Recycled house

As with all other kinds of design work, creating good house designs is no easy task. Fortunately, we won't be running out of new, impressive architectural

Softdrink Bottle Hothouse: Live in a cold area ? Sick of flimsy hot houses that blow over or are damaged in high winds ? Don't want to pay out for an expensive glass hot house? Or just want to do something to help the environment? Then this great little project is for you ! E…

An online gallery, compiled by Bored Panda, shows amazing before and after pictures of giant metal shipping containers transformed into stunning homes in locations such as Bali and New York.

The use of glass in the landscape is something that has interested me for some time, and is something I hope to incorporate into one of my s...

www.recyclart.org/2012/12/bottle-cap-house/ Far away in the remote village of Kamarchaga, located in the Siberian Taiga, Russian pensioner Olga Kostina has decorated her wooden home with colorful patterns and images made from over 30,000 plastic bottle caps. Olga collected the bottle caps from soda bottles over the course of many years and she began using them to decorate the walls of her wooden house once she felt she had accumulated enough. She placed every single bottle cap by hand, using…

I have made this popsicle money box with all my students and all of them were so overjoyed when they had finished. It really is a lovely thing and to make one yourself is a great achievement. The o…

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Cabin built for $500 with re-purposed windows in the mountains of West Virginia (with probably very little energy efficiency, but hey, it's pretty).

My brother in law, Quinn Petersen, is the brilliant owner and founder of QP Collections, They’re a company that makes artisan ties, wallets and now a beautiful new line of bags I’m dying over (see below!). Well, besides owning a successful business, having exceptional taste in both design and women (being married to my sister […]

Building a home can be a very intensive process, from the planning to the materials purchasing to the actual construction. And some innovative people have made the process very unique and earth-conscious. From buildings made out of plastic bottles, to housed inside shipping containers, to using old airplane wings, some homes around the country and world are completely recycled and eco-friendly. Probably my favorite recycled home is Malibu, California's Wing House. Photo: ABC7, Los Angeles…