| CREATIVE MINDS - NEW DISCOVERIES DIY Pallet House for $500 ~ $3000
Our NED Team loves to share NEW EARTH Ideas … and recently we shared the story of Simon Dale, a Family man from Wales ~ that built his permaculture sustainable ~ “Fairy Tale” Home on a mere $4,700. http://newearthdaily.com/man-builds-fairy-tale-home-for-4700/ Now we bring our NED Readers ~ an inspirational story about a couple of architects, Suzan Wines and Azin Valy ~ based out of Manhattan, New York making a wonderful contribution to sustainable, recylable, reusable, most importantly, affordable ~ housing ideas! Recently, when researching ways to build recycled, recyclable, affordable, and plentiful housing for the refugees of Kosovo ~ they were leaning towards the “tires, bottles, mud, straw” materials of the “Earthships” ~ as creativity would have it, Wines just happened to “trip” over a wooden pallet on her way home that evening, hence, a Home is BORN! Using only shipping pallets, or skids, the I-Beam architects created a tiny, modular home design. They also created “IKEA-style assembly instructions” so anyone ~ even those without building experience ~ could build their own home, using only hand tools (hammer, nails, “a crowbar is helpful”). “We’ve also used zip ties to build entire structures,” adds Wines, “which is pretty quick, cheap and easy and doesn’t require any tools.” Depending on size and materials ~ a Pallet Home can range from $500 to $3,000+. Pallets are easily found in many landfills, old construction trash heaps ~ many Contractors will put them on the side of the road with a sign “FREE ~ YOU HAUL”! It is all about how one thinks “outside of the box” … just HOW creative one wants to become to build a Pallet Home and we here at NED … believe the ideas and possibilities are Endless! With four to five people using power tools, it takes less than a week to build a 250-square-foot home out of 100 pallets. Wines and Valy ~ small, petite women ~ have built a couple of pallet homes themselves with the assistance of a few helpers in locations like Prince Charles’s Royal Gardens and for the Architecture Triennale in Milan. shared in part by ~ |
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