{"id":29020,"date":"2016-08-17T01:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-to-build-your-own-starter-house-in-just-5-steps-for-25000"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:56:30","slug":"how-to-build-your-own-starter-house-in-just-5-steps-for-25000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-to-build-your-own-starter-house-in-just-5-steps-for-25000","title":{"rendered":"How to Build Your Own Starter House in Just 5 Steps \u2014 for $25,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-build-your-own-starter-house-in-just-5-steps-for-25000.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in one day creating your own eco-house using open source tech, this kit is great place to start:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Picture this: you own a small piece of land. Nothing fancy \u2014 just a small plot. A group of people shows up, sets up a workshop in your shed, and within five days, using materials available at your local hardware store or made from the raw resources of your land, builds you a small starter house kitted out with state-of-the-art eco features for less than $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sound crazy? Well, open source advocate and maker Catarina Mota and inventor Marcin Jakubowski (see their TED Talks, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/catarina_mota_play_with_smart_materials?language=en\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/catarina_mota_play_with_smart_materials?language=en\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play with smart materials<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/marcin_jakubowski?language=en\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/marcin_jakubowski?language=en\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open-sourced blueprints for civilization<\/a>,\u201d respectively), are making the dream of accessible, affordable eco-housing come true with their <a href=\"http:\/\/openbuildinginstitute.org\/\" data-href=\"http:\/\/openbuildinginstitute.org\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open Building Institute<\/a> Eco-Building Toolkit. They\u2019ve already built several prototypes and tested the concept through a series of educational builds.<\/p>\n<p>As they close out a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/622508883\/open-building-institute-eco-building-toolkit\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/622508883\/open-building-institute-eco-building-toolkit\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kickstarter<\/a> campaign to raise funds to take the idea to the next stage of development, Marcin and Catarina give the lowdown on barn-raising, open source style. Here\u2019s how it works:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/ted-fellows\/how-to-build-your-own-starter-house-in-just-5-steps-for-25-000-861821051131#.l4tjuglan\">https:\/\/medium.com\/ted-fellows\/how-to-build-your-own-starter....l4tjuglan<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re interested in one day creating your own eco-house using open source tech, this kit is great place to start: Picture this: you own a small piece of land. Nothing fancy \u2014 just a small plot. A group of people shows up, sets up a workshop in your shed, and within five days, using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60759,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020\/revisions\/60759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}