LIKE THE ANNUAL growth rings on a thick tree trunk, the details of Cam and Lauren Green’s treehouse near Minden, Ont., reveal the couple’s backstory in rich layers. “It’s one of those things that feels funny to say, but a lot of what we’ve done in our lives has led us to this point,” Cam says. “The design harnesses all these aspects of the past 20-odd years.”
Named for the Baltic birch plywood panels that line the walls inside, “The Baltic” is a grown-up evolution of the tree forts that Cam used to build when he was a boy. Both he and Lauren grew up as city kids, him in Mississauga, Ont., and her in Burlington, Ont., but learned to appreciate the outdoors during childhood cottage trips. (Cam’s family owned a getaway on Balsam Lake, while Lauren
