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Her Permitted Shipping Container Home

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Jen lives in a permitted shipping container home in the Colorado mountains—a dream come true. But to get to this point took a massive amount of research. Importantly, she found a county government open to nontraditional housing types. Gilpin County proved to be exceptionally helpful during the entire permitting process. … Read more

Retiree Downsizes into Container Home on Wheels

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Sally is a retiree living in a container home on wheels. Going tiny allowed her to turn over a powerful fresh leaf and achieve her own independent affordable housing. While she downsized quite a bit, Sally kept her most treasured possessions. Her entire tiny home is decorated with favorite artwork, … Read more

Architect’s 40′ Shipping Container Home

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Meet Dan, an architect who designed, built, and now lives in a high-cube 40-ft shipping container home with his wife, dog, and cat. During the design phase, he focused on not sacrificing comfort while optimizing function. The result is an exceptionally livable, light and airy tiny home. Impressively, Dan did … Read more

Young Couple Builds Clever $20k Container Home

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Prepare to fall in love with this cozy modern DIY container home! Dreamy views Pend-Orielle River in northern Washington take it to another level of awesome. After renting and living in a rustic school bus conversion, Matt and Paiton searched for affordable homeownership opportunities. Eager to put down roots, they … Read more

Shipping Container makes All-Season Suite

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Tara discovered this article in the Winnipeg Free Press and noted that a city spokesperson claims it could probably be a legal residence within city limits. She says, we appear to not have the same minimum-size restrictions that afflict so many places!

“There is some interest out there,” said Vern Hiebert, a Winkler area man who is selling a refurbished, made-to-live-in container on the Kijiji website. “We have had interest from people wanting to build homes out of the containers with multiple units.”

Hiebert is selling one cube, 14.6 by 2.6 metres which provides about 37 square metres of living space. Split into three rooms — bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen/den — the recycled container has all the modern necessities of a typical dwelling.

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Jimmy’s Container Home Update

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Jimmy from Costa Rica contacted me about a new home he has developed for his business ContainerHome.net which we covered in a post back in July. There seems to be lots of container homes being developed lately, it’s good to see these used containers being recycled.

A 20ft standard ISO shipping container converted into a small apartment.

A shipping container with a giant unfolding door. The size of the opening of the unit can be done with several options depending on the client’s budget.

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We will be installing the motor next month, so for now we are using a long cable and my truck to open the sidewall.  A 12V wench should lift the 1000lb sidewall. This is the total  weight of the cutout, the reinforced steel and the wooden deck.  With this particular project, we are going with a pulley system most commonly used for small bridges and very large doors.

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Recycled homes, one box at a time

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Magoline Hazelton is used to people driving by her home just to take a look. She’s also known as the “house lady” by her fellow residents in North Charleston, South Carolina. From the outside, Hazelton’s home doesn’t seem much different from the rest of the neighborhood. But there’s one big … Read more