Artist Struggling To Rent Affordable Places Turned Dumpster Into Tiny Home For Nearly Rs 4 Lakhs
Finding opportunity in adversity got a bit sticky for Harrison Marshall, an architect and artist, when he started looking for places to rent in London last summer. Marshall quickly came to know that the task might not be as easy as it sounded at first, given the outrageous rent prices in London.
A London Artist Makes A Dumpster His Home To Avoid Crazy Rent Prices
So, when the artist was having a hard time picking out an affordable place to crash, he decided to come up with a solution all on his own. He told Insider, "I was trying to find somewhere that would fit my budget and criteria, but if I found somewhere, there'd be 100 other people also looking for the same spot, and it'd be gone in five minutes."
This made Marshall¡¯s gears turn: ¡°So it made me start thinking that there's got to be another way for me to do this.¡±
The artist used his creative juices to come up with an ingenious jugaad to handle his housing situation. He used his expertise in architecture to turn a dumpster, aka a "skip" for the Brits, into a tiny home.?He chose to use a dumpster since they are a common sight and can easily be moved from one place to another.
"It also gave quite a good juxtaposition between what you don't typically think of as a house and almost the polar opposite of that, which is a bin or?dumpster, and how actually that could be turned into something that is relatively cosy and homely," said the 28-year-old artist.
According to the outlet, his dwelling was recently parked a short distance from the Tower Bridge in Bermondsey towards southeast London.
Marshall Has Spent Several Years Building Architectural Projects For Charities
Marshall has spent the last seven years making architectural designs and tiny homes for charities overseas. He also set up an organisation called the Caulkin Studio with some of his friends from university. Through this organisation, they have built schools, health centres, community halls, and playgrounds. So, it wasn¡¯t much of a surprise when he thought to use his experience of these constructions to build his own tiny home on a dumpster.??
Marshall revealed that his latest housing design was inspired by a Caulkin Studio project, which saw an art installation in a skip. The project was a collaboration between the studio and a company named Skip Gallery. They commissioned artists to create works of art in the confines of skips, aka dumpsters.?
The artist took a few months to build the tiny home and worked on the project during his free time in the evening. It took him about 4,000 pounds (around Rs 4 lakhs) to set up the house. His outgoing cost came up to be about 50 pounds (over Rs 5,000) to rent the dumpster.
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