BY: HANNAH THOMAS You’ve searched and searched but you just can’t find it; you want it to have a structure that will withstand the burden of time, but won’t be costly. Well, if you can’t find it, then build it.…
The Weirdest and Most Creative Places People Have Turned into Homes
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE These eccentric homeowners wrote the handbook on unconventional living. If you think your first apartment was small, check out these weird, quirky, and outright strange places people have decided to set up shop temporarily and permanently. These…
Inspired by Lego, a company is using disaster debris as building blocks for new homes
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It was five years ago that a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, affecting more than three million people. Over 250,000 houses and 30,000 buildings collapsed, leaving people without jobs and families without homes. The nights that followed the…
Bulletproof, fireproof, environmentally friendly homes are being made from plastic bottles
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The streets of downtown Toronto are vibrant and busy at all times of the day. During the day business women rapidly click their heels and talk a mile a minute into their cellphones. Students hustle off to…
This guy shows you how to build a woodland fortress and make nature your bitch (Video)
An un-named YouTuber under the channel, Primitive Technology, builds a two metre by two metre hut in the woods, using exclusively materials resourced from the small patch of forest. In place of an axe, he uses a sharp stone, and…
Artist couple built a cabin made of recycled windows in the West Virginia mountains for $500 (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In 2012, somewhere within the vast forests of West Virginia, Lilah Horwitz, and her boyfriend Nick Olson were huddled in a tent over a pot of rice and beans planning their way out of the rat race.…
This man built a tiny home in the Pacific-Northwest wilderness for under $500
Though the tiny-house movement has attracted major attention in recent years, there are still two major problems that the average person faces when they think about building their own micro home: 1. Though mini-homes cost pennies compared to a mortgage,…
This Irish artist has built a house literally worth 1.4 billion Euros notes
BY: BRITTANY ROSEN Just when you thought money motive was superseding creativity, European Artist Frank Buckley builds a house made of $1.4 billion in shredded Euro notes. The artist himself is now occupying this eco-friendly house. Buckley, an all-around artist…
If you’re sick of suburbia and paying heating bills, Earthships might be your way out
BY: DANIEL KORN Earthships, created by architect Mike Reynolds, are houses constructed with a combination of natural and recycled material that have been built for minimal reliance on public utilities or fossil fuels. Structural walls are typically made of recycled…
This unregulated California commune is widely known as “the last free place in America” (Photos)
BY: TED BARNABY Welcome to Slab City, widely known as “the last free place in America.” The entrance is marked by a small hill caked with eccentric acrylic paint, promising love and preaching faith, all in bright pink letters. This…
This family lives on a floating fortress of greenhouses in the middle of the ocean
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In Clayoquot Sound, BC, tucked away in the coastal inlets of Cypress Bay, and about a half-hour by boat off the coast of Tofino, live Catherine King and Wayne Adams—the owners and operators of Freedom Cove. Freedom Cove…
These tree houses will make you want to give up on society and move to the woods (Photos)
Every child envisions building the most epic tree house of all time, but most creations end up being little more than crooked nails and soggy plywood that make you scared for your life to stand on. These warriors of the…
You could build a luxury tiny house with shipping containers for $2,000 (PHOTOS)
Living in luxury doesn’t always necessarily mean having a home with thousands of square feet, crystal chandeliers, and golden-plated toilets. With a little imagination a shipping container becomes a building block that you can use to design your own house.…