A man turned a garbage container into a tiny house: this is how he tries to save on rent

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And perhaps there's nothing more desperate than moving into a dumpster to deal with rising rents and inflation. New York Post.

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This is what British artist Harrison Marshall did. He built his own tiny house in a yellow container where he will live for the next year.

Skip House includes an insulated timber frame and a barrel-shaped roof. The roof can accommodate a bed, a stove, a sink, a refrigerator and a tiny closet. A month after Marshall moved in, Skip House was finally plugged in, meaning he could turn on the heater to heat his 25-square-foot home.

And despite the lack of a flush toilet and the need to shower at work or the gym, the rent is less than $90 a week.

The 28-year-old architect built Skip House to draw attention to people forced to leave their homes due to soaring rental prices in London.

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“People across the country are changing their lifestyle to offset the rising cost of essentials,” Marshall wrote on the Skip House Instagram page.

“Living in a dumpster is not a solution, but rather an exploration and a statement,” says the artist.

The idea was to partner with Skip Gallery, which commissions artists to create artwork from containers.
When Marshall returned to London after several years of work abroad, he was struck by how skyrocketing prices in the highly competitive London housing market were.

He told local Southwark News that the container was "the only way" for him to live in the area, and on a TikTok tour of the tiny house, Marshall said it provided "a loophole to live in central London for next to nothing".

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“It also gave a pretty good comparison between what people don't normally consider habitable and what it can actually be turned into. I turned the container into something relatively cozy and homely,” he said.

“I was lucky enough to find a place in London that could do it, which was always one of the biggest challenges,” he continued.

The land was donated by the arts charity Antepavilion. Construction with the help of Marshall's friends during December cost him nearly $7130. The lot also has a small water tank that Marshall fills up from a neighbor's hose, which means he can do the dishes and brush his teeth.

He plans to live in the tiny container for at least a year, but is reportedly willing to stay longer or move the space if necessary.

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The trash can is perhaps the strangest iteration of the tiny house trend, which has grown exponentially in popularity since the first homes built from shipping containers captured the hearts of Australians.

And rising house prices and a push to return to a more minimalist lifestyle could mean we see more and more tiny homes.

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