would like to see is a sonogram on the tree that will contain the meditation pod (the structure in the tree, without any ground supports)  Time to put in a call to Scott Baker in WA, and see what we can get together..... SO CLOSE!