Glass Houses - Bottle Buildings

clipped from unusuallife.com Instead of throwing those glass bottles away, many folks have wondered how to recycle and build with these ubiquitous items. This photo show walls being constructed on a build in New Mexico by Mike Reynolds at one of his “earthships”. Apparently back in the 60’s Mr. Heineken came up with the idea of makeing the beer bottles and size and shape of bricks, while concerned about the about of litter and wastage beer bottles were causing. They never came to be, however. Building with bottles has often been a choice of folk artists, early settlers and the poor in some countries, as they used whatever resources they had to build shelter. Agility Nut has a wonderful website featuring bottle houses around the world. Beer Bottle Chapel created by Martin Sanchez of Riverside California Ann’s Bottle House B&B in Arizona Tom Kelly’s Rhyolite Bottle House The Bottle Houses of Prince Edward Island