FIVE INGENIOUS WAYS TO OWN YOUR OWN HOME

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FIVE INGENIOUS WAYS TO OWN YOUR OWN HOME

 

With the price of property and housing having skyrocketed in the last years, and the wages of most developed countries remaining stagnate, new innovative ways to build and live in homes must be devised. These Alternative Houses are changing the way people live, and are causing people living beyond their means to reconsider what really is possible.

Cargo Container Homes

Cheap to buy and use, cargo containers come in various sizes, are waterproof, durable, spacious and readily available to any willing to buy one. Houses in North America have become monstrous and their price and mortgages unsustainable. Building a home with cargo containers could be achieved for a fraction of the costs of a conventional home. Used containers would be recycled and put to use and simple houses easily constructed by using one or more container in concert.

Tree Houses

Living in harmony with nature and your surroundings is quickly becoming a priority for many in the alternative community. Building tree houses that complement and use the trees and terrain to their maximum potential have been catching on in recent years. Tree houses allow people to live in balance with nature and can be constructed for cheaper than any conventional homes in the developed world.

Eco-Homes

Finding ways to save heat and energy, use less materials and limit environmental damage is becoming a new trend with homeowners. Using nature to compliment and lend efficiency to housing is very possible and signs of intelligent design. Saving heat by insulating the home with earth, building houses into hillsides and innovating ways to save heat and energy consumption are just some of the new ways Eco-Homes are changing the face of Housing.

Earth-Bag Houses

Using specially designed long-bags packed with 70% sand and 30% can make a cheap and easy home for next to nothing. Earth-Bag homes are environmentally friendly, and allow owners to make it themselves, saving on labour and construction. Earth-bag homes can be expanded easily, built in a design that can weather most anything and done for literally dirt cheap prices by using earth as the principal construction material.