Kloehn stays out of the rain in his dumpster dwelling. (AP)
Kloehn prepares a meal (AP)
Kloehn hanging out at “home.” (AP)
And you think your Manhattan apartment is tiny.
A California designer has turned a dumpster into a mostly livable apartment in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn – complete with a bathroom, bed, kitchen and sun deck.
Gregory Kloehn converted the green $2,000 trash receptacle on a whim and now stays there when he’s in New York. He added wheels to the bottom for transportation and carved out a door on the side to enter and exit.
“It just hit me,” Kloehn said on HGTV’s “You Live in What?” show (via Mail Online). “I thought, hey this is the perfect shape for a home.”
The water that flows from the sink faucet and that funnels into the toilet comes from a six-gallon tank Kloehn installed on the roof. There is also an outdoor shower that uses the same tank.
The inside of the dumpster has a small seating area, but night time seems to get dicey. The sleeping space is tiny.
There is a kitchen and small stove in the kitchen, both of them running on electricity. In addition, a small grill is connected to the outside. The roof features an umbrella for outdoor lounging. And the roof retracts to let in some sun during the day like, well, a dumpster.
“I think [people] are just surprised that someone would take something like this and spend enough time to make it a home,” he told HGTV.