Inside house made from bottles in Calico, Calif.
Posted on 09/20/2007 8:06:22 AM PDT by joan
A Serbian maths professor has celebrated his retirement by moving into a house he built himself entirely out of plastic bottles.
It took five years and 13,500 bottles for Tomislav Radovanovic, from the central town of Kragujevac, to build the 60sq metre house.
He told the national news agency Tanjug that he hopes to enter the Guinness Book of Records and has already sent them an application.
Only the foundation of the property is concrete, and all other parts of the house are made of plastic bottles that he had been collecting for years.
Even the kitchen furniture and windows are made of plastic bottles.
Radovanovic said his former students had helped him build the property by collecting the bottles he needed.
Quando omni flunkus moritati!
Inside house made from bottles in Calico, Calif.
Does it make whistling and windchime-like sounds when the wind gusts?
LOL
The grand-daddy of em all. Used to drive past this on the way to Tonopah and points East of there - weekly.
Nevada is full of old mining town with more than a little odd in the way of buildings.
Then there is Midas NV, the world largest junkyard.....
ping...
ROFL!
We have a winner!
He can change the color of his house by just filling the bottles with different color stuff.
Still, it’s about the ugliest house I think I have ever seen and a huge waste of effort.
I think someone should send a photo to the “Webster” folks - the ones who publish dictionaries. The photo might be useful under the entries for “Tacky”, “Kitschy”, “trashy”, etc.
In the Pittsburgh/SW PA area, anyone Slavic was/is a Hunkie, and I heard it was slang for Hungarian, specifically for Slavs emigrating from the Austro-Hungarian region. I heard that a lot from my Pittsburgh relatives, though I grew up north of there. I'm not Hungarian either. I still occasionally make 'Hunkie soul food', i.e. noodles with cooked cabbage, pierogies, etc.
.. yup , his version of Highly Combustible Siding
So that’s what Ricardo Monteban has been up to.
I once saw a photo of a house built from empty jars of embalming fluid. IIRC it was somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Seriously, in third world countries with warm climates, plastic bottles filled with dirt or sand would make good walls. Build a simple box frame out of 6 x 6s, and then fill in the walls with these “bricks.” The holes could be back-filled with clay, dirt, rags or paper.
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