My parents and I live in a treehouse we made ourselves – my bath’s a cow trough but it’s probably not like you’d imagine
WHEN you think of a treehouse, you probably think of a rustic shack sitting precariously in a tall tree.
But Alison Teal is doing her best to set the record straight about the unique abodes, and took to TikTok to share a video of her homemade treehouse.
“My parents and I built it by hand sustainably,” Alison began.
” We have a bamboo ladder to get up to the treehouse.
“This is my room, up in a mango tree, with my turtle bedspread, my favourite hammock and of course, my bathtub.
“It’s a tank that cows drink out of.”
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As well as her bedroom and bath, she has a toilet with a “bamboo toilet roll holder”.
And if she doesn’t want a bath, there’s a “jungle shower” outside, shaped like a fish, that they can use.
“Let’s go see the rest of the treehouse,” she continued.
“This is our view where I can check the waves and see whales and dolphins.
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“And then if you go up even further in the treehouse there’s my parents’ bathroom and then up, up even further, my parents’ bedroom.
“They have a dolphin bedspread and the best view in the house, wow!”
The house is powered by solar panels, while her dad worked “really hard to run water from a spring up the hill for the whole community”.
Alison’s mum teaches yoga from a yoga room in the treehouse, which has a “really cool ceiling”.
And the family also forage their food from the trees surrounding them, with Alison revealing they’d got coconuts, mango and papaya and apple for that morning.
For anyone worrying that living so remotely means Alison doesn’t have many friends, she insisted that she does – a gecko called Guava.
People in the comments section were quick to weigh in on Alison’s unique living situation, with one writing: “This seems cool but me personally couldn’t do this.”
“no because spiders,” another added.
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As a third commented: “No privacy whatsoever lol.”
In a pinned comment on the post, Alison added that making the treehouse a home has been a “lifetime labor of love and constant work but soul fuelling”.