Featured on Union Furniture Blog by Karen Dickhut.
Fall Season
2024
Photos By Aaron Fuhrman - Missouri Division of Tourism
Video by Alec Pettus available at: https://missouritourism.getbynder.com/share/4E414420-23A3-4B1F-ABDCDDF883AAD373/
Artists who became friends fill our space with their craftsmanship! Here is our story of the 4-year build!
Building a custom backsplash
Plaster tiles and vintage corner wooden blocks combine and will be coated in epoxy and will become the backsplash of the kitchenette.
Green Earth Art Company Owners Tim and Curtis
Custom walnut bases by Darryl, plaster art plaques by Green Earth Art. Epoxy by Marsha.
Custom walnut frames, with bullets in wood. by Darryl
Diamond painting by Michelle Todd, Frame assembly Gary Lucy Gallery
Custom walnut and epoxy sign by Marsha Conley and Steve Miller.
Signs made from cut cedar trees, planed, sanded, and routered, ready to pour epoxy!
Our entrance
Mermaids visit fairies in the forest waters
Blown glass ornaments combine to create a glass-beaded wall hanging. Majestic Glass was featured at the St Louis Renaissance Festival 2021. Artist Catherine Daniels has contributed multiple pieces to the treehouse.
Paul Clip, metal fabricator and artist, Clip contracting, Expert Metal fabricators
Mantel with greenhouse fairy
Enchanted Forest Treehouse November 2022
The varnished American Elm tree gets lowered through the clearstory by the crane!
Polishing the copper to the oldies of classic rock! Prepping it for clear coating.
Nathan Moses and buddy Wally worked together for years! We brought in the geriatric crew to frame the roof….they were the only ones that knew math and cuts for that level of difficulty!
It took me 2 weeks of digging by hand around the roots for 15 feet 3 feet deep! Protecting the roots to the edge of the drip line. It took the machines 2 days to plant the tank.
Septic Services
Charlie showing me his tooling machine shop
Charlie shows off his race car!
Charlie just finished tooling our TABS. We were there to pick up the parts and learn how to install them. Charlie worked with Darryl working through the process and using the conical drill and torque wrench and doing an actual placement of a TAB.
Darryl and Andy Yount his best friend raise the first walls!
Nathan and Darryl draw the clearstory on the floor.
2 old guys and their pup! Wally and Nathan give each other a hard time and Darryl does as he is told…
wall in the fall of 2022
Washington Fordge, blacksmith - Pat McCarty
Tree collar anchor for interior tree
Gifts from my friends at retirement gave me the shrubs and trees! Perineal plants were added from my gardens at home.
Landscape
I collaborated with Astral Glass, and Art Glass unlimited to bring my drawing to life! Carved layers of glass castles and forest gates beacon guests to come in.
Enter your own Fairytale!
TABS Tree Bolt Attachments Assembly of TABS after drilling trees for placement.
Custom tooled steel for lateral attachments to the TABS. Haslag Steel Sales, Inc.
TABS….measuring hole drilling depth
SCE cowboy cranes fly the glulam to the lateral supports. these connect the trees. One end floats on polyethylene pads and the other is secured to the metal frame.
Hall Brothers Lumber boom truck delivers the floor joist across glulams.
Nathan and Wally framing the roof!
front the bottom of the hill
Nathan and Darryl apply the first sheets of batten board siding.
April 10, 2022
Copper Dragon Scale Tiles! Storybook Finals!
Paul Clip Contracting / Expert metal fabricator
Morning sunrise to treehouse entrance off Old Hwy 50 East.
Copper dragon scale tiles!
Meet Darryl, sometimes confused for Clint Eastwood, or his alias “double-barrel" Darryl”
Charlie uses the software used by NASA to show the pendulum movement of the trees to show weak spots in the decking from flexing with the trees. He is calculating measurements for Darryl for placement of the holes in our specific trees.
Glulams waiting for good weather and a crane!
Hot tub delivery
nothing is impossible if you believe!
