Haley Phillips, a 9-year-old fourth-grader of Rock Spring Elementary, isn’t planning on staying indoors this summer.
She, her sister Leighanne and cousins Hayden and Dillan will be playing in the open-air recycled treehouse their grandparents, Randy and Patsy Phillips, just finished having built for them.
Haley Phillips shows off the treehouse her grandparents built in Rock Spring.“This was made out of nature into something we all will enjoy,” Haley said. “It’s not plain, there are bright colors everywhere and no walls to close it in. The air comes in and you feel free.”
She doesn’t spend time in front of the television or playing video games and says she likes the freedom of nature. She plans to write songs in her notebook, paint and color, and blow bubbles while in the treehouse, she said.
An abundance of creativity and recycled materials was put into the design and construction, done by Paul Childress of Flintstone, who calls himself an artist carpenter. All the materials used were recycled, reworked and redone, aside from the floor planks, Childress said.