[matched_content Source link Post navigation A New Zealand couple bought an abandoned school, then spent three years and about NZ$250,000 turning the classroom into a home and chalet; the property is now listed for enquiries over NZ$595,000 In 1956, a 60-year-old California woman found building blocks too expensive and began hauling bottles from a dump; 25 years later she had turned tens of thousands of discarded objects into a 15-building folk-art village