Patrick Horton, 28, congenital the snow-domed igloo in the backyard of his home in Brooklyn's Greenpoint adjacency with the advice of accompany afterwards Winter Storm Jonas alone added than 25 inches of snow in New York City this weekend, according to the website Brokelyn.com.
"We absitively we were traveling to do this two months ago," Horton, a freelance art director, told the website, adage he abstruse how to body it through YouTube videos. "We were sitting and badinage about that we should body an igloo, and again we absitively we'd in fact do it. We were just cat-and-mouse for a snow day.
"We congenital an eight-foot top accumulation of snow on Saturday, let it benumb overnight, and again spent three hours on Sunday digging it out," said Horton.
The igloo's announcement on Airbnb for $200 a night bound went viral Sunday, overextension assimilate Facebook and Reddit as well, according to DNAInfo New York.
"Dripping with adeptness and alt-lifestyle ambience lays this snowpocalypse's a lot of adorable getaway," the briefly listed Airbnb column read, said DNAInfo. "Built absolutely by duke all natural. Come acquaintance this chichi dome-style bungalow with Bae."
Horton said he in fact accustomed 5 rental requests afore Airbnb stepped in and took down the advertisement but not afore they contacted him.
"My name is Dustón and I plan with the Airbnb Trust and Safety Team. I am contacting you apropos your new advertisement the 'Boutique Winter Igloo for 2,'" apprehend an Airbnb bulletin to Horton. "We are blessed to see that you guys are active and accepting fun during the Blizpocalypse. Unfortunately, your igloo, while actual able-bodied constructed, has bootless to accommodated our control standards and has been removed from seek results."
Horton told the Huffington Column that he hopes to adore the igloo as acclimate allows.
"We absolutely plan to get some use out of it and adore it afore the acclimate warms up," Horton told the Post. "We abstruse this weekend that humans adulation igloos."
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