The house made from newspaper does not rot after hundreds of years

An American engineer built a paper house entirely with a special homemade glue that made the house not rot after a century.

The paper house was born in 1922 when Elis Stenman, a mechanical engineer in Rockport, Massachusetts, USA, began building a small house for summer vacation, according to Amusing Planet.

The building is like every other house with wooden frames, roofs and shingle floors, but when building walls, Stenman came up with another idea.The walls of the house are made up of layers of old newspapers stacked on top of each other, glued with glue with a thickness of about 2.5 cm and covered with varnish.

Everything inside the house is also made of paper.Stenman closed chairs, tables, bookshelves, even curtains and watches from newspapers and magazines.Only a wooden piano is covered with newspaper paper to create uniformity and a fireplace made of bricks to avoid catching fire.

No one knows Stenman's motivation to use newspapers.His descendants suggested that he wanted to test a cheap and readily available insulation during the recession.Even glue is a Stenman-made product of wheat, water and apple peels.

Stenman may also be testing for recycling or he particularly likes paper.He is the designer of paper clip production machines.

At first, he planned to cover the walls with shingles, but the newspaper wall remained firm after the first winter, making Stenman decide not to do more protection.It took him only two years to complete the house and live there until 1930. In 20 years of building and building furniture, Stenman used about 100,000 newspapers.

After nearly 100 years, the outer layers of the wall began to fall, revealing pieces of newspapers and advertisements from the past, attracting visitors to read.When Stenman died in 1942, the house was converted into a museum.