The idea of living in the countryside fills us with the sort of dread normally reserved for sharing your personal space with a serial killer, but even we could be persuaded to up-sticks to the sticks if this house was where we'd end up.
;)
Situated in San Jose, Cost Rica, the $40,000 house is made from two shipping containers, and was designed for a local couple by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture. He says:
"Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living in their fantastic property 20 minutes outside of the city of San Jose, Costa Rica; where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape. They made the very bold choice of exploring with me the possibility of creating a very inexpensive house made out of disregarded shipping containers that allowed them to be debt free and live the life they always dreamed of."
;)
To find out more about the project, including how it was contructed, just go the HomeDsgn website
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