21-year-old transforms a van into a house using recycled materials: she doesn't pay rent and saves loads
Paying for a rented house is not trivial nowadays, especially if you are very young and don't have a lot of savings in your bank. Living together is certainly an economic solution to be able to afford a little independence, but finding good roommates is still a challenge. Amélise Burr, a 21-year-old girl from Cambridge, has found her own solution to the problem: living in a van furnished with recycled materials and ... not paying any rent at all! Of course, there are other costs that you cannot avoid, but nothing to do with the astronomical figures that the landlord will usually ask for. With a total of £ 7,000 ($ 9,400), the young woman managed to build a "mobile", inexpensive nest in which to be independent. The video of her showing her tiny home has been viewed by over 150,000 users!
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The young woman was living in France before starting this adventure, but returned to England when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out and following the loss of her grandmother. This experience made her suddenly realize that "life is too short" to be wasted on doing things that don't really satisfy us, and so she designed her ideal home for herself on four wheels.
Her little mobile home seems to have everything from the fridge to the shower. To transform the van into a kind of mini camper, Amélise used largely discarded materials. For example, to build the bed she took an aluminum frame of a bed she found in a driveway and then built it all out of pallet wood. It is the major use of pallets that have given her the greatest satisfaction in the construction of her environment; the young woman wanted, in fact, to live in an atmosphere that feels like a mountain chalet.
Initially, the biggest expense was buying an old van (£ 5,000), after which, the additional costs to date amount to £ 2,000. All in all, a small investment if she can make the most of her life in this new mobile home. Of course, at first it takes a lot of courage and Amélise seems to have found it.
For those who feel like "a free spirit" and want to free themselves from the obligations imposed by society, this life solution is not bad at all. The most important thing for Amélise is that she doesn't have to pay anyone rent, and she can claim to own her little house - thus saving a lot of money in the long run.
What do you think? Would you have the courage to change your life in this way?
