1. Why build a treenet

Public spaces are… public. Loud. Ants. Wet benches. But what if your "outdoor office" lived in the trees?

You love being outside. I do too. Whenever weather permits it, I try to be outside. With remote work most choose cafes. If their laptop brightness allows it, some try to sit outside on the cafe terrace during summers. Some daredevils will even take their laptops to the park (hi! It’s me, I’m this “daredevil”).

But those spaces are not yours.

So what have treenets become for me?

New spaces.

Spaces where I can work, where I can nap. Spaces that dry quickly after rain, and where ants don’t go (at least in my current experience). Spaces to go for a picnic date, or where to get some solitude and thinking / journaling time.

A treenet is a treehouse made of rope up in the trees, where you weave it yourself. Your very own little summer house, strung between living trunks.

As well as a first practice at building your home.

In the modern day we don’t really build our homes much. Sometimes we don’t even build within them. This human experience might peak at assembling the odd ikea furniture piece.

But there is something special about creating a space.

It teaches you care, responsibility, as well as daring and adventure. You can look at it as an exercise of your human free will. Or grounding you to the trees and nature. An accessible starting point to the human experience of creation.

And a rare access point that already bears sweet fruit.

While other hobby sets of accessible creation will lead you to a… coloured in colouring book, functionless carpentry box, or some other token— this hobby set ends with you having created a space. For what? For whatever you want it for.

It can be your Hemingway’s writing house. Or a meditation retreat. Or a dedicated picnic spot. And all of these together.

I read, write, work, think, sleep, eat, and tinker.

I will learn in time how best and better to relay the magic and usefulness of creating a new space, but this is my first attempt.

If this attempt enticed you, read on and create your own new space.

Whether for yourself, your kids, where to take your friends, or where to take no one.

Let us go on this journey and I’ll help you get to your very own Tarzan house, Hemingway’s writing chamber, picnic in the skies—

—your very own Treenet.