Simon Dale created this awesome-looking environmentally sustainable home with his father-in-law (who is a builder) over the space of about four months for less than $5000.

He explained some of his motivations for the project:

Being your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass-produced box designed for maximum profit and the convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers’ profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.

Read more over at We Interrupt, and check out Simon’s latest project here.

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