Tree House Fun

We were given an assignment to design a tree house for a specific audience and place. I thought how fun it would be to design one for the girls in my hall and I knew of a perfect tree in our yard with a perfect view.

These are the Millerites

We live in a hall built in the 1930s. Mrs. Elizabeth Miller Watkins built the hall in hopes to help women continue their education in college and learn how to be strong independent women. It is the second scholarship hall built in the nation after our neighbor hall Watkins.

I wanted to design a tree house that would provide an extra quiet place to study and a place to relax and enjoy the view.

So in my design I decided that i would have 1.5 story tree house that would have a lot of windows and a balcony that would take advantage of the view to the east.

 This is a big triangle window the extends to both stories.













The inside view showing more windows and the 2nd story

The tree house from the front view. I tried to make it flow with Miller Hall as far as architectural style.











Since Miller is on KU campus I did want to bring in some school pride so the furnishing reflects the school colors.

Then I also designed it to have a card swipe so it would be safe for the girls.

This project was a lot of fun in the fact of designing something for my hall. I felt like maybe a little to much time was spent looking and drawing trees and i was never sure what exactly we were supposed to have done for class. But over all this was a fun project.