London is an expensive place to live, and for young professionals it's tough to find affordable housing. When Tim Lowe was 26 and working as a property surveyor, he found his £1,000 a month rent too much to manage on his salary, and thus embarked on an alternative-living adventure.

Lowe's plan was to try out five different types of alternative low-cost housing and document what it was like living in each of them. Here's the series, called "Lowe-Cost Living:"

1. North London Disused Office Park

£400 per month

2. Camden "Luxury Shared Living" Building

£460 per month

3. East London Houseboat

£350 per month plus labor (pitching in with renovation)

4. Southwark Co-Op House Share

£460 per month

5. Mobile Horse Trailer

Price undisclosed, but apparently expensive

Would you be willing to live in any of those? Sure the locations are great, but I'd never have been able to hack the houseboat nor the horse trailer.