Much of the attraction to and buzz around shipping container homes is related to cost. Some of it is reasonable, some not. In a lot of cases, shipping containers can be constructed quite inexpensively, perhaps even less expensive than a comparable house made with standard building strategies.While there are a large number of variables that...
Insulation is the material that divides you and your comfortable room of conditioned air from the extreme temperatures outside. When thinking about insulating a shipping container, there are quite a few possibilities, each with its pros and cons. You likely require insulation for your shipping container home, but which type of insulation is best? The...
There are a lot of factors that go into why people buy shipping containers. They can be used for storage, they can become semi-portable offices or workshops, and sometimes, crafted into full-sized high-end houses. Whatever your reason is for buying a shipping container, you deserve to get the very best quality container for the best...
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...
hey it’s courtesy of the urban farmer. Dot CEO hit the subscribe button right now. If you want to see more videos like this and please like and share them with your friends, so today, I’m in Vancouver BC and I’m at a really cool urban farming operation called food peddlers and they are a cooperative...
Greetings, my brothers and sisters. This is Christopher and in this video 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
