You have to hand it to Dunkinโ€™. Theyโ€™re really leaning into to this whole drop-the-โ€œdonutsโ€-from-our-name-and-focus-on-coffee thing. They are taking their slogan, โ€œAmerica runs on Dunkinโ€™,โ€ a little too literally, or at least they would be if their slogan was โ€œAmerica lives in a tiny house that runs on Dunkinโ€™.โ€ For a limited time, Dunkinโ€™ is renting out a tiny house on AirBnB that is powered by used coffee grounds.

The new ad campaign, presumably thought up by my aunt who lives in the Northeast and โ€œwishes she could live in a cup of Dunkinโ€™ coffee,โ€ coincides with Dunkinโ€™ Donuts Coffee at Home, the brandโ€™s push into the at-home market. So they made a homeโ€ฆ at which you can make their coffeeโ€ฆ to power the home.

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According to their website, Dunkinโ€™ partnered with Blue Marble Biomaterials, โ€œa sustainable biochemical company,โ€ to create eco-friendly biofuel from 65,000 pounds of spent coffee grounds. The biofuel is created by putting extracted coffee oils and through a chemical process known as โ€œtransesterification,โ€ which then gets โ€œwashed and refined.โ€ For every 170 pounds of coffee grounds processed, a total of one gallon of biofuel is created, which means Dunkinโ€™ and Blue Marble created a little over 380 gallons.

For only $10 a night, two guests can stay in the 1 bed/1 bath โ€œstudioโ€ currently located in โ€œbeautiful Nahant, MA, providing picturesque views of the Atlantic Ocean and Boston skyline,โ€ per the AirBnB listing. โ€œIt is designed and decorated to look as modern as it runs,โ€โ€”which may not be the best way of describing it, seeing how it runs on old, used (not modern) coffeeโ€”โ€œfeaturing a chic aesthetic with custom-designed elements.โ€ And of course, guests have access to unlimited, presumably Dunkinโ€™, coffee as well as a โ€œcozy coffee nookโ€ to drink it in. And hereโ€™s a fun fact: the interior was designed in partnership with actress Olivia Wilde. Thatโ€™s cool I guess. Not really sure how it ties in to everything else going on here, but thatโ€™s what happened. Olivia Wilde designed the interior.

Now, itโ€™s unlikely youโ€™ll be lucky enough to book time in the Home That Runs On Dunkinโ€™. The tiny home is only available for rent until October 26th and Iโ€™d bet dollars to donuts that itโ€™s completely booked. But, if you want to see what it looks like, a tiny 360 virtual tour is available on the Dunknโ€™ Donuts Coffee at Home website.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

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