20 superb houses made from other things

Because bricks and wood are so old school.


For some owners, regular wood and red brick no longer cut off. Bottles of beer and paper to water towers and shipping containers, old materials and buildings find residences of second residences, as well as houses. So, if you areOn the market for a new single home Or just love Artsy, an architecture looking for attention, read it to learn more about superb houses made from other things.

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A house made of an old boat; Met-in-bay, Ohio

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A former cargo ship, theBenson Ford was originally built in 1924 by the Ford Motor Company and used on the seas until 1981. However, after being sold to father-and-sonJerry and Bryan KasperThe boat has been renovated in its rest location in a five-bedroom five-bath home with a magnificent view of Lake Erie.

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A house made of glass bottles; Prince Edward Island, Canada

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Bottle houses Prince Edward Island is a collection of three houses entirely constructed of glass bottles. After sending a postcard from a Vancouver Island glass castle in 1979,Edouard Arsenault, The Creator, was inspired by using more than 25,000 recycled bottles to build fantastic houses.

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A house made from Adobe and recycled glass bottles; Taos, New Mexico

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What if you could live only on natural energy? Well, believe it or not, you can at this Adobe and this bottle of recycled glass in Taos, New Mexico. It's part of theTextual community, asustainable Community of pioneering architecture by the architectMichael Reynolds In the 1970s, it is full of solar houses, outside grilles, made up of local natural and local materials in the region.

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A house made from a former coast guard station; Pembrokeshire, Wales

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Built in 1905, thisOld life jump house Is located in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the port city of Tenby, overlooking Carmarthen Bay. This old seaside building was formerly used by theRoyal Institution of the National Rescue Canoe, a cloak service in the United Kingdom, before being passed in private residential mode.

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A house made of clay; Villa de Leyva, Colombia

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Easily considered the largest piece of pottery in the world,Casa Terraçotta is a clay house located at the villa of Leyva, Colombia. Finished in 2012, the house was designed as part of a broader architect projectOctavio Mendoza Morelas, who flies and cooked the building as one could other pottery.

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A house made from a former shipping container; Serdang, Malaysia

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Although shipping containers used for new creations are not an unknown phenomenon, this vacation rental in Seryang, Malaysia, is easily one of the most beautiful Boucyclais with the material. With vibrant reds and yellow hues, this shipping container house is part of theNafas Cube Community, collaboration between the National Farmers Organization and the Institute of Agricultural Research and Malaysian Development.

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Dwellings made from old stables; London, England

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This building once housed cars and stables pulled by horses. Today, however, it's part of a great, 89 home collection of residential houses transformed in London calledGateway from Prince Mews, Then, that after once lodged, the horses are now home to humans.

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A house made from old paper; Rockport, Massachusetts

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The paper house is the creative idea of ​​the mechanical engineerElis Stenman, who started working at homeas a hobby In 1922. Built in Rockport, Massachusetts, the house is constructed from mounds and diary mounds. And, if it's not impressive enough, there are even furnitureinside Made from newspaper, as well as a real paper piano.

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A house made from mud and reused materials; Negev Desert, Israel

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This house built of mud and reused materials - is only a building in the Israeli ecological movement up and coming. TheBack to the movement of the EarthAs we know, has been a pioneer byNitzan Iserovitch, which has been inspired to connect people through a natural and sustainable life.

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A house made from old tires; Birmingham, England

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This ecological building and two floors is made from recycled tire parts. Conceived byAidan Quinn, the small, but lastingEco Pod is a form of low carbon economy of alternative powered by wind and solar energy.

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A house made from recycled windows; London, England

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Created as a school project by a second year student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, theGlass house lantern is fully made from recycled windows. The project began in 2015 and, following a fundraising campaign, the structure was established in completely. Currently, you canVisit the unique unit In the Cross Zone of Kings in London.

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A recycled wooden house; Warwickshire, England

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Although wooden houses are scarcely rare, it in Warwickshire, England, is anything but ordinary. The fanciful design presents recycled wood with things like doors, cabinets, windows - just about everything. The building does not try any attempt to hide the old use of wood, which is only all this more unique.

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A recycled cork house; Essex, England

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This small beach house is part of Cork recycled in Essex, England, was ordered in collaboration between architectLisa Shell and artistMarcus Taylor. But why cork? The idea is from a joke because of the buoyancy of Cork, Shell revealed to theArchitects newspaper.

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A house made of old rail transport; West Sussex, England

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Outdoor fireplaces appeared throughout England as coastal houses, according toThe Institute for Conservation of Historic Buildings. Located in West Sussex, this former train trolley is a great example of this trend because it has been restored in a beautiful antique style house after surviving its days on the slopes.

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A house made from glass bottles; Rhyolite, Nevada

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This glass bottle is located in the ghost town of Rhyolit, Nevada. Built byTom Kelly In 1906, it's the only one to stand up with aCollection of old bottles houses Built in the old West during this time. The house is currently in possession of the office of Land Management and, while visitors can venture to four roads 95 to catch a look, no one is allowed to enter (or live).

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A house made of an old water tower; Hamburg, Germany

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Located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg,WASPERTURM Gross sand was built in 1910 by the architectWilhelm Brünicke.The old tower of the water housed emergency apartments all the way back inThe Second World WarBut now it's entirely residential.

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A house made from an old windmill; Surrey, England

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Built in 1924, theWRAY COMMON MILL was originally used as a windmill tower in Surrey, England. After its discharge, it was converted to a well-made residential home house with a set of unique circular windows and a terrace.

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A house made from an old fishing boat; Seine-Maritime, France

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This beautiful cabin is located in Seine-Maritime, in France, right next to the northern coast near the Channel. Its main structure is an old fishing boat, removed from the water after its blindness no longer corresponding to its initial goal.

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A house made from older bottles; New South Wales, Australia

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Accommodation currently on the bottle House Mining Museumtourist attraction, this househas been created throughTex DECKEL In the late 1960s, with a 5,800 glass bottles of 5,800 glass bottles. Moeckel has created his house in New South Wales, Australia, despite typical high temperatures and lack of insulation of the house.

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A house made of an old water tower; Cornwall, England

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You want to sleep in the rapunzel tower? Well, your fairy-tale dreams can actually turn - at least somewhat some Cornwall, England. There you will find a19th century-Tour-Tour-la-Chaussée, and it is available to book for overnight stays. And for more ways to transform old things, check these50 new incredible uses for everyday items .

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