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How to get free land and (nearly) free houses in the United States
by Marshall Brain | December 2, 2010
The economy is tough right now. Unemployment is persistently high. Jobs are hard to find. What if you want to start over, sort of like the homesteaders of the 1800s? You stake your claim to free land and create your life from scratch. It can be done today in two different ways. This article points [...]
Imagine a house that is 27 stories tall. And six of those stories are for the parking garage for 160 cars. Imagine a house that covers 37,000 square meters (nearly 400,000 square feet)(as big as 160 “normal houses” (2,500 square feet each) in the United States). It’s that big in part because it has a [...]
It is possible to pack a lot of camper into a small trailer, as you can see in this video describing the Campfire travel trailer, also known as a micro-camper… The cool thing is that you can actually build this kind of camper yourself. These videos show you the steps…
It turns out that there was another metal prefab house that pre-dated it. It was designed by the legendary Buckminster Fuller, and it came before he had invented the geodesic dome. It was called the Dymaxion House. It was a round aluminum and glass structure intended to be manufactured like an airplane to provide the perfect home. Although the Dymaxion house never made it into production, two prototypes were produced. One of them is at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan, as seen here…
Although you can’t buy Lustron homes today, they do represent a different way to build a house. Instead of being made of wood and sheetrock, Lustron homes are made of steel that was stamped in a factory, in much the same way that a car’s body parts are stamped. Then the homes were sold as 3,000-part kits for assembly by the homeowner, as described here…
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