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The House that an Industrious Couple with $500 Built

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(@mattynugs)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWvemw0nj7k   When Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz decided to build a new home, they didn’t meet with architects and designers; instead, they visited antique shops and estate sales — or just looked around the area for discarded items. And over a period of a few months, the couple didn’t just watch their dream house take shape; they built it with their own hands.The home, which they created for a total of about $500 on a piece of property in West Virginia owned by Olson’s family, is made entirely of repurposed windows and salvaged materials. Although it doesn’t have electricity or running water, it has everything the couple needs to watch the breathtaking West Virginia sunsets they so love.They found their first window in Pennsylvania at the site of an abandoned barn just two days before they moved to West Virginia to begin their project.“So that kind of started it for us and we collected them on the way,” Olson says.Olson, a photographer who uses an antiquated technique called the wet plate collodion process to create his work, and Horwitz, a clothing designer who hand-sews everything she designs, left their jobs in Wisconsin to build their home. They refer to themselves as “makers” rather than “artists,” and the painstaking hands-on approach they apply to their artistry is the same technique they used to build their home. They decided to create one wall made completely of windows, stopping at antique sales and even foraging through abandoned properties to complete their design.“Each [window] has a bit of a story to it,” Olson says.  â€œAs an artist, I’ve learned over time that if you have an idea, you can find a way to make it.”


 
Posted : 21/03/2014 11:53 pm
(@tibeirious)
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that….Is alot of windows..





 
Posted : 22/03/2014 6:55 am
(@simonsays)
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And a high heating bill for sure!


I’ve been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could’ve been.
I’ve been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.

I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I’ve endured within
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Posted : 22/03/2014 10:18 am
(@admin_1773609316)
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And a high heating bill for sure!

wood stove in the woods. np.


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Another breath and I'm up another level
It feels good to be up above the clouds
It feels good for the first time in a long time now

 
Posted : 22/03/2014 11:21 am
(@d-the-3rd)
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He who lives in a glass house should throw no stones?

I think that’s it. Close at least. I love old sayings.


"You can't buy happiness… but you can buy weed, which is pretty close."

 
Posted : 22/03/2014 2:44 pm
(@jones)
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A friend built his patio & enclosed it the same way, with windows he found in the trash. He used to nag me to take him to the glass repair guy’s
shop whenever I visited him in my pick-up truck where he would find bunches of dual-pane glass with one pane busted out. Anyhow nobody will
be calling his patio a work of art anytime soon, but it does look similar & as the only white guy living in an entire neighborhood full of illegal aliens
he doesn’t seem to be having any trouble with the planning & zoning people either. Apparently because illegal’s like to hammer bits of trash & broken
wood onto their homes too, which makes his blend right in!


 
Posted : 22/03/2014 3:46 pm
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