Cool grain silo house
What would you think if someone told you they lived in a grain silo? You might imagine them sleeping on a bed of hay and bathing in a horse trough. Maybe they’re guarding a missile or tending to a...
View ArticleNew trend for home-based businesses: “Shedquarters”
Great for maintaining privacy and uninterrupted workflow, surprisingly cozy, and stylish, space-efficient work spaces have become all the rage lately. Here are some examples of a growing trend of...
View ArticleThe Ecocapsule is a new super green micro dwelling
Nice Architect, a Slovakian company, has created the ecocapsule, a new kind of super green micro dwelling. The ecocapsule is powered by a built-in wind turbine and solar cells, and its egg-like shape...
View ArticleAlex Le Roux 3D prints ‘Tiny House’ in just 24 hours
The construction industry itself is dominated by huge corporations with equally huge budgets, many small startups and even one-man businesses. Among them is Alex Le Roux, a Houston, Texas-based student...
View ArticleAmerica’s great renter boom is over
The foreclosure crisis dumped a lot of high earners who have traditionally bought homes into the rental market. Rapidly rebounding housing markets, with skyrocketing home prices in big cities, kept...
View ArticlePipe dreams: can ‘nano apartments’ solve Hong Kong’s housing crisis?
The city with the world’s tiniest and costliest living spaces may soon convert drainpipes into homes. The aim is to get young people on the property ladder – but how small is too small? “Both indoors...
View ArticleCan’t find an affordable home? Try living in a pod
It’s dorm life for adults: A PodShare co-living building in Venice Beach, Calif., where dorm beds go for about $1,400 per month with shared kitchens and bathrooms. The cost of housing is out of reach...
View ArticleAn Austin startup can 3D-print tiny homes in 24 hours for a fraction of the...
Icon will 3D-print six more tiny homes at a property in Austin housing the city’s homeless population. Katie Canales/Business Insider Icon is an Austin startup that designs 3D-printing technology...
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