Looking for a retreat from the daily grind, but don’t want to leave home?
Consider a haven in the sky.
Margaret Hyde did. While she was working on a remodel of her Craftsman-style house in Santa Monica, Calif., two years ago, her attention was drawn to the 150-year-old fig tree that regally presided over the property.
“I thought it would be a great place for a treehouse,” says Ms. Hyde, author of the children’s book series Mo’s Nose. What she had in mind wasn’t the glorified woodshed most people associate with treehouses of their childhood, but a structure that would “honor” the ancient fig and serve as a retreat she could enjoy long after her three children left the nest, so to speak.
