Reclaim, Recycle, and Reimagine Your House

Dan Phillips designs and builds houses, but not in the usual way. He believes the immense amount of waste associated with construction is unnecessar, so the majority of the materials he uses in the building of new homes are recycled or reclaimed. 

Here, Phillips exhibits some of the homes he has constructed and talks about his philosophy of building with imperfect materials—and why it works.

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