There are certain things of a mancave you just can’t manufacture and one of those things is a good view. You’ve either got a nice view, or any view at all, or you’re staring out the window at some other bro’s mancave across an alley.
Jono Williams wanted a nice view for his mancave. So he built it 30 feet in the air.
Jono Williams was all set to build the best treehouse ever, in New Zealand where he lives. It was to be so big, and so elaborate, that he feared whether the tree (or multiple trees) would support it in the first place. His solution: Weld a free-standing sphere, mounted on a 30-foot pole.
It took Williams 3,000 hours — he documented it fairly rigorously — and somewhere around $50,000 USD.
“I have a personal theory,” he says, “that if you sit back and think about how hard something will be, you will just convince yourself it can’t be done. The whole project made me think of climbing a huge set of stairs — each step was a task, and I’d focus on a few steps at a time. Next thing, I was finished.”
Besides having an awesome view and out of the way of nosey neighbors, and some friends, Williams stocked the inside with all of the necessities of life — a beer-dispensing mini-fridge that’s mounted in a sofa, flexible custom solar panels to fit on the outside of the sphere, custom lighting and a fingerprint scanner for the door.
[via Make]