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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
#3 by louie jerome, Aug 25, 2008
Very interesting article
#4 by neelam pandey, Aug 25, 2008
very interesting article with unique pictures.
#5 by valli, Aug 25, 2008
Thanks for the encouraging comments Chan, Rookie, Louie and Neelam.
#6 by IcyCucky, Aug 25, 2008
Very interesting ideas, uses, and environmentally friendly :-)
#7 by Karen N, Aug 25, 2008
That's great! I would love to see some of them in person.
#8 by nobert soloria bermosa, Aug 25, 2008
awesome houses,
#9 by Christy Tuller, Aug 25, 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!
#10 by Rookie Expert, Aug 25, 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.
#11 by valli, Aug 25, 2008
Thanks for your encouragement Icy, Karen, Nobert, Christy and Rookie.
#12 by swapna, Aug 26, 2008
very nice article....thanks....
#13 by Moses Ingram, Aug 26, 2008
Great article- amazing what some people will build a house from.
#14 by Darlene McFarlane, Aug 26, 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.
#15 by valli, Aug 26, 2008
Thanks for reading and commenting Swapna, Moses and Darlene.
#16 by Anne Lyken-Garner, Aug 27, 2008
A very enjoyable read here Valli.
#17 by webrouzer, Aug 27, 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.
#18 by Ruby Hawk, Aug 27, 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.
#19 by valli, Aug 27, 2008
Thanks for the info Ruby and thanks for reading Anne and Webrouzer.
#20 by Alexsa Gates, Aug 28, 2008
id hate it rained and you lived in the newspaper house! great article!
#21 by valli, Aug 28, 2008
Thanks Alexa.
#22 by R J Evans, Aug 31, 2008
Cool article - great subject!
#23 by valli, Sep 1, 2008
Thanks RJ Evans for reading and commenting.
#24 by Liane Schmidt, Sep 9, 2008
Very cool article.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
#25 by valli, Sep 10, 2008
Thanks Liane for reading and commenting.
#26 by ThisNachoIsCalledNic, Sep 13, 2008
Wow! I am loving the beer can wall! and the paper house! and the scap building! This is great!
#27 by valli, Sep 13, 2008
Thanks for the comment, ThisNachoIsCalledNic.
#28 by Lindalulu, Sep 23, 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
#29 by jo oliver, Sep 24, 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
#30 by Laura, Oct 2, 2008
so for the cardboard and newspaper houses? what happenes when it rains?
