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I visited some friends in South America and they had just bought a property out in the countryside and were building a house. They had a shed for housing their
by tomc1985 7y ago
I visited some friends in South America and they had just bought a property out in the countryside and were building a house. They had a shed for housing their dog food (they rescued street animals) and, to my surprise, the inside of the walls were built with stacked-up Jack Daniels bottles. They covered the outside with wood paneling so it looked like a normal shack from the outside. I have no idea where they got so many bottles (my friend had a whiskey habit but this would have been a lot of drinking), but apparently this is a common thing to do over there
Articles like these pop up every now and then and I can't help but think of my friend's dogfood shack.
(Oh, and the house was built by a proper construction crew, with wood beams and all, not bottles...)
- pengaru 7y agoIt sounds like the bottles were serving as insulation, nothing structural. Was there anything used as mortar between the bottles?
- tomc1985 7y agoI think so, though I couldn't remember what it was
- bacon_waffle 7y agoA friend built a log cabin in Kentucky with different coloured glass bottles and jars interspersed in the chinking so that light comes through. Really neat effect.
- HenryBemis 7y agoAny chance you can share a photo? It would be really interesting to see the result on a "real" house. I see some fine examples on duckduckgo search results, but they look too extravagant: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=house+made+of+glass+bottles&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=house+made+of+glass+bottles...