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Alternative Living Spaces & No Waste: One Year In A Dumpster

November 9, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

On these virtual pages you’ve seen tales of folks living in school buses, in shipping containers and on trailers, but an Austin professor is taking things even further, at least for a year. Jeff Wilson, environmental science professor and dean at Huston Tillotson University, will be residing in a re-furbished dumpster. He’ll have only 33 square feet…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Austin, No Waste

Alternative Living Spaces: Gorgeous Renovated School Bus

August 23, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

Architecture graduate student Hank Buttita wanted to build a cabin on his grandfather’s land. But building codes made the project cost-prohibitive, so he bought an old school bus off Craigslist for $3K and set about making it livable (and beautiful!) to the tune of about $6K in improvements. It even turned out to become his…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Alternative Transportation, Design, Photography Tagged With: renovated school bus, school bus

Teen Builds Tiny House In Parents’ Backyard

March 21, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

17-year-old Austin Hay has built his own hideout on wheels right in his parents’ backyard. Very cool. (via Faircompanies.com)

Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Alternative Transportation, Design Tagged With: alternative living, austin hay, tiny house

Cargotecture

May 30, 2012 by Pamela Parker Caird 2 Comments

Has my occasional series on alternative living spaces inspired you? Here is another example of what architecture firm HyBrid calls “cargotecture” — spaces recycled from worn-out shipping containers. This one was chosen by Sunset Magazine for its “idea weekend” in 2011. Says HyBrid: “The home was fabricated by OneBuild Modular Manufacturer’s in a single 24′…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Design

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