Wait a second. What part of this appears to be expensive? The paint job is pretty simplistic. The tree is probably just a bunch of pvc covered in fabric. The desk is a plank with sticks, and the rest is just some crappy pine. What's worse is that after all this, the kid is STILL in a little twin bed in what appears to be the basement.

Mom and dad may be artistic but based on this I certainly don't see that they're rich.

Or maybe I'm just jealous...

homerjay

Forget the kids. I want to live in it.

indy360

Yea, that's what money will get you. Only awesome stuff.

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

Crap! That kid's room is bigger than my whole apartment!

jwest

i thought we were cool to paint my daughters room with a farm scene top to bottom, with the ceiling fan being the sun, the closet being a barn and clouds, pastures n shit all the way around.

maybe if/when i move up a few tax brackets....

emergeoriginal

@cartman005: Nice.

Thing is, if I had a lot of money, I'd probably do a lot of crap to the kid's room too. Train sets. Gotta have train sets. LEGO's up the wazzoo.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Stupid spoiled rich kid.

cartman005

I work construction for a pretty upperclass company (15 million dollar homes) and have seen what money can purchase for the children of the rich. In most cases I stand there and find myself stupified by the absurdity, but then I realize that if I were to have as much money as the people I build for then I would do the same exact thing.

basicvisual

Is there another little treehouse inside that one just for the cat?

craighyatt

Whilst the idea is cool I think the execution is somewhat poor. If I was spending money to do this right I'd want both tree trunks to be real. Those painted abominations are what lets the whole theme down.

jimbowyer

@Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity: Didn't you notice the mounting bracket in the ceiling? I would assume it's going to be for a swing. What type of swing might depend on the "activity".

BigDogues

I hope he keeps his room clean.

Curves

@indy360: Ditto. Just think of the storage room you would have if your bed was mounted to the ceiling! If course, it would limit certain activities if it didn't have enough head room. But I'm sure you could work around that limitation.

Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity

What? No monkeys?

BiZarRroBALlmeR

My 55 co-worker is taking a week off to go up to his land near the boundary waters to build a man-sized treehouse.

He's built three harleys now this.

FThorn

Sometimes I forget why I'm working to become an investment banker.

Then gizmodo shows me some crazy shit like this. I'm gunna be the coolest dad on the block.

michaelwiggins

while I enjoy some rich people bashing as much as anyone else, this could probably be done pretty cheap. it's basically a loft bed with some side paneling. I mean, considering people don't think much when parents buy $300 video game systems for their kids that they'll grow tired of in a year or two, what's $500 - $1000 for the room they'll live in?

Norcross

@indy360: Forget you. I want to live in it.

SinAmos

@robpruitt: Yeah we need to start sending kids off into the wild to fend for themselves, and if they come back, they can call themselves Spar...I mean....I dunno, something.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Its always nice to get a good start based in some cold, hard reality. I can see how this will prepare this young lad or lass for the struggles ahead.

robpruitt

Looks like a whack shack, no use in arguing otherwise.

e-friend

"When I was a kid, I didn't have any fancy indoor treehouse to sleep in-just a cot and some newspaper."

Who would have known you would be here making millions in Gizmodo?? Uncle Sam, that's who, you reached the american dream!

VakeroRokero

D: Thanks, Giz. Now I want to spend my tuition money on this. Except cooler. But then again, my fianceeIS an engineering major...

This could be a really fun joint project for when we get a house!

Khuluna

Am I the only one who noticed the bars on the windows? Oh yes....enjoy your faux tree house little ones. It is as close to a real tree as YOU will ever get.

Rand

This looks like a basement. I've seen a few very creative basement playcenters and this looks to be one of them. I think that the tree-fort bedroom isn't so much a real bedroom as it is an indoor tree fort.

If this room exists in a cold (or harsh) climate, it may be a very legitimate if not common thing. I know that there are a lot of indoor play centers in the Great White North and it would make A LOT of sense to me to finish a basement this way if the kids were stuck inside for long cold snaps and the like.

DaveTyranham

Yeah, except when you're 35 and still living with your mother it's even harder to get chicks if you're curled up in that thing.

I still want it though...

Metkis

@BiZarRroBALlmeR:

It's all fun and games until the monkey flings it's poo.

How come I didn't get a killer dad? I want to return mine.

FrankenPC

Left this page up and went to the kitchen to grab a soda.

BAD MISTAKE

Now our twins are screaming that they must have this bedroom set for their birthdays with also coincide with Christmas

Marketing NYC

I am truly jealous. When/If I have kids, I would not mind building something like that.

thammuz

@emergeoriginal: "...pastures n shit all the way around." Wow, you even included the feces? That's dedication!

For all the complaints about spoiled kids, this idea is pretty cool (in my opinion). I'd rather do this than some of the other more expensive and absurd crap. But you must remember to include a parent-controlled trap door so you can get the little bugger out whether s/he wants to come out or not.

hnkelley

@DozeUser: Man now i have started thinking of that, and i have now disturbed myself...

DozeUser

@Metkis: But dude IMAGINE all of the lame pickup lines, just like that toast shaped inflatable matress.

DozeUser

sooo.............they wanted the inside of their house to look like the outside of their house

it reminds me a little of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

y don't those drawers have knobs/handles?(see last pic)

cy3

I guess to me having a room like this is a little like getting a current model Porsche 911 for your 16th birthday. It just doesn't leave a lot of room for improvement later.

As far as being sent off to the wild to fight animals in your extreme youth.. its a tried and proven method ;)

robpruitt

I wish I actually was eight instead of just acting like it.

Uberdude328i

Given the placement of the windows (and the apparent bars) this seems like an elaborate ruse to distract the children from realizing that their parents have them living in the basement.

Respectthebox

oops... cy3 already said that... sorry...

superlupi

it looks like an EXTREME MAKEOVER Home Edition kids bedroom...

superlupi

Great... just one more thing to keep kids indoors so they grow up obese and socially handicap.

kwilliam71

I would've killed to have this as a kid. I want it now

lizardw