how to decorate your treehouse
How to Decorate Your Treehouse.
Treehouses are cool little places to hang out. There's no point in having a treehouse with nothing in it, so that you have to sit on the floor. With stuff in the treehouse, everything is possible. Read this wikiHow article to get loads of ideas about decorating your treehouse.It is great!
Steps.
1. Decide how you will decorate the walls. Will you paint them or leave them wooden? Wood gives a real natural feel, while paint will make you feel like you are in an actual house. Different kinds of paint have different feels. Black will feel like this is your little dark hut and bright colors will feel like you are in a house full of sunshine.
2. Choose a type of flooring. Do you want to leave it wooden, or use carpet? Fluffy or flat? Carpet gives the room a cosy feel and a wooden floor is like a little den. Tiles aren't very popular, though. They would be used for a kitchen or a bathroom.
3. Make windows. Windows can be wide, narrow, tall, or short. They can also be square, heart, circle or star shaped. It's your choice. If you want sunlight to shine into your room and make it warm, you have to have windows. Or, if you like, no windows at all. Add curtains, too.
4. Create signs.You can create a wooden sign on the door of your treehouse.It could say, No Girls, No Boys, Keep Out, No Trespassing or anything else. If you want a spiritual feel, add an idol or two, like a fairy or animal. It would also be cool to have a wind chime.
5. Furnish your treehouse. You can use couches, little tables, beanbags, paintings, a computer and a desk, lights, or anything else. You can choose a cosy feel, dark feel, sunny feel, etc. The list goes on.
6. Add some entertainment. This can be a television, Nintendo, radio, or even calculators; anything that you can use to entertain yourself when you are bored. For Nintendo try to use it as a laptop and camera if you have the DSi. You can hook up internet to that, which would allow Youtube in replacement for Radio. Try keeping a bookcase in there to hold everything on.
7. Find a way to keep rain from wetting your tree house. Rain will soak through wood and we don't want it to wet your furniture or electronics! Try to cover it with moss, tree bark, waterproof blankets, or anything else to keep it out!
8. If you have a way to keep the inside from getting wet, see if you can find a way to get power for lamps, chargers, and maybe even a TV if you have an extra!
Question : How much money is it?
Answer : If you would like to spend less money, you can find furniture and decor at thrift and second hand stores, or even garage sales. You can buy all new things if you wish, and maybe even grab more things that will still be able to withstand an outdoor environment, but this will cost more. Set a budget first, and then decide on your options.
Question : Will this work for any tree?
Answer : Make sure you're building a treehouse on a tree with enough support for a platform to start with, and has multiple branches, or enough room to place support beams around the house.
Question : Can I put curtains in my treehouse?
Answer : Yes! It's your treehouse. You can put whatever you want inside.
Question : What can I put in a simple, small treehouse?
Answer : Maybe some pillows or fold out chairs, a portable cooler for drinks, and a small box you can keep games or books in that will also double as a table. Put up posters for decoration.
Question : What if the ceiling is pretty low and it's a small space?
Answer : Keep furniture to a minimum and use pillows for seating. Put up fairy lights to add some sparkle. Make use of vertical space with shelving.
Question : How can I decorate a very small tree house?
Answer : Use shelves for vertical storage, and use small storage ottomans to double as seats and storage units. Try to use nooks and crannies to your advantage.
Question : How can I get electricity into the treehouse?
Answer : The easiest way to do this would be to run an extension cord from your house (exterior if you have an outlet outside) into the treehouse.
Question : Would I be able to make it two floors?
Answer : Yes, you can potentially make it two floors.
Question : What if my tree house does not have a roof and it has cracks in the wall?
Answer : Repair it, then add a roof, and then decorate it.
Question : How can I add floors if there are too many branches?
Answer : Ask an adult to trim some of the branches for you, or choose a different tree for your treehouse.
Tips.
If you are painting or putting down flooring, be creative and make up patterns. For example, if you want your treehouse to seem like a field at night, get some kind of green fluffy carpet, like grass, and paint the walls black, and add glow in the dark stars. Or, get bright! Blue floor blue walls, and paint fluffy white clouds for a real feeling that you are on air. Instead of wooden floor or fluffy carpet, how about a wooden floor with lots of little rugs and cushions?
Put posters and artwork up just make sure they don't get wet!
For the curtains, you can just get old material and make curtains out of them.
Instead of just lights on the ceiling, you could have a punchbag or a disco ball, or get things to hang from your ceiling like little fluffy bats, or fluffy love hearts.
Sometimes, you could cut a window in the door of the treehouse.
You could add glow-in-the-dark stars onto the walls and ceiling.
For walls and flooring, choose colors you like or with colors that match. You could have a blue carpet with green walls, for example, but don't have brown walls with purple floor.
Make it cozy - add blankets and pillows!
If you are sharing a treehouse with your sibling or other person, just make one big treehouse and use curtains instead of doors. This way you can open them up or close them and get some alone time. Just make sure that the curtains will stand the weather.
If you like to create art, buy or find a bin and pile up some art supplies in your treehouse. You can buy paint, carpeting and wall paper to make your house pop out.
Warnings.
Do not leave anything valuable in there when you are not there.
Make sure you are allowed to do this if you are young; ask your parents.
Don't spend too much money; try to make your own decorations.
Be careful with scissors, hot glue,etc.