As you know: Wednesday is skip conversion day, when we showcase an alternative use for the common skip.
Last week the TopSkips skip hire blog showcased Oliver Bishop-Young’s skip home, a skip with a roof made from ‘for-sale’ signs. Today we’re stepping inside this 'des res' to reveal the life of your average skip dweller, so join me now as we go through the rust hole…
Over to you, Oliver…
"I spent a couple of hours searching the streets near my house for items in skips that were still useful. I then set about installing the objects such as a carpet, chair, TV and radiator as though they were in use in the skip”.
And look at the result! It may be bijou but mortgage's are hard to come by these days so this could be the answer to affordable housing. Or alternatively, as Olly says, instead of that conservatory you were planning...
“It added an extra room to the house. People began to approach me for the objects in the skip. Changing the display of or reorganizing the objects found in skips made them more desirable. People could see the potential left in the object and they seemed clean”.
You’ve got to admit that’s pretty fascinating, by putting discarded items back in their natural setting, albeit in a skip, people can better see their value. They stop being useless and start being functional again. A great example of recycling in action.
"What's that you're reading darling"? Why, it's the '7 secrets to successful skip hire' of course"
