Kids Treehouse

The backyard hero: a real forked tree with a plank cabin built round its trunk — the deck cantilevered on visible joists and braced back to the trunk, a scrap-timber rail, a pitched shingle roof, a cut-out window and doorway you can see the dark interior through, and a rope ladder lashed to the bearer and running to the grass. Mismatched offcut boards, a bucket on a string, a KEEP OUT sign and a canopy of leaves over the lot.