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600 BCE
Yurt
Circular base of the home and are not very expensive. Usually only one or two people live in these homes depending on how big it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt#History -
First plastic bottle home built
The plastic bottles fit together like building blocks and they stick other building materials in between the bottles so it is insulated.https://www.niftyhomestead.com/blog/plastic-bottle-homes/ -
Glass Bottle homes
Glass Bottle homes are entirely made out of recycled glass bottles. They have to use some sort of insulation in between the bottles to close the walls. https://www.niftyhomestead.com/blog/plastic-bottle-homes. https://www.niftyhomestead.com/blog/plastic-bottle-homes/ -
First Shipping Container home built
Different shipping containers are used for the structure of a home and have become more modernized with time.
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Expanded Polystyrene used in homes
It is used in the walls of homes for insulation. They use the small Polystyrene beads and pack them together. https://greenbuildingsolutions.org/blog/expanding-role-eps-construction/ -
Dome Homes
Dome Homes were designed to withstand severe storms. They are built with a very strong structure. http://www.monolithic.org/homes/featured-homes -
Tire Homes
People will use tires for part of their building materials. They will put mud, stone, or concrete in between the tires to make it completely insulated. http://earthship.com/construction-materials -
Lego Construction
They use these building blocks used to make simple homes. It has to have square-like structures. The blocks are made of recycled materials. http://weburbanist.com/2016/08/18/lego-like-architecture-5000-homes-from-recycled-plastic-block -
Tree-Houses
The home is built either in the trees or up on top of the trees. They were used by the caveman over 40,000 years ago, but became more popular and bigger in the 1990s.
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Bus Homes
People who like to travel with their homes will take an old school bus and completely redo the interior. It has a bathroom, bedrooms, and a kitchen like any home. https://www.littlethings.com/school-bus-tiny-house-conversion-build/ -
Pallet Home
The house is built out of wooden pallets. Usually, they only build smaller sized homes/cabins when building with them.
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Tiny Homes
small and simple. Meant for one or two people. There are many different designs of these homes to pick from.
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Storage Stairs
Stairs that have storage drawers and bins that pull out from under each stair. -
Tiny Homes on wheels
The tiny homes that are small and simple now can have wheels on them so can be moved all over. For people that travel a lot, this is an advantage.
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Pallet Homes and Decorating
People are building their homes out of pallets and decorating with them. http://www.99pallets.com/pallet-houses/tiny-pallet-house-plans/ -
Floor Drop out pool
The floor will look normally and you can use it for everyday use inside your home. Then, if you want to take a swim, in the press of a button you can have a pool appear where your floor once was. The floor either rises, drops, or splits and goes under the floor to the sides of the pool.
