Archinect - News 2024-12-26T02:30:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150041760/byoh-build-your-own-home BYOH: Build Your Own Home Anthony George Morey 2017-12-18T15:13:00-05:00 >2017-12-18T15:17:56-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b8/b8uz5i5ti8hvbup6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Four walls and a roof, a basic bathroom and a kitchen sink. Basic access to electricity (a couple of sockets "here and there") and no flooring or wall coverings. This is what the non-for profit developers Naked House &ndash; created by a London-based startup &ndash; is proposing as an alternative to the &pound;484,000 standard cost of a home for fellow members of generation rent.</p></em><br /><br /><p>If you thought coming home with Ikea boxes made for an exciting afternoon of assembly, a London based startup, <a href="http://nakedhouse.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Naked House</a>, is thinking of you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>The concept of the startup is to allow the owner to have full control of the interior creation of their homes. With the current thread of DIY reaching endless possibilities, Naked House looks to enable the buyers to complicate or simplify their lives as they see wish.&nbsp;</p> <p>It would seem that we have one way or another, turned the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/94963342/what-s-wrong-with-the-primitive-hut-explores-architecture-s-origins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">primitive hut</a> into a modern-day startup. Who knew <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150034219/omg-designs-primitive-hut-a-pavilion-that-will-decompose-over-time" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laugier</a> and Eisen were entrepreneurs before their time?</p>