• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • paul wheaton
  • John F Dean
  • r ransom
  • Jay Angler
stewards:
  • Timothy Norton
  • Tereza Okava
  • Pearl Sutton
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • M Ljin
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Megan Palmer
  • Thekla McDaniels

A House Built of Bottles

 
gardener
Posts: 689
Location: Burton, Ohio
358
13
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Mud Here,
In the early 1900s a gold rush brought several thousand people to remote Rhyolite Nevada USA where the expense of bringing in wood and other building materials made life really uncomfortable. 120 years later I wandered by because I had heard about a house built by a saloon keeper almost entirely out of bottles.



 
Chris McClellan
gardener
Posts: 689
Location: Burton, Ohio
358
13
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
 
Chris McClellan
gardener
Posts: 689
Location: Burton, Ohio
358
13
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
 
Chris McClellan
gardener
Posts: 689
Location: Burton, Ohio
358
13
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
 
Chris McClellan
gardener
Posts: 689
Location: Burton, Ohio
358
13
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator


 
pollinator
Posts: 1609
Location: Milwaukie Oregon, USA zone 8b
200
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
That's really cool, and it lasts!
 
Gravity is a harsh mistress. But this tiny ad is pretty easy to deal with:
Quit your workee-job and live, year round, for free-ish in Montana
https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic