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At 21, an Australian artist bought 25 acres in Tasmania; 18 months later a bushfire destroyed her first home, so she rebuilt it from salvage materials into an off-grid cabin for AU$7,000-10,000

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At 21, an Australian artist bought 25 acres in Tasmania; 18 months later a bushfire destroyed her first home, so she rebuilt it from salvage materials into an off-grid cabin for AU$7,000-10,000

She Bought 25 Acres at 21. After the Bushfire, She Built This Cabin From What Survived An Australian artist who used her savings to buy a 25-acre bush block in Tasmania at the age of 21 has built an off-grid home using salvaged materials after a bushfire destroyed her original house just 18 months after … Read more

A New Jersey artist bought a 600-square-foot cabin in 1989 and kept adding to it; 37 years later, Luna Parc is a 5,000-square-foot home, studio and living artwork still being built

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A New Jersey artist bought a 600-square-foot cabin in 1989 and kept adding to it; 37 years later, Luna Parc is a 5,000-square-foot home, studio and living artwork still being built

A ferrocement structure welcomes visitors to the property and has been named the ‘Artichoke Portico’ by Boscarino (Pictures: Spaces Archives) When Ricky Boscarino came across a small 600-square-foot cabin in the woods in New Jersey in 1988, he saw more than just a place to live. A year later, he began transforming it into what … Read more

‘Cabin fire in back’: Laptop catches fire on US flight with over 130 passengers, 5 injured

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Laptop catches fire mid-flight, leaving five passengers with burn injuries on an American Airlines Plane. (Unsplash )

A commercial flight from Atlanta to Dallas was reportedly disrupted after a passenger’s laptop caught fire inside the cabin, injuring at least five people. The incident took place aboard American Airlines Flight 2398 as the aircraft was nearing Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Laptop catches fire mid-flight, leaving five passengers with burn injuries on an … Read more

Why are houses in the Philippines built on wooden stilts to withstand floods, typhoons and intense heat? world news

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Why are houses in the Philippines built on wooden stilts to withstand floods, typhoons and intense heat? world news

Long before concrete and steel arrived in the Philippines, Filipino communities had figured out how to live comfortably on the hot, humid, and flood-prone archipelago; they simply raised their houses off the ground. The most obvious example is the bahay kubo, or nipa hut, a small house built from bamboo, wood and thatched nipa palm … Read more