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Liberal_in_LA  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-30-11 08:36 PM
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Berkeley man makes a (really rather nice) dumpster home
 Gregory Kloehn lives in central Berkeley and he makes things for a living. His latest creation may be his most inventive yet, for Kloehn has fabricated a home out of a dumpster -- yes, your regular dumpster, known primarily as a receptacle for trash.

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Kloehn says he decided to take on this remarkable feat of engineering and design while working on a shipping container home. "I would look over the fence at a dumpster and think that it looked like a little house," he says.

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inberkeley/detail?e...

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SusanaMontana41  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-30-11 08:40 PM
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1. That's pretty cool.
 Thanks for sharing!

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murielm99  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-30-11 08:41 PM
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2. Sort of an upscale home for Oscar the Grouch. n/t

No word about if it comes with a hood ornament.

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So there you have it. The liberals have finally established the standard of living by which they will cease to condemn you for your extravagant consumerism and admit you have achieved their ideal socio-economic status.
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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 03:47:35 PM »

"I LIVE IN A GARBAGE CAN!"
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 03:51:28 PM »
Cleaner and probably smells better than some of the DUers' homes, based on pictures they post and their complaints about rodent and insect infestations.

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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 03:55:10 PM »
If you watch the video, it isn't even done well enough to be interesting from an architectural standpoint.  It looks like a piece of crap.

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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 03:56:20 PM »
If you watch the video, it isn't even done well enough to be interesting from an architectural standpoint.  It looks like a piece of crap.

What would you put a dumpster in to throw it out?
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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 04:12:05 PM »
What would you put a dumpster in to throw it out?

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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2011, 03:24:28 AM »
If you watch the video, it isn't even done well enough to be interesting from an architectural standpoint.  It looks like a piece of crap.

I did, and it seems to me this dude is "several bricks short of a full load".  From the comments I read after it, several other people have the same thought.     :mental:

Hell, my son's pop-up camper is nicer than that, and my 26ft. travel trailer would be considered a luxury condo, with more room to boot.
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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2011, 09:32:49 AM »
That is perfect for DUmmies, they won't even care that there wasn't a shower.
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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2011, 09:41:30 AM »
I actually support this guy.  I think, instead of building multi-billion dollars worth of housing projects, we just put welfare recipients in these.  10 or 12 gauge steel, they're stackable, can't be torn up as easy as sheetrock by ingrate welfare recipients...  you could put the entire Democrat base in these, stack them 10 high, and fit them all into the state of Rhode Island.   Just imagine, 1 blue state, 49 red states.  Heaven.

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Re: Finally! A standard of living DU blesses with guilt-free indulgence
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2011, 11:03:59 AM »
...  you could put the entire Democrat base in these, stack them 10 high...
i didnt catch where the toilet flows to. might be bad for your "neighbors" downstairs.