The BEST episodes of Treehouse Masters

#1 - Mile-High Mancave

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2014

A Texas Dad wants a mancave so he has somewhere to bond with his grandson. Pete builds a 600 square foot Western-style mancave treehouse with cigar humidor, meat smoker, flat screen TV, bathroom, stone walls, and can sleep 5.

#2 - Sky-high Redwood Retreat

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/2014

A nature-loving woman in Humboldt County, California, asks Pete and his crew to build a treehouse that pushes their skills to the limit. She feels cramped in her home and wants a permanent residence 60 feet up in the area’s giant redwood trees. Pete and crew take the comforts of home to new heights in this bohemian-chic, tri-level treehouse, which boasts a bathroom, lounge and bedroom loft spread out throughout three floors with low-hanging lights, tapestries, modular furniture and an overall genie-in-a-bottle aesthetic. The owner dreams of being able to see the Pacific Ocean from her cozy forest perch atop the redwood canopy, and Pete knows that he and his crew are the only ones who can deliver!

#3 - Glasshouse Treehouse

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/2017

Pete treks to New York's Catskill Mountains to build his first glass house in the sky; piecing materials together like a puzzle, Pete uses his clients' collection of 50 vintage windows to construct an elegant tree house encased by walls of glass.

#4 - Treehouse Masters International: Brazil

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/31/2015

Meeting up with South American treehouse impresario Ricardo Brunelli in the heart of Brazil; treehouse travels from the city of Sao Paulo to the farmlands of Parana.

#5 - Nelson Family Treehouse

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2015

Pete Nelson uproots an existing treehouse from the family-owned bed & breakfast Treehouse Point to build a custom-made treehouse as a housewarming gift for his daughter, Emily.

#6 - Treehouse Masters International: Germany

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2015

Join Pete on an adventure in Germany with two renowned treehouse builders - Christopher Richter, a former student, and Andreas Wenning, one of the world's most celebrated treehouse architects - as they tour Deutschland and every treehouse they can find!

#7 - AJ's Wish Treehouse

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/19/2014

An Arizona boy's Make-a-Wish request is granted when Pete designs a tree house with a ramp for his wheelchair and characters from the 2014 film "The Boxtrolls."

#8 - Ultimate Giveaway - Treehouse Special

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/17/2015

On this special episode Pete and the NTS crew build the “Ultimate Treehouse” for the lucky winner of the Ultimate Treehouse Giveaway.

#9 - Levitating Lighthouse

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/2014

A young couple has big dreams of a lighthouse treehouse atop a seaside seawall along the coast of Northwest Washington. Pete is challenged by the property’s incredibly steep grade and must deliver all of his materials to the site by way of barge only! The octagon-shaped, two-story, white-and-red shingled structure, which is housed among a group of cottonwood trees, features porthole windows, a wrap-around balcony, a nautical-themed interior and rainbow-colored glass. The couple, wanting to truly live off the grid, throws Pete a curve ball by asking him for a rainwater shower system, a composting toilet and supply power (where there is none). Surprisingly, Pete delivers a custom gift for the couple's pampered pooch: a 'backyard' high in the air!

#10 - Record-High Recording Studio

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/2014

A family from nearby Seattle wants to expand its already famous rural recording studio up into the trees! Up for the challenge, Pete creates a high-tech, two-story recording oasis more than 36 feet tall with in a group of cedar trees. Marrying music and nature, Pete and crew accent the treehouse with rust-colored metal, patterned, textured cork walls and a massive picture window that overlooks the wild salmon creek below. Upon completion, this musical treetop masterpiece is ready for its first recording session when a Grammy-award-winning megastar arrives at the reveal to lay down a brand-new track.

#11 - Mindbending Silver Maple

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2015

Pete finds inspiration in old tales to build a mesmerizing treehouse, with a curved turret that soars two stories high and a deck to take in the amazing sights, over the stems of a twisty silver maple on the shore of Lake Chelan.

#12 - High Noon Saloon

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2015

Pete gathers up the posse to build a Wild West-themed treehouse in North Bend, Washington; they build a horseshoe-shaped construct with a bedroom, county jail loft, and genuine copper ceiling set 15-feet high in a solitary Douglas Fir.

#13 - Apres Skihouse Treehouse

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/2016

Pete builds ski lodge-style treehouse complete with an indoor-outdoor fireplace and a rooftop snowmaker for a ski-loving family.

#14 - Magical Party Pad

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/28/2015

Pete goes to Nebraska to build a tree house for a fun-loving family who enjoy music, writing and the occasional happy hour.

#15 - Home Tree Home

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/2015

Inspired by South American treehouse maestro Richard Brunnelli, Pete builds a hexagonal live-in treehouse for a Treehouse Workshop graduate in coastal Oregon.

#16 - Treehouse Z

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2016

Pete connects with old friends in Canton, NC to build them Zen-like sanctuary in the trees. Battling a record-fast 9-day build window, the team stays calm in constructing a retreat 15-ft high with a picture perfect view of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

#17 - Treehouse Takeover: The Roderick Experience

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/26/2016

Pete hands the reins over to Roderick for the next build; a spiral staircase wrapped in branches, a hexagonal tower with elegant stained glass windows and a 360 degree observation platform.

#18 - Camo Treehouse

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/2016

Adventurous Texas family, living on a 200-acre ranch, want a camouflaged treehouse that also serves as a guest house.

#19 - Bon-Appé-Treehouse

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2016

Surrounded by fields of red poppies and intertwined within a giant live oak, Pete creates a dining room tree house with a Provence countryside feel as part of a French restaurant.

#20 - Treehouse Point 2.0!

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/26/2016

Pete's son Charlie oversees the latest project, which happens to be a live-in Washington resort and spa, home base for himself on 23 acres of forest.

#21 - International: Scandinavia

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/2017

Pete journeys to the pine-forested splendor of Scandinavia to explore Norway's magical TreeTop Hotel and Sweden's floating Treehotel, with tree homes suspended by cables and accessed only by retractable ladders.

#22 - View from Above

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/26/2013

#23 - Treehive Beehive

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/2015

Pete and his team undertake a sticky challenge and reinvent the classic single-tree treehouse; constructing a magnificent and whimsical beehive-like structure soaring 30-feet high in a majestic Douglas fir.

#24 - Meditating Maple

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/2015

A Seattle couple want a space for meditation, so Pete uses a pair of maples to build a tree house 20 feet high that features curved walls and views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, as well as three flights of animal-friendly stairs.

#25 - Country Superstar Speakeasy

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/15/2014

Brian Kelley – a Southern gentleman who just happens to be half of superstar country-pop sensation Florida Georgia Line – is dreaming of a treehouse that he can “cruise” to with his gorgeous new wife in their home outside of Nashville. It is a three story whimsical, speakeasy-themed creative space built at the edge of a ravine below their home, perched in two strong oaks and a hickory tree. A sky-high bridge attached to their front porch floats through the tree branches to the second story of the treehouse, allowing the couple to easily access their private refuge. Pete incorporates wood from a treehouse that Brian’s father built for him as a boy, a bedroom, office, writing room, and a fantastic music-recording studio decorated with Guatemalan fabrics and vintage light bulbs.