Treehouse Masters

- Season 2

(2013)

Treehouse expert and visionary Pete Nelson explores the evolution of treehouses through delving into the many shapes and vast variety of functions they've served throughout the years. "Ultimate Treehouses 2" features a Papua, New Guinea, high-in-the-sky tribal treehouse built by hand, the world's oldest backyard treehouse (more than 200 years old), a luxury treehouse gem in New York and a re-purposed airplane fuselage in Costa Rica. The special also spotlights fully suspended biospheres in the wild skies of British Columbia. Follow Pete's jaw-dropping journey into the...

A family who celebrates Christmas 365 days a year tasks Pete with creating a Christmas treehouse wonderland in Jamul, CA. With some extra special holiday help, Pete and his crew build a magical Alpine-style treehouse perfect for Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Pete builds an adventure-themed treehouse for an exploration-loving family in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. This 2-story masterpiece is packed with adventurous novelties, including a rock climbing wall, suspension bridges, and hidden passageways.

Two sisters who run their family's rural inn in Farmington, Pennsylvania, present Pete with a bear of a task: build an observation treehouse on their 1000-acre property, where they can watch the black bears roaming the land. Pete is a little nervous at first when it comes to his team building in the midst of these wild beasts, but he turns his fear into inspiration by creating his first-ever mid-century decagon treehouse with walls of glass and windows, a wrap-around deck, cathedral ceilings and a closed-circuit bear-cam tracking system nestled among three white oaks ...

A family in Independence, OH who run a hope center want to build a therapeutic space in the trees. Believing in the healing power of trees and treehouses, Pete builds a butterfly-themed treehouse in a cluster of 6 trees featuring a climbing net and loft.

A nature-loving woman in Humboldt County, California, asks Pete and his crew to build a treehouse that pushes their skills to the limit. She feels cramped in her home and wants a permanent residence 60 feet up in the area's giant redwood trees. Pete and crew take the comforts of home to new heights in this bohemian-chic, tri-level treehouse, which boasts a bathroom, lounge and bedroom loft spread out throughout three floors with low-hanging lights, tapestries, modular furniture and an overall genie-in-a-bottle aesthetic. The owner dreams of being able to see the ...

A young couple has big dreams of a lighthouse treehouse atop a seaside seawall along the coast of Northwest Washington. Pete is challenged by the property's incredibly steep grade and must deliver all of his materials to the site by way of barge only! The octagon-shaped, two-story, white-and-red shingled structure, which is housed among a group of cottonwood trees, features porthole windows, a wrap-around balcony, a nautical-themed interior and rainbow-colored glass. The couple, wanting to truly live off the grid, throws Pete a curve ball by asking him for a rainwater...

A family from nearby Seattle wants to expand its already famous rural recording studio up into the trees! Up for the challenge, Pete creates a high-tech, two-story recording oasis more than 36 feet tall with in a group of cedar trees. Marrying music and nature, Pete and crew accent the treehouse with rust-colored metal, patterned, textured cork walls and a massive picture window that overlooks the wild salmon creek below. Upon completion, this musical treetop masterpiece is ready for its first recording session when a Grammy-award-winning megastar arrives at the ...