TREEHOUSE w/ A Swinging Bridge Full Tour! | My Favorite Treehouse Airbnb

Today we are in Crane Hill, Alabama with Brad and Mitzi. In last week's video, we did a tour of their tiny house, and they kind of showed us some of the cool aspects of it and their experience with Airbnb. Today we're going to be exploring their tree house that they built themselves. This is one of the coolest tree houses I've ever seen, and I cannot wait to show you guys everything this place has to offer. And they're going to be telling us about their experience with building it and some of their really cool design aspects and choices that they chose to implement into it, and I think this is going to be really interesting. So, let's go check it out. So, to start off this tour, I'm going to be showing you guys around a little bit on the outside and whenever you arrive to this beautiful tree house. Like I said, we're located in Crane Hill, Alabama. There's a link down below if you want to check out this place for yourself. There's also a link to sign up or host on Airbnb if you have a tree house or a tiny house you want to build. Anyway, whenever you pull up on this beautiful property, you are located on 40 acres of private land all to yourself. This is a gated area, so you open up the gate and you go down your driveway and you have these beautiful trees everywhere, and you just start on this pathway up to your tree house. They have a couple pathways out here and it looks so gorgeous. The first thing you would encounter is this bridge that goes over this ditch. I love this bridge. It looks like a drawbridge kind of with the ropes. It's like you're in an enchanted forest. That's what I'm standing on right now. As you start walking towards your tree house, the paths are all lit up by these beautiful string lights that make this place glow at night. This place looks absolutely gorgeous at night with all these string lights and all the lights turned on on the tree house. It just glows out here in the forest. It's truly a magical experience. The owners definitely had the guests in mind when they were creating this place. So on the outside, you walk up towards the tree house a little bit more. There's the huge staircase that leads up to your tree house, but there's also this massive underneath area that has your swinging daybed under here. This is perfect if you want to take a nap out here or anything like that. It looks awesome. There's cornhole over here. There's also a hatch hidden door that leads up to the deck of your staircase. There's a swinging chair underneath this part of the tree house, and then you just step right down and you have your fire pit area with these two chairs right here. Plenty of firewood for you to use, and with the string lights all around it, it's really fun and cozy to be out here amongst all the trees. The nature out here is crazy. There's these trees everywhere. Even from the tree house, you have this beautiful view of all of the trees and everything like that. There's also some hiking trails out here, actually, and they're all labeled, which is super cool. Like I said, you're on 40 acres, so having all these hiking trails out here is something fun to do and explore, and even take photos out here, and it just adds to the experience. One of the hiking trails actually leads to a small pond on the property. There is a picnic table out here, and whenever we got here, it was suited up with a picnic basket, some flowers, and a bottle of wine, which was super romantic and nice. And then you got your pond with a pier that goes out pretty far into it, with some chairs at the very end of it. And one cool thing is that they have this boat right over here that actually works. If you wanted to get in the boat and go on the pond, you could totally do that if you wanted to. But these are just some cool aspects of your getaway that I've never seen before in an Airbnb. Now, if we go back around under the tree house, there is a pathway that leads up to a separate little building, and there's string lights, of course, and this is actually your outdoor shower. I think this is a really high-quality outdoor shower from compared to the other ones I have seen. There's actually hot water that runs to this. So, you open up this door, and you have two shower heads, actually, and in the middle, you have this cabinet that has your shampoo and everything like that. So, on your romantic getaway, you guys can come and take outdoor showers together, and with the string lights, and you can just look straight up to the trees. It is such a cool experience. And I came in here in the fall, so it was a little bit chilly, so having that hot water out here was really nice. So now, let's take a walk up your steps and see what Up on the Treehouse has to offer. Whenever you walk up the steps, you have this huge kind of wraparound balcony, and you can just see the beautiful windows that is up on here. And something to really point out are these doors that they have on the treehouse. This set of double doors are from Europe, from the early 1900s. They're vintage, and they look so good. And then, as we continue walking along, you have one of the coolest parts of this treehouse is your swinging bridge that connects your treehouse to this little patio area over here. This is such a cool aspect of all of this, and it really adds to the experience of staying here. I love it a lot. And then, you just walk across it, then you reach your patio area over here. You have a grill over here on the left side, and you have a really cool custom-made cooler right here. You just lift the lid, and the cooler lid is just drilled into this wooden lid right here. And then, the other side over here, a couple chairs that kind of overlook your property and overlook your fire pit area. Savannah and I had coffee here in the mornings, and it was just beautiful, and such a bliss experience being up high in the trees. So now, let's bring on Mitzi and Brad, the owners and builders, and ask them a couple questions about this treehouse. So, we learned last week a little bit about Mitzi's and Brad's story, about why they started with Airbnb, and that they have three properties total. This is their newest one, this treehouse. It's about 500 to 600 square feet of living space. So, I wanted to ask you guys, why a treehouse for Airbnb? Why would you build one? Well, really, we just wanted something unique and different to give everyone, like, a new experience. And also, we just love treehouses. We've always been kind of fascinated with a treehouse, and this one's just us. Yeah. You are the designer, basically, of this. Where did you get your design ideas from? Because a lot of the stuff is super unique and cool. I really just looked at other treehouses. Of course, Pinterest. Everybody uses Pinterest, and just some of the ideas that, just things that we thought that we would enjoy and we like, we just kind of went with it. We didn't really have a specific plan in mind. It was just kind of, we did it as we went. Yeah, it was a vision. She had the vision, and I mean, and she brought it to life for me by explaining, we can do this, and we can do this, and make it look like this. And, you know, going back, I guess, into our childhood days, that story she's told, and I've told it. She grew up in the woods, I grew up in the woods, and we loved the treehouse, you know, the atmosphere. Yeah, exactly. So, there's lots of outdoor amenities here that really stand out to me, but there's one in specific, the wedding arbor over there. You guys didn't have to include that, but you decided to anyway. Why did you want to include this? Well, we had a lot of inquiries about maybe getting married here, especially through COVID. They were trying to search for alternative ways to get married without having to cancel. So far, we've had two or three weddings here, just on a small scale. A lot of people don't want to spend, you know, a lot of money to get married. We all know it's expensive, and both our daughters are married, but our last one, you know, about buckled my knees. But we wanted to provide for that, to maybe accommodate for a small wedding setting, you know, and they could come and enjoy themselves, and still be able to get married, you know. Yeah, that makes sense. Had lots of honeymoons, so this way, you can have the whole package deal. Yeah, I love that aspect. So, you guys are probably wondering what the inside of this treehouse looks like, so let's go take you guys and see what that looks like. So, you walk through this black door, and you enter your enchanted treehouse. This is definitely a boho vibe in here, which I love a lot. This is all one big open concept. It's between five and six hundred square feet in here, so there's lots of space. And like I said, I really like how much of an open concept it is in here, with the bathtub, and the bed, and everything. So, to begin with, on this left side, you have your mini kitchenette, I would say. I like the incorporations of all the shelves up over here. You have your sink, and then you have some coffee options over here, as well. And then, you have your bed over here. It's a queen bed. Something really unique about it is the head board is actually mounted on a tv stand on this wall, because this is just a big slab of wood, which I think is an ingenious idea, so take note of that. And the wall it's mounted on is this gorgeous black wood, and I love the design that they have in it. One unique thing about this area, as well, is at the foot of the bed, it looks like you just have an end table, but it's not just an end table. This is basically like a coffee table that you're supposed to use these pillows and kind of eat your food at, or play games at this table right here. It's really cool. The owners actually built it themselves, and that just adds to your overall experience of being here. Over here on the right side, they built this sliding barn door themselves, as well, and this is where your bathroom is actually located. You have your vanity and mirror over here, and then your toilet on this back side, and just the design in here is absolutely gorgeous. I love that they covered up the window with this decor piece. The bed faces this whole wall of windows, which lets you look outside of your treehouse, and this makes it kind of feel airy in here and whimsical. I love the window design and all of that. You have a small fireplace right here in front of it to make it a little bit more cozy, and then now you have your beautiful bathtub that is right underneath this window, as well. I love the tile work that goes off of the wood right here, and this is a huge bathtub. With the bathtub tray, I love the golden faucet that comes out of the ground. This is definitely a romantic experience, and it just looks really cool in here. So, overall, the inside of the space is definitely well-designed. It's very, very unique, and I just love this space as a romantic getaway with your significant other, because it's just so intimate and cozy. There's no shower in here, because that was on the outside, remember? But now, let's bring in Brad and Mitzi again and ask them a couple questions about designing the space in here. So, I just gave you guys a tour of what this inside looked like. It is seriously, truly incredible. The mastermind behind it is Mitzi. She designed all of it. Tell me, what was some of the inspiration behind designing all of this in here? To be honest, it's really things that I just really enjoy and really like, like the old windows, stuff that we can bring back to life, that some of the older things, like the windows and the doors, just got some history behind them, and that makes it kind of interesting. The other things is just cool stuff you find off Pinterest that you look, and I just make a collection of that and kind of come up with ideas to incorporate it in here. Yeah, and Brad, you're the builder behind her ideas. You're the one that puts them and formulates them together. Do you ever find that challenging, or has there been any weird instances in all this? For it to all come together like it has, I mean, it's been a step back amazing to me, for myself, even though we've put our hands on it, we've been working and doing the work that's been done. It's just to step back and to know that it's turned out like it has. I mean, she's, I love my wife, and she has had the vision, and I'm just so... He gets to do all the work. The list, there's still things, okay, this has now got to still, this has got to still be done, this still begin, and you know, and that's the part about, you know, it's the work you put into it. If you want to put the work in it, then you can get the results back, you know, but you've got to put the work in it, you know. So did you build this with the intent to put it on Airbnb? Oh yes, yeah, definitely. So then it's probably really rewarding whenever guests come here and compliment anything about the treehouse. So what has been some of the more popular things that the guests would comment on? Definitely, I'm gonna say that they love the outdoor shower. I mean, they've definitely commented, they love the being able to get the tub bath inside, but you know, outdoor shower does have hot water, and people are like amazed that it's where it's at from the treehouse. A little stroll with the robe on you to go to it, it's just, it's amazing, but when you're out there and you're taking that shower and looking up and the moon's out, the stars are out, it's breathtaking. Yes, I agree. One treehouse on 40 acres seems like a lot, so what's next with you guys' plans? Yeah, we hope to maybe do up to four on it, and we definitely, hopefully we'll start the next one real in the future. Man, well that's something exciting to look forward. There's going to be more treehouse options from these incredible designers and builders for you to come stay at. Brad and Mincie has definitely put the guests and mine first here and try to give the guests the best experience they can in a private, secluded, awesome treehouse. So if you want to book this place, like I said, the link was down below, or if you want to become a host, that link is down below as well. I'll see you guys next week in another video.