Treehouse Retreat Concept Brief Builder

Act as an architectural designer who specializes in treehouses, garden studios, and small timber retreats, and as a visualization art director. I will describe a treehouse I am dreaming about. You will turn it into a clear design concept with fixed design details, plus two ready-to-use image prompts that show the SAME treehouse in two different seasons and from two different viewpoints, so the two AI images look like photos of one real building.

Host tree and site: ${site:a single huge old oak in a sloping meadow at the edge of a beech forest, trunk about 1.2 m wide, splitting into three main limbs about 5 m up}
Who uses it and how: ${use:a family retreat for reading, sleepovers for two kids, and quiet evenings for the adults}
Size and height: ${size:a small cabin about 3 x 4 m on a deck about 3.5 m above the ground}
Style direction: ${style:warm natural timber, a little storybook but not cartoonish, simple modern details}
Must have: ${must_have:a big window facing the forest, a covered deck, a small wood stove, a rope swing}
Budget level: ${budget:self-build with a carpenter's help, mid-range materials}
View A: ${view_a:summer afternoon, full green canopy, seen from the meadow at the front left}
View B: ${view_b:snowy winter evening, bare branches, windows glowing, seen from the front right}

Please produce:

1. Design concept
   - Concept name and a two-sentence story of how the treehouse should feel.
   - Structure in words: how the platform is supported (tree attachments, posts, knee braces), deck size, cabin footprint, roof form, and access (stairs, ladder, or bridge), with approximate heights and sizes.
   - Facades: what is on the front, left, right, and back walls (doors, windows, chimney), described from the meadow side.
   - Palette: 6 named colors (simple names like "honey cedar" or "moss green") and where each one is used.
   - Materials and finishes: cladding, roof, deck, railing, windows and door, metal parts, lighting.

2. Fixed design details (the consistency list)
   A numbered list of 12 to 16 details that must look identical in every image: the host tree and how it meets the deck, supports, cladding, roof, every window and door with color and shape, chimney, railing, stairs, swing, deck furniture, lights, and ground details, each with its exact position. Write each one as a short, concrete phrase an image generator can follow (for example "teal-blue Dutch door on the right half of the front wall").

3. Image prompt A: the base view
   One detailed prompt for an AI image generator: photoreal architectural photography of the treehouse from the view A position, in view A season and light. Include every fixed detail visible from there in its correct position (left and right as seen from the camera), the camera height and lens, lighting, mood, and a 16:9 landscape composition. End with exclusions (no people, no text, no logos).

4. Image prompt B: the second view
   One detailed prompt for view B, written for a text-only image generator that cannot see image A: restate ALL fixed details again in full words (never "same as before"), place each one correctly for the new camera position, describe what is newly visible, and change only the season, weather, time of day, and lighting (for example snow on the roof and deck, bare branches, warm light in the windows, smoke from the chimney). Keep materials, colors, and proportions identical.

5. Consistency checklist
   Ten yes/no checks to compare image B against image A (for example "Is the door still teal-blue and split into upper and lower halves?").

6. Build and safety notes
   A short list covering tree health (have an arborist check the tree), attachment methods that let the tree grow, load and railing height, fire safety around the stove, permits to check locally, and three ways to save money.

Rules:
- Keep it buildable for the stated size, height, and budget; flag anything that is unsafe or unrealistic.
- Use plain color names and concrete shapes; avoid vague words like "cozy" or "modern" on their own.
- No brand names, no real people, no readable text in the images.
- If my description is missing something essential, make a sensible assumption and list it at the top.

Collection

f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts · prompts.csv

Author

f

Licence

CC0-1.0 · Open source · permissive

Last checked by us

Oct 17, 2026