The palette

A tree house of the tree it sits in: spruce logs, spruce planks, spruce leaves. Stripped logs light up the cabin walls against the dark trunk, and a dark oak roof hides under the crown.

Techniques

• A giant tree
• Struts
• Log cabin
• Winding stair
• Crown in rings
• Rope bridge

The steps

1. Roots
2. Trunk
3. Winding stair
4. Winding stair
5. Struts east and west
6. Struts north and south
7. Deck
8. Deck beams
9. Trunk through the cabin
10. Fascia
11. Railing
12. Corner posts
13. Log walls
14. Log walls
15. Door
16. Windows and shutters
17. Lanterns inside
18. Roof eaves
19. Roof
20. Roof
21. Roof
22. Roof
23. Gables and ridge
24. Trunk above the roof
25. Ladder
26. Lookout
27. Lookout railing
28. Branches
29. Crown
30. Crown
31. Crown
32. Crown
33. Second spruce
34. Platform
35. Platform railing
36. Rope bridge
37. Bridge posts
38. Second crown
39. Path
40. Path
41. Campfire
42. Crates

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