This is too cool

The DIYer in me is drooling over the houses that Dan Phillips, an East Texan, is building out of recycled, salvaged, and scrap materials. He makes windows out of crystal platters and Pyrex lids, ceilings out of picture frame samples, and floors from wine corks or broken tiles. His creations are beautiful, quirky, and inexpensive, since it's all salvaged and recycled materials. Sometimes we need to think outside the box, and for this man, it means thinking outside standardized dimensions or building materials and beyond the cookie-cutter houses filling new subdivisions. What I like most is that he's doing this for people who need homes, not for well-to-do people with ample means to "buy green." I'd love to be part of his work crew and learn how to build his unconventional houses.

Watch the slide show first, then read the associated article One Man's Trash...

And for those of you on the other side of the pond, there's this Welsh hobbit house that I've been sighing over...
I am an old house person, but if I had to live in a new house, this is the kind of thing I'd like to do. No vinyl siding for me, thanks.