This Wikkelhouse Tiny Home Is Completely Made of Cardboard – menshealth.com

As have become mainstream concepts, the tiny house has experienced a major rise in popularity.

Builders, in turn, seem to be coming up with more and more creative tiny house styles that appeal to the diverse array of people interested in them, from the young professional who works entirely remotely from his laptop looking to live in a far-flung locale, to retiree couples who want to do away with a mortgage.

There are ultra-modern, , reminiscent of tiny spaceships, converted a la “The Boxcar Children” and .

But a state-of-the-art tiny home made from cardboard? That’s unheard of—until now.

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Wikkelhouse

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Wikkelhouse

Dutch company Fiction Factory has made 60 of its designs, sleek tiny homes constructed by wrapping a house-shaped mold in 24 layers of cardboard adhered with eco-friendly “magic glue.”

The houses get their name from the word Wikkelen, which is Dutch for wrapping. The patented cardboard wrapping technique took years to perfect, resulting in a durable, insulated structure guaranteed to last for at least 50 years.

To protect from the elements, the Wikkelhouses are finished with waterproof foil and wood panelling. All in all, the homes are entirely recyclable, estimated to be three times as eco-friendly as the average house.

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Wikkelhouse

Every design is completely customized to its owner’s liking. Your could come with a kitchen, bathroom with shower, and bedroom. Invented as a modular concept, there is also the potential to string together as many units as one desires, meaning the home has the potential to become not-so-tiny.

Floor-to-ceiling glass walls on two sides of the structure keep the innovative structure from feeling claustrophobic. Instead, it’s light-filled and feels like an unobtrusive, organic extension of its surroundings. On , Fiction Factory notes that because it doesn’t have a foundation, the Wikkelhouse could be placed in any environment, from a building rooftop or backyard to far-off locations in the wilderness.

You might not have aspired to live in a home made of cardboard, but it might just fulfill all of your minimalist, eco-friendly fantasies.

Ashley Davis is a New-York based writer that reports on fashion, shopping, art, wellness, weddings, and travel to media sources including New York Observer, Wallpaper, Artsy, The Adventurine, PureWow, and Fashion Unfiltered.