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.
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.
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.