Girl swings on rope in garden beside detached workshop with grey and bright orange metal siding and home in the Black Pearl neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana LA, designed by Emilie Taylor and Seth Welty of design firm Colectivo.

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For the house’s foundation, Emilie and Seth went with a raised concrete slab on top over wooden piles, which was $39,570. That includes a burnished finish for the ground-floor apartment and the foundation for a detached backyard workshop, some of which was fashioned out of remnants of a dismantled Tulane building. They built the tree house using fence boards and building sills from the original home on the lot.