For those who can’t manage stairs, an electrically-powered bosun’s chair takes you all the way up via two floor hatches. With those views, it only made sense to put the main living area at the top. ![]() ![]() Like the fire lookout towers that inspired it, this one has wrap-around windows offering 360 degree views of Oregon’s high desert landscape. Of course the pinnacle of a tower is the whole point of building one. If the stairs had been design with a U shape instead then it would be easy to get two bedrooms on that floor. It’s big enough to be split into two bedrooms except that the L-configuration of the stairs means that people going up and down pass through the office space. The bedroom is quite big, including a home office space and large closet. Heading up to the second floor, you find the bedroom and a full bathroom. The ability to route-find and the fitness to ascend 2,200 feet in 4 miles is required. Visitors must carry their gear uphill, through old-growth ponderosa forest, to the mountain’s 7,195-foot summit. A disadvantage of a tall and skinny design is that stairs eat up a lot of the floor area, in this case 150 ft 2 (13.9 m 2) of it. The lookout, perched on the edge of the high desert northeast of Klamath Falls, features a wood-burning stove and no modern amenities. The other half of the lowest floor has the entry, a small workshop/utility area, a powder room and, of course, the stairs. The three-storey tower has a footprint of 20′ by 20′ but a garage takes up half the ground level, leaving 1,000 ft 2 (92.9 m 2) of living space. The tower’s design was based on 1930s-era Forest Service lookout towers. Many years later and with the help of her son, architect Brent Alm, she brought her dream to life. Have you ever seen a forest fire lookout tower and imagined what an amazing little house it could be? Glenda Kaser Alm was a young girl when she visited a 75′ tall lookout tower with her dad, and she decided then and there to one day live in a tower house.
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