Seven Strange Houses made of Recycled Materials

Published on August 25, 2008 by valli in Architecture
Seven Strange Houses made of Recycled Materials

Would you live in a house made of newspaper? What about a beer can house?

Bottle House

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Kaleva Bottle House was built in 1941 by John J. Makinen. This is located in Kaleva, Michigan and built with 60,000 bottles. The first bottle house was constructed by William F. Peck using 10,000 beer bottles in 1902 in Tonopah, NV.

Beer Can House

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Beer can house was built by John Milkovisch in 1968 with 39,000 beer cans. This is in Houston, Texas. This is opened to public with regular weekend hours.

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There is another beer can house built by Jeff with the help of his father Fred, friends and other family members during 1998-2001. More than 56,000 different cans were used for this house and this is considered the largest beer can house of its kind in the world. The collection is divided into geographic regions, with separate rooms for each region.

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This is Scandinavia room and it includes cans from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Cardboard House

A man in Coimbatore designed a house with cardboards which has two floors. It has portico, hall, kitchen, dining room and toilet all joined together with wood.

Glass House

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The glass house was built in 1949 by Philip Johnson in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Newspaper House

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Newspaper house was constructed by Sumer Erek in London. This was formed with a purpose to show how the free news papers were wasted on the streets. This news paper house was formed with 150,000 discarded free papers and they were packed inside a wooden frame.

Paper Pulp House

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This paper house is made out of news papers and located at the North of Boston, in Rockport, Massachusetts. It was built by Mr. Elis F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer in 1922. He also designed the machines that make paper clips. All the furniture of house also made out of paper.

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This is a piano made out of paper by Elis.

Scrap House

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Scrap house was constructed by a team of San Franscisco architects, artists, contractors and engineers in anticipation of World Environment Day 2005 using only scrap.

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CHAN LEE PENG, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

Very good article!Take care!

Rookie Expert, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

What an maazing idea! Reusing is good, and look how far some of these people have gone. I would love to visit each one of them.

louie jerome, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

Very interesting article

neelam pandey, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

very interesting article with unique pictures.

valli, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

Thanks for the encouraging comments Chan, Rookie, Louie and Neelam.

IcyCucky, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

Very interesting ideas, uses, and environmentally friendly :-)

Karen N, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

That’s great! I would love to see some of them in person.

nobert soloria bermosa, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

awesome houses,

Christy Tuller, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

Amazing! I have seen a few of these on tv but it is still amazing to see what people will use to build with! Great article!

Rookie Expert, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

I had to come back and read this article again. I was thinking about all the trash in my house, so came back to see what i could reuse it for.

valli, posted this comment on Aug 25th, 2008

Thanks for your encouragement Icy, Karen, Nobert, Christy and Rookie.

swapna, posted this comment on Aug 26th, 2008

very nice article….thanks….

Moses Ingram, posted this comment on Aug 26th, 2008

Great article- amazing what some people will build a house from.

Darlene McFarlane, posted this comment on Aug 26th, 2008

How interesting. I wonder how the bottle house was constructed. To look at it, you wouldn’t know what it was made of. The newspaper house makes a good statement. We stopped getting the newspaper because we can read them online.

Good article, Valli.

valli, posted this comment on Aug 26th, 2008

Thanks for reading and commenting Swapna, Moses and Darlene.

Anne Lyken-Garner, posted this comment on Aug 27th, 2008

A very enjoyable read here Valli.

webrouzer, posted this comment on Aug 27th, 2008

I had to come back and read this article again. I was thinking about all the trash in my house, so came back to see what i could reuse it for.
How interesting. I wonder how the bottle house was constructed. To look at it, you wouldn’t know what it was made of. The newspaper house makes a good statement. We stopped getting the newspaper because we can read them online.

Ruby Hawk, posted this comment on Aug 27th, 2008

We are so wasteful. We realy should build our houses from recycled materials.I knew a man who built his house out of tin cans. He filled each can with dirt. I am not sure but I think they were held together by cement. He also flattened out the cans and roofed his house with them.

valli, posted this comment on Aug 27th, 2008

Thanks for the info Ruby and thanks for reading Anne and Webrouzer.

Alexsa Gates, posted this comment on Aug 28th, 2008

id hate it rained and you lived in the newspaper house! great article!

valli, posted this comment on Aug 28th, 2008

Thanks Alexa.

R J Evans, posted this comment on Aug 31st, 2008

Cool article – great subject!

valli, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

Thanks RJ Evans for reading and commenting.

Liane Schmidt, posted this comment on Sep 9th, 2008

Very cool article.

Best wishes.

Sincerely,

-Liane Schmidt.

valli, posted this comment on Sep 10th, 2008

Thanks Liane for reading and commenting.

ThisNachoIsCalledNic, posted this comment on Sep 13th, 2008

Wow! I am loving the beer can wall! and the paper house! and the scap building! This is great!

valli, posted this comment on Sep 13th, 2008

Thanks for the comment, ThisNachoIsCalledNic.

Lindalulu, posted this comment on Sep 23rd, 2008

Nice article. Ive been to the pulp house north of Boston and the place is crazy. The furniture are made so nicely are usable.I also made a beer garden years ago with tons of empty beer cans, we planted them in my Mom’s garden and had a beer garden…hahahaahah

jo oliver, posted this comment on Sep 24th, 2008

Wow…I can not say I would want to live in any of these, but they are really cool. I wonder what kind of person wants to live in a glass house- LOL. Great read. Thanks

Laura, posted this comment on Oct 2nd, 2008

so for the cardboard and newspaper houses? what happenes when it rains?

Fornis, posted this comment on Feb 16th, 2009

All these houses look good but what I don’t understand is, how much safe it is to stay in these houses?

Probably we may not seriously stay in them. They are good for beauty, decoration and exhibition.

Tell, posted this comment on Oct 9th, 2009

If this is really a kick butt Idea how much do they cost to construct???? doesn’t say in the articles. Are they sturdy, or affordable!!???

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