"Design a basic shell," he said, "choose inexpensive materials, and use them well."

"He came up with ideas that made a small house, built from inexpensive materials, special."

The fast-growing plant provides inexpensive material for construction and in furniture making.

These were of inexpensive material such as tin, aluminum, plastic or paper.

The bigger the average house became, the more likely it was to be covered by an inexpensive material, vinyl.

Water ice is readily available, inexpensive material, which can be used as a green manufacturing tool.

There's a lot of experimentation going on with inexpensive, unexpected materials.

The focus here is on inexpensive materials used in new ways.

The mas was always built of inexpensive local materials; stones or wood from the area.

The cylinders were made of inexpensive materials and have not held up well, he said.