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Airplane House

By Alex in Architecture, Home & Garden, Pictures on Jul 30, 2008 at 1:43 pm


One of my favorite blogs, WebUrbanist, has a neat post about homes "recycled" from other things. Like this airplane house, for instance:

Joanne Ussery, a hairdresser, was looking for a new mobile home to put next to the lake when her brother-in-law, an air traffic controller, had an unorthodox suggestion. She paid $2,000 for the 727 fuselage, $4,000 for a house-moving company to move it to her lot, and six months and $25,000 to renovate it. The resulting house has some unusual features, and is built to last; (Source)

Check out the rest of the 7 Superb Examples of Recycled Urban ArchitecturesThanks Marilyn Terrell!


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  1. Powell
    Jul 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    Great story! More stories like this.

  2. elizabeth
    Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Wow! Great stuff. It reminds me of Chris Smith's Home Movie.

  3. SenorMysterioso
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 4:02 am

    pretty nice for only $31k

  4. ted
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 6:52 am

    Somebody needs an Extreme Home Makeover. Or therapy.

  5. diogenes
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    most obvious final touch would have to be the emergency inflatable slide that drops you into the lake!

  6. LH
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    The Dutch Chapel is amazing, I love the vitreaux at the sides.

  7. Harry Hex
    Aug 1st, 2008 at 9:01 am

    There's a house like this down in Chile where I fish ... made from a DC-3 that made an emergency landing on a small highway, sustained some damage and then could not be flown or trucked out.

  8. S
    Aug 1st, 2008 at 9:47 am

    legalize marijuana

  9. Tom
    Aug 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Wow, that story is from 1996. I didn't even know CNN was online back then.

  10. the_prophet
    Aug 20th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    Wow! That's crazy!

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