California Woman Plans to Turn a 747 Into a House
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.26.06 | 12:16 PM ET
Francie Rehwald has hired architect David Hertz to build her an environmentally friendly and “feminine” house out of an old 747. “The wings will be the main house,” according to an Agence France-Presse report. “The cockpit will become a meditation temple, the jet’s trademark hump will become a loft and the remaining scrap will be used for more buildings.” A computer rendering of the house is pictured here.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Jimmy 04.26.06 | 5:14 PM ET
Why are so many rich people insane? Build a house out of a Jet Air Plane? Crazy!
Mollie Foti 04.27.06 | 12:37 PM ET
While I applaud the innovation, how many of us would - having spent way too much time on planes, scrunched in seats, breathing bad air and eating bad food - get truly excited about living in a plane? Here’s hoping she does major bathroom renovation ;-)