I live in ‘hillbilly’ off-grid shanty made from old LORRY – my windows & doors are from a skip but there’s a tiny luxury

A MAN now lives in a “hillbilly” off-grid shanty made from an old lorry with doors and doors from a skip.

Eddie, originally from Liverpool, turned a former truck into a stunning home deep in the mid Welsh countryside.

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He said he sourced the windows and doors from the tip and spent a maximum of £3,500 on the project named Mellowcroft.

Eddie told viewers around his kitchen sourced from the skip. He said he would not be able to “respect” a kitchen bought from Ikea.

He said his lounge was basically a heavily insulated wooden box which he transformed into a “really cool” space.

Eddie revealed how he became embroiled in a long running battle with council bosses over the land.

At one point he refused to comply with an enforcement notice to leave and ended up in jail.

In the end the authorities climbed down and Eddie was allowed to live on the smallholding.

Eddie said: “I think this building represents me and who I am as an individual. And you don’t get a lot of that in Europe.

“And we don’t get a lot of that in Europe, where you can build a house to express ourselves.

“There is a very monotone way of building in the UK, unless you have bucket loads of cash.”

Eddie described the project as “epic.”

Eddie said the two bedroom house was the result of a “vision” he had to build a shanty like structure deep in the countryside.

Eddie informed that a shanty construction process uses materials that “are available to you.”

He said that he had just completed building a boulder staircase and six person outdoor hotub.

He said: “It’s a slice of heaven. It’s not like some Cosmo magazine look. It’s more backwater swamp look. That is what I was going for.”

Meanwhile, a couple who dashed their home and hit the road in a converted van that costs £600 a month to run.

The loved-up pair ditched their two-bed home to hit the road in a motorhome when getting together after a “whirlwind” two-week romance.

This post first appeared on thesun.co.uk