Chinese Couple Have Been Living in a Cave for the Past 54 Years
Unable to afford a proper home after getting married, a Chinese couple moved into a mountain cave near the city Nanchong, and have been living there for the past 54 years. 81-year-old Liang Zifu and 77-year-old Li Suying found the cave three years after their wedding, and since they couldn’t afford to buy a real house, […]
San Francisco Man Pays $500 a Month to Live in a Wooden Box
Unable to afford the soaring apartment prices in San Francisco, 25-year-old illustrator Peter Berkowitz built himself a box to serve as his bedroom. Living in the 8×3.5×4.5-foot ‘bedroom pod’ now costs him less than $500 a month. Berkowitz had originally planned to share a two-bedroom apartment with a friend in the city, but later realised that he […]
Dutch Family Is Living in Giant Greenhouse for Three Years as Environmental Experiment
Since June last year, a Dutch family has been living in a wooden cabin in Rotterdam that’s built inside of a large greenhouse. Inhabited by botanical stylist Helly Scholten, her husband, their two teenage daughters, and their pet dog, ‘Concept House’ presents the perfect example of sustainability in the modern world. Not only does it reduce […]
IKEA-Style Home Can Be Built in 4 Days Using Only a Screwdriver
French architecture firm Multipod Studio has come up with a revolutionary housing prototype – the PopUp House. This unique dwelling comes in the form of stackable blocks that anyone can put together IKEA style, using only a screwdriver. It’s supposedly as easy as building with Legos. The company unveiled their PopUp House design in 2014, but was […]
Texas Family Has Ordinary-Looking Barns Converted Into Epic Country Houses
‘Barndominiums’ are becoming a major home improvement trend in North Texas, thanks to Morton Buildings, a construction company that specializes in converting ordinary barns into luxurious dwellings. They started in the year 2000, and they have since transformed thousands of barns and sheds across the US into beautiful mansions. Paul and Judy Pogue, from McKinney, Texas, are […]
Guy Gives Up Lucrative Career to Build Whimsical Treehouse in the Middle of Nature
Unhappy with his high flying career in fashion, New Yorker Foster Huntington gave it all up to live life on his own terms. He is now in the news for building ‘Bro-topia’, an outlandish dwelling made up of two treehouses connected by a swinging rope bridge, on a grassy hilltop in southwest Washington state. It all […]
This Ordinary-Looking House Is Actually a Renaissance Palace in Disguise
From the outside, this house in Newport, Oregon, looks pretty ordinary, with yellowed brick walls, white cladding, and a two-car garage. But you’ll be surprised to learn that inside it’s actually an opulent Renaissance-era palace complete with hand-carved doors, stained-glass windows, and centuries-old antique decor. The unique house belongs to a member of the British nobility […]
Family Builds Glass Greenhouse around Their Home to Warm It Naturally
Even though the average temperature in Stockholm, Sweden, is at a frigid 27 degrees Fahrenheit, Marie Granmar, Charles Sacilotto and their young son enjoy a cozy atmosphre all year round. The young couple have managed to harness the power of the sun by encasing their home in a giant glass greenhouse. Aptly named ‘Naturhus’ (Nature House), the […]
Millionaire Lends His Luxurious Mansions for $1 a Month to People Left Homeless by Tornadoes
A benevolent businessman from Texas has opened up two of his mansions to help house and rehabilitate the victims of the recent tornadoes that devastated the state. Ron Sturgeon, who is reportedly worth $75million, told affected families that they could live in his mansions for three months, at a meagre rent of $1 a month. […]
Architect Turns Old Grain Silo into Amazing-Looking Home
It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but this cylindrical structure is an architectural marvel. It actually used to be an old grain silo from the 1950s, but it’s been transformed a cozy, well-equipped one-bedroom by architect Christoph Kaiser. He now lives in the silo-house – located in Phoenix, Arizona – with his wife. […]
Google Engineer Saves 90% of His Salary by Living Out of a Truck in the Company’s Parking Lot
In a bid to save money, Google employee Brandon S. has made the company’s vast parking lot his home. The 23-year-old software engineer lives out of a box truck parked near the search engine giant’s campus in Mountain View, California. Brandon started work at Google as a summer intern in 2014 – he rented a […]
Rents in San Francisco Are So Outrageous That Young Professionals Prefer Living in Shipping Containers
Unable to afford ridiculously expensive rental housing in San Francisco, young professionals are trying to find interesting alternative living arrangements. One of them literally involves living in a box – there’s a whole village in Oakland where shipping containers are doubling up as tiny apartments! At ‘Containercopia’, you can rent a 160-square-foot metal container complete with […]
This Transforming Castle Truck Is the Most Amazing Mobile Home Ever
Justin and Jola Siezen are an unconventional family. They have adopted a traveling lifestyle and are constantly on the move with their baby son Piko, in a mobile home. But that’s no ordinary mobile home – it’s a magical truck that transforms into a fantasy castle, complete with a kitchen, bedroom, turret bathrooms, and a rooftop […]
Man Spends Six Years Carving Cave Home in the Side of a Hill
After his divorce, Chinese farmer Xu Wenyi longed for a means to escape reality. So he set out on an epic challenge – to dig his own cave dwelling in the side of a hill. It was back-breaking work, but he kept at it for six long years, until his cave home was finally ready. Xu, now […]
Couple Rent Out Their Home on Airbnb for a Weekend, Find It Completely Trashed after Monster Party
When this young Canadian couple got the chance to make a few extra dollars by renting out their three-bedroom home on Airbnb, they took it immediately. Little did they know that two days later, they would find their beautiful home wrecked beyond imagination. Mark and Star King bought their house in 2010, in Calgary’s fashionable […]