Turning Oil Tanker Trucks Into Homes

My Dad would fricken love this.

Not so sure about mum though. If she has trouble with the idea of a standard issue caravan, well.

“There are many marvelous ideas for turning old buildings into new habitable structures, but unless the existing units are modular the plans can rarely apply to multiple similar structures over time.

A creative variant on the now-classic cargo container home concept, this rather brilliant design idea by Aristede Antonas not only can be used and reused like a standardized sea shipping container, but suggests a possible upcycling strategy for what may well be another (even-more) quickly-dying breed of land vehicle…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...

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