The Magic Tree House Gets a Facelift

You know how you move into your new house and fix it to your liking, but always have a mental list of things you'd still like to do eventually?  Same thing here.  I have looked at the suspended tree house floor for three years and LOVE it, but have always thought it wasn't quite finished.

My strapping boys took care of that for me a last week.  They added a railing to the existing floor (mostly to hide unsightly, ancient duct work), and made it look real enough that I have to wonder if there aren't real kids up there babbling about school and parents and favorite movies.  I told the Dahl and Dahl Remodeling Team, "Make it look like kids built it."  The attention to detail makes me smile.  The boards are cut unevenly.  The nails are bent.  The boards unevenly spaced.  This thing has ten-year-olds written all over it.

I love it.

And I love my sons for indulging their quasi-hippie mother (again) with another of her wild schemes.



(Please forgive the tight angles -- the hallway is very narrow and confined).