This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside
This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside
After struggling to find an apartment rental in London on a budget, Harrison Marshall turned a dumpster into a tiny home for $5,000. Here's a look inside his "weirdly comfortable" 25-square-foot space, where he now lives for $62 a month.
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Why didn't he build a house instead?
Where can you build a house for $5,000?
Just poking fun at the headline. He didn't build a dumpster. He built a house out of a dumpster.
If you were in the building industry/trades already I bet you could scavenge enough materials and borrow the equipment to do it.
He's deliberately built it in a skip because that's the loop-hole. Houses come with all kinds of regs/costs involved - these costs are magnified in London.
There's literally no way you could legally build a house on the land for anything remotely close to that - maybe even at all.
Conversely, you're allowed to put whatever you want in a skip, as long as it fits. And you can put a skip pretty much anywhere on your own property.
The obvious downside is that his house doesn't technically exist. However, the upside is that his house doesn't technically exist also.