{"id":2955,"date":"2015-02-02T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:37:52","slug":"ideas-for-alternative-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/ideas-for-alternative-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for alternative homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever lost sleep over the cost of housing these days? Or how steep your mortgage is? Or have you ever worried you’ll never be able to even afford<\/em> a house in this horrific climate?<\/p>\n

Well, here I am to save the day and save you money. Here are some alternatives to shake up your conventional idea of a home, and perhaps give you an idea for an affordable second home…<\/p>\n

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1.) A bus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bus living ain’t such a bad idea if you think about it… Sure, you won’t be able to have a family but you will be able to be on the open road forever. And look how surprisingly roomy it can be!<\/p>\n

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2.) A boat house
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This isn’t a particularly new concept to anyone but it’s still a great idea. Along with mooring costs, you can buy a house boat in London for \u00a380,000 and find a stunning place to moor it too. You can enjoy the English summer on a trip up the Thames through Reading and Oxford, and then moor up outside your favourite pub during winter.<\/p>\n

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3. A shipping container<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve noticed a recent trend of bars and restaurants made from shipping containers – Boxpark in Shoreditch was supposed to be a pop-up but was so popular it’s now permanent. And now the trend has spread to homes too. If you have the land, you could buy a shipping container and make a beautiful out-house like the one below.<\/p>\n

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4. A tree house<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have a couple of spare years on your hands and a spare acre or two on your property, why not build yourself a tree house? It would be a fantastic escape from every day life, and you could have a holiday home in your own back garden.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever lost sleep over the cost of housing these days? Or how steep your mortgage is? Or have you ever worried you’ll never be able to even afford a house in this horrific climate? Well, here I am to save the day and save you money. Here are some alternatives to shake up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[404,511,406,95,96,115,403,407,405,402],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interior-decor","category-useful-resources","tag-boat-house","tag-energy-saving","tag-igloo","tag-interior-design","tag-interiors-and-ideas","tag-money-saving","tag-second-home","tag-shipping-containers","tag-tree-house","tag-unusual-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loomandlast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}