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<\/p>\nA YOUNG woman who didn't want to fork out for student accommodation found a nifty way to cut costs. <\/p>\n
Mckean Maston turned her childhood playhouse into a tiny home – and saved herself a whopping \u00a38k in rent.<\/p>\n
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The 24-year-old executed the project by hand, enlisting the help of family members to transform her old playhouse into a cabin-esque home. <\/p>\n
It is equipped with a cosy living space, a kitchen area, and a bedroom.<\/p>\n
Outside, there's beams, a porch and dangling fairy lights.<\/p>\n
Mckean's mum Somare, 54, also mucked in to fulfil her daughters home dream.<\/p>\n
The graduate didn't want to pay for rent while going to a nearby university in Texas, US so dedicated six months to getting the core structure of the house to a livable standard.<\/p>\n The interior design and decoration process took a further six months to finish.<\/p>\n Mckean, who now works as a production manager alongside her dad, said: "I started it with my dad around when I was in fifth or sixth grade.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Let's go build a fort!'. My dad was like, \u2018No, you've got to build a house because when you get big, you can go and play in it or whatever.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy dad wanted to be a part of something and we went at it full swing – it was just so fun.<\/p>\n "It was probably a six-month project whenever I was younger.<\/p>\n "All we did then was create the core-shell and the outer shell. <\/p>\n "We protected it with tar paper for water resistance.<\/p>\n Years later as the cost of living soared and Mckean wanted to save on rents, she opted to make the "fort" livable.<\/p>\n Mckean added: \u201c I had the option of either paying for rent my freshman year or building out this fort, which is now the tiny house.<\/p>\n "It was probably about, $850 (\u00a3690) a month at least of saving, instead of paying for rent somewhere else. <\/p>\n "It would be at least around $10,000 (\u00a38,000) a year at least.<\/p>\n "You have this dream as a kid and you don't necessarily think it's going to come true, but it eventually does – and it's like totally better than what you could have thought!"<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-24008881-1695056461892.jpg\")
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