A New Direction for Design Crisis

I'm thinking we need to narrow the focus here at Design Crisis and declare ourselves the world's leading authority on crazy ass tree houses.  With Erin's number one best post of all time about the probably haunted tree house here, my 24 hour around the clock coverage of the tree hotel here and this beast I'm about to throw at you today I'm ready to consider us 100% tree house experts:  full on qualified to appear as an expert witness in court in case any crizime ever takes place in a tree house. Let's do this.

I am ready to tell you homies about this here TEN STORY tree house somewhere in Tennessee  built by Horace Burgess, a landscape architect, after a fist-pump sealed agreement between him and God.

Constructed over 14 years, The Minister's tree house (no website) is built around an 80 foot tall white oak tree with a diameter of 12 feet, 6 other trees act as pillars supporting the structure.   The house itself is built with only salvaged materials, which, apparently was God's end of the deal:  Horace was to build the tree house while the big man would ensure that he never ran out of supplies.

The house's square footage has never been measured (although the number of nails used has: 258,000) but it's estimated to be between 8,000 - 10,000  square feet.  Among it's gazillion rooms are a church and a basketball court.  Divine requirement?  Possibly

The entire house cost $12,00o to build (it's unclear which materials were purchased)

I only found one interior shot of the tree house and it belongs to some dude on flickr who's disabled sharing of his photos, so if you want to see it you have to click here.  Even though I'm annoyed by this guy for not letting me post his photo (with credit!!!) I still think it's worth you cruising over to check it out.  Here

UPDATE! You don't have to go look at stupid lame-os share-blocked photos, instead you can read a hilarious post with tons of interior pictures over at modern sauce's blog.  It's a 2 parter:  here and here

So far the only real difference  I can see between the Mister's House and the one Erin toured last year is that I'm pretty sure she would buy this one.  Especially for $12,000.

all other photos via

Eyelid Movies

Amanda Talbot of Snoop is one lucky girl. As an editor and consultant, she's worked for some of the biggest decor magazines and design firms on the planet, plus she gets to hob nob with the cool kids. Check out this project she worked on:

Styling an outdoor movie set at Todd Oldham's house for a Richard Powers photoshoot sounds totally lame, right? Ok, so it sounds awesome, especially when she talks about how fun and cool Todd and his partner Tony are.

Dammit, how do I get this job? I am for serious.

Since When Did I Want a Cozy Cottage?

First of all, I have to thank DC reader Elizabeth for reminding me about M. Design Interiors last week.  You know, M. Design, the design firm that brought us the potty that launched a thousand blog posts:

Yes, you know this room, it lives in this house:

On any other day of my life I would move into this house before you could say flexible interest rate, but today, well, today another one of their interiors is catching my eye.   It's an odd choice for me, given my affinity for 70s porn inspired homes, but I think this nesting business has gotten the best of me because today I want to live behind these doors:

Not wanting to change a thing about the landscaping around this cozy cottage.  Yes I know bamboo is invasive.  Zip it.

Look what awaits me inside!  I could sit the hell out of those leather chairs.  Erin can sit in one too, we will then discuss what will replace that sofa.  In this fantasy I'm not pregnant and I'm on my third vodka tonic, fyi.

This is where I sleep off my hangover.

Call me crazy but today this is really working for me

Sorry about the pink color block, it's on the M. Design website and in my cottage fantasy I don't have to use photoshop in order to write a blog post.

Ok, ok, I know the rest of America is knee deep in autumn, but it's still 90 degrees here and this outdoor shower looks like a great place to recover from that boozy nap I took earlier in this post.

On a side note:  Elizabeth also mentioned that the head designer for M. Designs is the sister of the blond on Modern Family.  Hot Goss!  On a side side note, one of the reasons I don't watch that show is because I don't buy the blond and that dude as a couple.  I like both characters just fine, but I really don't believe them together.  Sorry everyone, just sayin.