Modern Day Caveman

A 38-year-old real-life Fred Flintstone has transformed a 250-year-old cave into his dream home.

17:28 12 January 2016

A real-life Fred Flintstone Angelo Mastropietro has successfully transformed a 250-year-old cave into his dream home. The project cost him £160,000 and about 1,000 hours that he spent on breaking, cutting and burrowing the rock to create a unique stone house in the Wyre Forest. The cave features running water, underfloor heating, and even wi-fi.

 

The 38-year-old was living a high-flying life as the head of a successful recruitment company in Australia when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2007. He was left temporarily paralysed, which inspired him to seek a simpler lifestyle.

 

He said: "My life before I became a caveman was really quite different, like most people I had aspirations to work in a corporate world.

 

"I had a lapse that left me essentially paralysed, which was a catalyst to review where I was, where I was going and my lifestyle."

 

Commenting on the 1,000 hours that he had to put in to convert the cave into his dream house, he said: "I love a challenge. Coincidentally my surname actually means Master of the Stones, so maybe it's in my blood.

 

"The rock house came along and without a shadow of a doubt I was as passionate about that as I was about setting up my company."