Take a Look inside a $11.5 Million Doomsday-Proof House
If I had a house like this, maybe I wouldn’t mind an end-of-the-world type scenario at all. I’m talking about a 4,200 sq. ft. mansion located in Yellow Jacket, a deserted town in Colorado, U.S. I call it a mansion only for its interiors. From the outside, it looks every bit like the disaster-ready, Armageddon-proof […]
English Farmer Builds Incredible Hobbit House for Just 150 Pounds
At a time when housing rates are hitting the roof, an English farmer has gone and built a house for almost nothing. 59-year-old Michael Buck spent a measly £150( $250) to construct a small, yet cozy house in the garden of his Oxfordshire home. The former art teacher drew plans for the house on the […]
Israeli Women Convert Old Public Transportation Bus into Beautiful Living Space
Two women from Even Yehuda, Israel, seem to have found a practical solution to the country’s growing housing problem. They have taken a beat-down public transportation bus and turned it into a luxury home anyone would be lucky to live in. Tali Shaul, a psychotherapist, and Hagit Morevski, an ecological pond water treatment specialist, became friends […]
Eccentric Businessman Builds Mountain Villa atop Beijing Apartment Building
Zhang Biqing, a successful Chinese businessman from Beijing, has spent the last six years building a realistic-looking two-story mountain villa atop a high apartment building right in China’s capital city. Wouldn’t it be great if you could retreat somewhere quiet and get away from it all, without actually leaving your home? That’s probably what Zhang […]
Chinese Human Snail Carries His Home on His Back Wherever He Goes
38-year-old Liu Lingchao is a real-life human snail who carries his 60-kg-heavy house on his back wherever he goes. Made of bamboo poles and plastic sheets, the portable home provides shelter on Liu’s long travels through China. Liu Lingchao makes a living selling plastic bottle and metal cans he picks up from the streets of […]
Ultimate Privacy – The House Built in the Middle of a River
Have you ever dreamed of having a home in the middle of nowhere to escape to every now and then? I have. And this house built straight in the middle of the Drina River in Serbia fits the bill perfectly. Standing on an exposed rock bang in the center of the river, near the town […]
Dark Side of Hong Kong – People Living in Metal Cages
Hong Kong is generally known the world over for its material comforts and affluent lifestyle. But there’s a dark it as well that not many are aware of. Parallel to the wealthy citizens of Hong Kong there exists a community that is unable to cope with skyrocketing housing prices. These people are quite literally forced […]
Would You Pay $600 a Month to Live in a Human Locker Room?
It’s no secret that Tokyo is one of the most crowded cities n the world. It’s also got some of the smallest apartments in the world, but a recent news program showed this whole housing problem is getting ridiculous. People are paying huge rents to live in coffin-sized apartments. Just looking at photos of these […]
Family Is Literally Living under a Rock in the Mexican Desert
For the last three decades, Benito Hernandez and his wife have been living under a huge rock, in Mexico’s Coahuila Desert, 80 kilometers from the US border. Benito Hernandez started visiting the 40 meter diameter rock that now serves as a roof for his sun-dried brick home when he was just eight years old. He […]
California Water Tower Is Actually a Beautiful 3-Storey House
If you look at the structure located at 1 Anderson Street, Seal Beach, California, you can see nothing but an ordinary water tower. But after a closer inspection you’ll realize it’s not filled with water, but common household items. It was several years ago, when the 100-year-old 9-storeys-tall water tower with a capacity of 75,000 […]
Chinese Motorway Built Around House Because Residents Refuse to Move
A half-demolished building stands in the middle of a new motorway in in the city of Wenling, China’s Zhejiang province, after its elderly residents refused to move. Talk about an accident waiting to happen… Cars travelling at high speeds in the Chinese city of Wenling have to go around a building located right in the middle […]
For English Family Living in the Middle of a Cemetery Every Day Is Halloween
Would you be brave enough to spend a night in an old mortuary chapel surrounded by dozens of graves? One English family is more than happy to sleep in such a house every night, and say it’s actually their dream home. Jayne Stead and partner Mike Blatchford didn’t seem to mind the creepy graves and […]
Chinese Family Turn Abandoned Toilet into Cozy Home
“There’s no place like home!”, I believe the saying goes, and this modest migrant family from China proves it applies even when home is an abandoned public toilet in the city of Shenyang. Zeng Lingjun was born in a small village, in the Jilin Province of Northeastern China. As a boy, he dreamed of one […]
Chinese Couple Convert Cargo Truck into Mobile Home
Unable to buy a real house, a young couple in Kunming, China, have opted to convert a small cargo truck into a comfy mobile home. It’s hard to imagine someone living comfortably in the back of a truck, but the high housing prices in China have forced young people to be resourceful and find all […]
Ingenious Architect Uses Aluminum Cans as Shingles for His House
Richard Van Os Keuls has used flattened aluminum soda and beer cans as siding for his plywood house extension, after deciding conventional materials were too expensive. Van Os Keuls, an architect from Silver Spring, Maryland, first got the idea of incorporating flattened aluminum cans into his trade after seeing a car drive over a discarded […]