The Recycled House is a structure currently being built in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia.

Most of its materials have come from somewhere else and are getting a second life in this house.

For example, for the items seen on this page: The green corrugated metal was on the original structure--a garage--probably erected in the 1940s. That garage was carefully disassembled and most of it has been used in/on The Recycled House. The chocolate brown brick was left over from a government building project and had been sitting in the “boneyard” of Allied Concrete for more than nine years. The Recycled House’s plaque was carved at the local tombstone company out of a piece of leftover granite.

It will be available for short-term rental when it’s finished, hopefully by Spring of 2012.

You can watch the construction by popping up the slide show. Enjoy!

Inquiries should be sent to