Windows of opportunity
Even more striking than the reclaimed windows that serve as the walls of Christina Salway’s Catskills treehouse are the wide vistas they look out to. During a recent visit, Salway spent hours watching a rainstorm. “It was an unbelievable lightning display across the field,” says Salway, who works as the interior designer on “Treehouse Masters.” (The perch appeared in an episode that aired in January 2017.) “It’s an ever-changing space where each experience outdoes the previous one.” Salway shares this treehouse — which stands on the grounds of her second home in Callicoon — with husband John Moskowitz and their 6-year-old son, Julian. The family, who lives in Brooklyn, built the treehouse to add to their overall living and recreation space — and tapped Nelson Treehouse for the work. (Salway declined to comment on the cost; in general, Nelson says a 200- to 400-square-foot build averages $300,000.) Inside the roughly 150-square-foot space, there’s a hanging daybed, a propane fireplace and a farmer’s work bench that Salway uses as a desk. A wraparound deck has space for bistro-style seating and a fireman’s pole that Julian loves to slide down. “He and his friends, they go racing [to the treehouse] and disappear for hours on end,” Salway says. Though small in size, the treehouse still has plenty of room for gatherings. Salway followed her own advice — a less-is-more decorating attiude. “You don’t want to inundate the space and make it feel dwarfed,” she says.