There are many reasons why people buy shipping containers. They can be used for storage, become semi-portable offices or workshops, or sometimes crafted into full-sized high-end full-sized houses. Whatever your reason for buying a shipping container, you deserve to get the very best quality container for the best price without many inconveniences. In this guide, we’ll share all the expert understanding you require to get a good deal on purchasing brand-new or used shipping containers. PART 1The Risks of Buying Shipping ContainersBuying a quality brand-new or pre-owned shipping container does not have to be brain surgery. A sales process...
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A List Of The Most Stunning Container Homes and How You Can Make Them
The only thing better than seeing pictures of stunning container homes is getting a chance to learn from the people that had a hand in building them. So we thought, “Why not do both?!”. Here is a list of some of the best shipping container homes around. 1. PV14 House Matt Mooney, a principal at Corgan, based in Texas, decided to use shipping containers for his next house. More than fourteen containers were utilized in total to assemble this large 3,700 square foot home. It has three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and a swimming pool, to name but a few...
SMALL & PROFITABLE MICROGREEN FARM IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER!
I’m in Vancouver, BC, and I’m at a really cool urban farming operation called Food Peddlers. they are a cooperative that grows microgreens for sale in Vancouver. And I’m right downtown sort of in an industrial area and these guys grow in a modified shipping container that’s been turned into a greenhouse. Essentially, it’s fully insulated. They can grow year-round. It’s a super cool operation. The thing I like about it, the most is that this kind of this is the kind of system you can put anywhere. This could be on a rooftop. This could be in a back...
DIY: Off-Grid 40ft Shipping Container Home Survival/Basic
Greetings, my brothers and sisters. I’m going to be showing you around a 40-foot container that we have made livable, and this is more of a minimalist type of shipping container. It’s not very fancy, or there’s not a lot of money spent on it, about 4,500 in total, including everything inside. It’s probably less than that. So I just want to show you an idea of cheap living accommodation that, in my opinion and has been for us, it’s been very comfortable. I really enjoy it so start off and I’ll show you the outside. So this is the...
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Building a Shipping Container Home | PART2 Moving, Cutting, and Framing a Container House
I keep skin, we all know the importance of adding value to your place and if you were looking to get inspired, it doesn’t get bigger than this granny flats are the solution to a whole heap of renault problems, more space for much less renovation, chaos they’re an Efficient and affordable way to extend, but for Debbie there are other reasons why a granny flat was perfect for her situation. In the long run, I’ve got two young daughters that may need somewhere to live and also got parents that one day if they need that, I could help...
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3 x 20ft Shipping Containers Turn Into Amazing Compact Home
When you look at a shipping container, the last thing that you think of is a house, but it never ceases to amaze me how people can take these cold metal boxes and turn them into wonderful, welcoming homes. Today, we’re in Victoria, where one young couple has taken three of these 20-foot shipping containers and turned them into a remarkably designed home. This is actually three 20-foot shipping containers all attached together. Isn’T it that’s correct? Yes, how did this all actually come about? We didn’t need a big home and I guess the shouldn’t hanger is already available...
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Building Amazing Homes & Mobile Spaces Using Shipping Containers!
We’re here at stores back in Toronto and we‘re going to find out how to use and modify shipping containers as alternative building blocks. They’Ve worked on some really interesting projects: building homes, additions, cottage spunky’s, man, caves mobile offices and a ton more so we‘re going to go meet up with Ann’s. I need to find out more. I love modernist buildings. I love modern architecture and the square boxes fit right into that. A good paint job on them stands out. It lasts for years. It’S durable and it’s just a solid building, they’re also great, because you can move...
Building a Shipping Container Home | Permits and Foundation Design
Hi, I’m Ben, and this is the house I built out of shipping containers. Now I’ve been interested in shipping container architecture for quite some time, but I had a really hard time finding good information about how to get building permits or how much would it cost? Well, we did the research, we documented everything that we did and now we’re so excited to share with you what we learned so check it out. This is episode 1, where we’ll talk about buying containers, getting building permits and pouring a concrete foundation in the spring of 2018, I bought 10...
How To Buy A Shipping Container
There are many reasons why people buy shipping containers. They can be used for storage, become semi-portable offices or workshops, or sometimes crafted into full-sized high-end full-sized houses. Whatever your reason for buying a shipping container, you deserve to get the very best quality container for the best price without many inconveniences. In this guide, we’ll share all the expert understanding you require to get a good deal on purchasing brand-new or used shipping containers. PART 1The Risks of Buying Shipping ContainersBuying a quality brand-new or pre-owned shipping container does not have to be brain surgery. A sales process...
General
A List Of The Most Stunning Container Homes and How You Can Make Them
The only thing better than seeing pictures of stunning container homes is getting a chance to learn from the people that had a hand in building them. So we thought, “Why not do both?!”. Here is a list of some of the best shipping container homes around. 1. PV14 House Matt Mooney, a principal at Corgan, based in Texas, decided to use shipping containers for his next house. More than fourteen containers were utilized in total to assemble this large 3,700 square foot home. It has three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and a swimming pool, to name but a few...
SMALL & PROFITABLE MICROGREEN FARM IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER!
I’m in Vancouver, BC, and I’m at a really cool urban farming operation called Food Peddlers. they are a cooperative that grows microgreens for sale in Vancouver. And I’m right downtown sort of in an industrial area and these guys grow in a modified shipping container that’s been turned into a greenhouse. Essentially, it’s fully insulated. They can grow year-round. It’s a super cool operation. The thing I like about it, the most is that this kind of this is the kind of system you can put anywhere. This could be on a rooftop. This could be in a back...
DIY: Off-Grid 40ft Shipping Container Home Survival/Basic
Greetings, my brothers and sisters. I’m going to be showing you around a 40-foot container that we have made livable, and this is more of a minimalist type of shipping container. It’s not very fancy, or there’s not a lot of money spent on it, about 4,500 in total, including everything inside. It’s probably less than that. So I just want to show you an idea of cheap living accommodation that, in my opinion and has been for us, it’s been very comfortable. I really enjoy it so start off and I’ll show you the outside. So this is the...
General
Building a Shipping Container Home | PART2 Moving, Cutting, and Framing a Container House
I keep skin, we all know the importance of adding value to your place and if you were looking to get inspired, it doesn’t get bigger than this granny flats are the solution to a whole heap of renault problems, more space for much less renovation, chaos they’re an Efficient and affordable way to extend, but for Debbie there are other reasons why a granny flat was perfect for her situation. In the long run, I’ve got two young daughters that may need somewhere to live and also got parents that one day if they need that, I could help...