Giant “Eggo” Home Made Out Of Hundreds Of Recycled Egg Cartons

Stacking up hundreds of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/egg-cartons-recycled-into-awesome-office-lamps/" target="_blank">reused egg cartons</a> like Lego blocks, Australia-based studio <a href="http://www.goldenhen.com.au/work/hello-world/" target="_blank">Goldenhen</a> built a life-sized home called "The Original Dream". Considered the first "Eggo" installation exhibition, the egg carton home was modeled after Howard Arkley's well-known painting, <em><a href="http://arkleyworks.com/?p=5636" target="_blank">Family Home: Suburban Exterior 1993</a></em>, which is considered the Australian dream of suburban living. Goldenhen reimagined the dream home using recycled and colored egg cartons and egg trays that bring a whole new meaning to the catch phrase, "Leggo my Eggo."

Goldenhen collected and painted hundreds of egg cartons and egg trays to use in the construction of this 'Eggo' home.

The home is based of Howard Arkley's painting Family Home: Suburban Exterior (1993).

The 'Eggo' installation takes a look at the suburban home through the context of everyday objects - eggs and egg cartons.

The home also features a cricket pitch and a outdoor clothes dryer with egg tray cones for grass.

The egg cartons are used like Lego blocks to build the home.

Here is a test construction for the home in Goldenhen's studio.

It took 10 car trips to transport all of the the egg cartons to the exhibition space.

The Eggo home is constructed on a simple and lightweight wooden frame.

The exhibition is considered one of the first 'Eggo' installations and the studio hopes to work on more.

The Original Dream’ Eggo house took the designers six straight sleepless nights to build.