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DesignSTL
|Jan/Feb 2020
A backyard tree house built with children in mind is occasionally the domain of a “design nerd” dad and a mom eyeing it as a future she-shed.
When Ian Spakowski, now 12, was nervous about a family move after his kindergarten year, his parents, Mike and Sarah Spakowski, promised to build him a treehouse.
But the family soon discovered that their new Midcentury Kirkwood home didn’t have enough trees to support one, leaving Mike to improvise and design a self-supporting structure that mimics a tree house in its height and style. “There are four posts, a wide-open space, and a tin roof,” says Ian, a sixth-grader at Nipher Middle School. “I like that it’s high up and you can see all the trees and nature.”
The clubhouse is not Ian’s alone—he shares it with younger brothers, Miles, 9, and Sam, 5. And sometimes, when the kids aren’t home, Sarah and Mike host their friends up there as well.
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