Dumpster Digs: UK Artist Turns Discarded Bin into Charming Tiny Home with Impressive Creativity

In London, reports of expensive real estate and lack of available space are frequent. An iconic response to this problem has been developed by a London architect and artist.
Harrison Marshall, an architect, recently made headlines after posting pictures of his dumpster-built miniature house on social media. Skip House is his extremely modest home, which cost just $4,800 to build and has a dumpster as its foundation. Marshall is co-founder of Cowkin Studio, a construction and architecture social enterprise.

Harrison Marshall, 28, moved into a specially adapted skip on a patch of grass in Bermondsey, south London, a month ago, explaining it was the only way he could live in the central area near where he works.

• "As is the case with thousands of people in the city and across the country, the prices went crazy. The rent was crazy,.
• "And even if I found somewhere in my price zone, there would be 100 other people or more looking for that room."
• "Skip House" is marked in black in the classic yellow container usually used for builder's waste.
• "Leaving gave me the opportunity to build my own little house," he said.
• An arts charity lent him the land. It has a garden path leading to the entrance stairs and a portable toilet in the corner of the site. He is a 10-minute bike ride or shower to the gym at work, and has access to water from a hose pipe from a neighbor's property.
• "All the neighbors are wonderful, actually. Everyone is very supportive. I have neighbors come over and bring home-cooked meals," he said. "It's a huge bonus to the whole project that there seems to be a really good community in the area."