Spherical tree-house

Posted by Cory Doctorow, August 28, 2007 6:30 AM | # | Discuss (20)

Free Spirit Spheres build lovely, spherical wooden treehouses that you enter via a suspension bridge. The photo-gallery documents the construction and installation of "Eryn," a five-windowed spherical tree-dwelling with an electric kitchen, sleeping area, and living area. Link (Thanks, MarkM!)

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#1 posted by nicheplayer

, August 28, 2007 8:50 AM:

I knew I'd seen this somewhere before.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/25/bubble_treehouse.html

#2 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 8:51 AM:

They should engrave their family name on the back of it so it looks like the wooden balls from Minority Report.

#3 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 8:59 AM:

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#4 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 9:01 AM:

I thought this was super nice until I saw the pictures of the interior.

Yikes!

Obviously woodworkers aren't the best for interior design, it looks like an RV! A shame considering how sophisticated and wonderful it looks from the outside.

I would love to see what a talented designer could do with one of these.

#5 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 9:14 AM:

This is just phase one of the MYST terraforming project...

#6 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 9:36 AM:

That's one way to literally reduce the ecological footprint of your home... absolutely brilliant, I'd love to live in one.

#7 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 9:54 AM:

Maybe this thing even could been used on small Lakes or rivers...

#8 posted by kiint , August 28, 2007 10:05 AM:

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#9 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 10:13 AM:

thats a great house! I just forwarded it to a friend of mine who is doing also big wooden fuckminster buller like balls from leftovers of beds.
www.philfarmer.de

#10 posted by Halloween Jack , August 28, 2007 10:37 AM:

The thing about living in something like that is, every movement that you make in it would be obvious to passersby. Every movement. If the sphere's a-bobbin'...

#11 posted by Stefan Jones

, August 28, 2007 10:49 AM:

One word:

MYST

#12 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 11:11 AM:

404! link is down :( going to root address (www.freespiritspheres.com) gives... dowco?

#13 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 11:32 AM:

I guess you can't expect someone who builds a giant spherical treehouse to have good taste, but good god man, that interior is HIDEOUS. Its like a floating torture chamber.

#14 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 11:44 AM:

This is incredible, but I would be afraid to have it fall. Yikes.

#15 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 12:22 PM:

This was also covered in the book Makers by Bob Parks:

http://www.tiny.cc/ghHPw

#16 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 1:00 PM:

Yub Nub.

#17 posted by tylersweeney , August 28, 2007 1:27 PM:

At $150,000 "free spirit" is the wrong name for it. It should be called "wealthy capitalist pretending to be a hippie in a wooden bubble."

#18 posted by thelastspot

, August 28, 2007 1:33 PM:

These things are just up the road from me on Vancouver Island, Canada.

There was a story in the Globe and Mail about them as well.

#19 posted by Anonymous , August 28, 2007 1:49 PM:

ummm... Bathroom?

#20 posted by devoinregress

, August 28, 2007 2:32 PM:

"ummm... Bathroom?"

Well, you would be surrounded by trees, natures bathrooms.