{"id":7,"date":"2010-03-28T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-02-28T05:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T05:46:24","slug":"the-stumphouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"The StumpHouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t have good trees for easy treehouse building — they’re all pines and firs, straight and tall. But last year, we had some trees taken down and we had the stumps left at about 4 feet tall. For no reason at the time, except that we might want them.<\/p>\n

Two of them were conveniently close together and close to the kids’ sandpit and the trees where we’re going to hang swings once we get a crossbar up. After looking at them for a few months, and finding one good solid pallet left over from building the woodshed, I had a plan. The first time Eric got out his chainsaw this year, I had him level them off.<\/p>\n

And then I built a treehouse. Except, because it’s not on an actual tree<\/em>, but on stumps<\/em>, it has now become known as The StumpHouse. Because my children are literalists.<\/p>\n

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The posts supporting the other corners are from a fence that used to surround the front patio, and which my parents tore out last fall during a visit.<\/p>\n

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The siding is made of the outside edges of milled trees which we got free from a friend who had had a bunch of trees cleared and milled on her property about a year ago.<\/p>\n

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The ladder is made from more parts of that fence from the front patio.<\/p>\n

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It’s not huge, and it’s not quite finished, but I think the boys will have fun with it for a while. It’s probably big enough for 3 or 4 kids.<\/p>\n

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So now it just needs a roof! Having made the entire thing from stuff we had on hand (the only thing I bought was more screws), I don’t want to pay for roofing. We’ll be on the lookout for scraps of something that we can recycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We don’t have good trees for easy treehouse building — they’re all pines and firs, straight and tall. But last year, we had some trees taken down and we had the stumps left at about 4 feet tall. For no reason at the time, except that we might want them. Two of them were conveniently … Continue reading “The StumpHouse”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatrosemade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}