John Jintire
Reusing of shipping containers to create houses is becoming very popular these days. However there are challenges we need to overcome to effectively build homes out of storage containers. Experienced builders who know how to build a shipping container home cheap are still just a few. Yet today we begin to see some useful resources including pdf house plans book to get started. Here is a compiled list of spectacular off grid shipping container houses along with some handy guides for you to study.
This book presents a wide range of projects in container architecture - a contemporary architectural phenomenon. It features container structures used as pop-up stores and temporary exhibits as well as sophisticated housing and office spaces that provoke and inspire while setting new standards in functionality and aesthetics.
When it comes to building a home from a shipping container there are many things you must consider. This complete guide is written by a professional container builder with 14 years of experience in the field. He is about to reveals his secrets and teaches you how to build a beautifully designed home using shipping containers, what costly mistakes you must avoid so your project doesn't collapse like a house of cards!, etc...
We receive lots of emails from people asking us- how do I go about building my own shipping container home? So to answer this question, here at containerhomeplans.org we've asked 23 shipping container home owners to reveal to us what you really need to know by asking this question: "What's the one thing you wish you'd known before you built your shipping container home?"
"I see my friends buying $400,000 houses and they're in debt for the next 35 years."
One of the more niche trends in sustainable design of the past few years has been the re-use of shipping containers in order to create the structure of a building.
