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Friday, October 21, 2016
So You Think You Want a Custom Built Shipping Container Home
So You Think You Want a Custom-Built Shipping Container Home?
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We’re not here to dash your dreams, but the growing cargotecture trend has definitely inspired a lot of unique ideas in shipping container homes. And while shipping containers themselves are pretty simple, all those industrial chic additions (retractable walls, floating staircases) can make building with boxes a bit more complicated.Here are three shipping container home considerations we recommend you think through, before deciding if container living is really for you.
Container Home Design we are big fans of upcycling—i.e. repurposing the global surplus of steel shipping containers for broader, long-term purposes. But we’re not setting out to build the world’s most luxurious treehouse (no offense, Pete Nelson), or try to make a Conex box look like the Sydney Opera House. Instead, we create safe and efficient living spaces inside our popular Living Boxes. Living Boxes can be customized to an extent—in terms of stacking and joining multiple containers. But they can’t be made to replicate the Guggenheim. That’s just not what we do.
Container Home Materials
Contrary to popular belief, shipping containers aren’t dirt cheap. A quality, used, 40-foot container can cost around $4,000. (There are cheaper units out there, but we wouldn’t recommend living in them.) Four thousand is certainly less than framing and foundation materials for a traditional home, but it doesn’t represent the entirety of a shipping container home’s price tag. Don’t assume that a shipping container frame will allow you to outfit your pad with Brazilian hardwood and gold leaf ceilings. Being able to incorporate nice materials and furnishings into a modest-sized space is one great advantage of a minimalist home. Just be sure you’ve done your homework on standard container costs first.
Container Home Timeline
Already sold your brick and mortar home in the city? Hoping to take advantage of a prime seller’s market, or snag the perfect plot of land you just found for sale? Your plans may not sync with a shipping container home if you’re hoping for 30-foot ceilings and a sunken living room. Custom containers can take months to build. And more complex designs often require onsite intervention (grading the property, compacting the soil, pouring the foundation, etc.) Choosing a new home is certainly a major decision—one that’s worthy of a little wait time. But if you want to minimize unforeseen snags and delays, a custom build may not be your dream home.
The bottom line?
For a lot of container home enthusiasts, opting for a standard Living Box unit is a much better solution than a custom build. For one thing, the “standard” label is a little misleading. Our shipping container home buyers have found plenty of cool, inexpensive ways to modify and personalize container houses. Having fun with exterior paint, patios, window boxes and living roofs are just a few examples.
The other piece of feedback we always hear from Living Box buyers: context. Many homeowners have trouble weighing their full appreciation for a shipping container home until it’s placed in the landscape they love. And yet, the ability to live in a quiet, unspoiled environment is usually the prime reason people chose container homes in the first place. Living Boxes help to preserve that goal; set-up is fast and minimally invasive.
Still think you’re in the market for a shipping container home? Get more information here:
28 Shipping Container Home 4d and a architects New Jerusalem Children’s Home Johannesburg South Africa
28 Shipping Container Home, - 4d and a architects, New Jerusalem Children’s Home, - Johannesburg, South Africa,
4D and A Architects have been working with New Jerusalem to initiate a range of new housing volumes with accommodation for twelve children and one housemother per abode, and two houses sharing communal kitchen, dining, lounge and laundry facilities. After considering various alternatives, it was decided that the most lucrative approach was to utilise recycled shipping containers to construct these residential dwellings as the cost was estimated at R1.5million (€145,000) - 25% of the traditional brick and mortar home.
Photos by Dennis Guichard
http://www.newjerusalemchildrenshome.org.za/
http://4da.co.za/
http://www.dennisguichard.com
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Monday, October 17, 2016
Devan Sophia a Container Home Builder from Lake Jackson Texas
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This is a new model drawing from my friend Devan Sophia, a Container Home Builder from Lake Jackson, Texas. His work can be seen at his site http://www.isbudesign.com/ and his Facebook page. This is one of his Facebook Photo Albums
Each ISBU container can hold over 600,000 lbs on top of it, and that's still safe enough to travel thousands of miles across oceans in tossing waves and through tropical storms. So we can only imagine the possibilities these boxes have in store for our future homes and commercial structures. Even as you are reading this, the PhiloSophia design team is designing beach houses to be built along the Gulf Coast here in Texas. Since the last hurricane hit, there are numerous empty lots with owners that are starting to see the advantages of building with these nearly indestructible boxes. Quote from Devan Sophia at isbudesign.com
Because we're working with metal structures, the design applications are endless. Cutting out sidewalls to accommodate for larger living areas, cutting out windows and doors, adding fireplaces and shelving. It is all accomplished with the simple application of a team of designers and a crew of welders. The rest is finished out by your specifications with the combined efforts of our welders and carpenters.
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
Knowing How to build a home from a storage container
Photos are illustrative How to build a home from a storage container
Build flynn’s container home from tron legacy… kinda, I would think that using the containers in a square surrounding a central patio would be a great way to have a home. double wide sections for the living.
Portable storage container sizes and options, Whether you are looking to rent or buy, portable storage container has storage containers of all shapes and sizes for all types of purposes..
Decorative wood pellet storage container- energy efficient, 1. how to build a storage bin for pellets | ehow how to build a storage bin for pellets. pellet stoves often burn 40 or more pounds of wood pellets each day..
Modern container home, Modern container home: this very stylish, crafty and modern container home has taken advantage of the living space created by stacking 2 x 40ft shipping con.
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
Small Cottage on a Beautiful Lake in Vermont
This waterfront cottage in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is less than 500 square feet. It also happens to be where my wife and I stayed for our honeymoon almost 14 years ago. It has a galley kitchen, three fixture bathroom, gas fired "wood stove", sunken living room, and screened-in dining porch. It's decorated in a rustic style with furniture by Old Hickory. The lakefront location with its own dock on one of the prettiest lakes in Vermont is hard to beat.
Essentially the only thing this lakefront cottage lacks to make it a viable full-time home is a washer and dryer.
The one bedroom. It's probably about 12' x 12', including the closet.
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| Sunken living room decorated in rustic style. |
Essentially the only thing this lakefront cottage lacks to make it a viable full-time home is a washer and dryer.
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| The massing, steep roof pitches, and covered porch of this little cottage make it look bigger than it is. |
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| The kitchen is probably 6' x 8'. It looks like the stove is only 24 inches wide, but that's big enough. |
I'm featuring this little cottage because as I said above, if you added a compact stacked washer and dryer, you would have pretty much everything a normal full-time single family dwelling has, except of course, more bedrooms and a lot of wasted space. I'd sacrifice a bit of the bedroom closet to squeeze in the washer & dryer. If you feel you must have a dishwasher, you could fit a compact 18 inch wide one on either side of the sink, depending on your preference.
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| Nice screened-in dining porch with a million dollar view! |
If you were to build something like this for yourself, think of how much money you'd save by giving up that extra 1,500 square feet found in most homes built today. Then think of all the money you'd save on heating, cooling, lighting, maintenance, and so on. Raise your hand if you want to be a mortgage slave. Yeah, me neither.
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| That million dollar view I mentioned. |
I just made a quick, hand-drawn sketch of the cottage based on what I can recall from 13+ years ago coupled with information gleaned from these photos. I never measured the place, but I think it's pretty accurate. I know it's just a sloppy sketch, so please forgive me.
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| The floor plan, as I recall it. |
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