There's a company in India that's selling a $700 home in a box--a 215 square foot flat pack house that you put together yourself. It comes from a prefabricated kit that includes doors, windows, and a roof; and uses coconut fiber, or jute, for wall cladding and interiors.
They're building homes out of coconuts--just like on Gilligan's Island. This is crazy. I think Sherwood Schwartz should get a cut from this. It was his idea.
Maybe we should send some Indian homes-in-a-box to castaways around the world. They could really use them. I can only imagine how much trouble Gilligan had to go through to build all those homes. Even with the Professor's scientific knowledge.
Anyways, according to the manufacturer, the home can be built in a week. I bought a table from IKEA a few months ago--and putting one of those things together isn't that easy. I still haven't put it together. I just gave up. I tell people that it's a piece of abstract art.
If building an IKEA table isn't that easy, how are you supposed to build a house? The directions must be the size of a phone book.
Although the good thing is that the tech-support is in India. So it's a local call. Well, I guess they might sell them in the US, too. And what about Gilligan? He'll have to call Indian tech-support from his island. I don't know how that'll work. He's going to have to call through a coconut and a string. Maybe that Indian company should also sell him a coconut phone.
Anyways, I'm really happy about this. The world is making a lot of progress. $700 homes. And you can buy a lot of stuff at the 99 Cent Store, too. Probably not an actual house though--because we haven't really gotten to that point. But it's just a matter of time.