Tina Hammond - Shipping Container Home Living: Your Comprehensive Guide to Living in a Smaller Home, Plus Decorating and Designing Tips!

Shipping Container Home Living

Your Comprehensive Guide to Living in a Smaller Home, Plus Decorating and Designing Tips!

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S hipping container homes are a unique living arrangement that have many advantages for those looking to cut costs; however, when decorated poorly they can create the illusion of living in a shoebox. Shipping Container Home 101: Simple, Fulfilling Hacks of a Small Home, Plus Decorating and Designing Tips! is designed to help you to get around this concern by providing a number of tips and tricks that you can utilize to create a larger, more organized living space out of even the most minimal home.

This book begins by looking at the very basic advantages and disadvantages of living in a small home but soon it takes things to a whole different level. Learn how to decorate, utilize storage space and avoid blocking out sections of your shipping container home as you take our small living tips and tricks and put them into action.

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S hipping container homes are a relatively new discovery in terms of popular culture; however, there is no doubt that they are taking off with a bang. These small living solutions are not only great cost cutting opportunities but they are also ideal for those looking to make a minimal environmental impact. In this chapter, we will not only take a look at the basics behind shipping container homes, but we will also take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of having shipping container homes.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

• Shipping Container Architecture
• Advantages of Shipping Container Homes
• Disadvantages of Shipping Container Homes

S hipping container homes are exactly what they claim to be homes that are constructed through the use of shipping containers. These small and compact containers are ideal for use as living space not only because they are durable and strong, but also because they are modular, movable and quite cheap as well.

Shipping container homes make for fast home solutions as well as cheap home solutions and in the current day and age they have become a popular living option for the eco-conscious. The use of shipping containers for homes is beneficial for the environment not only in the minimal resources that these homes use, but also because there is an abundance of empty shipping containers without purpose. This happens because after shipping containers are used, they are frequently abandoned simply because it costs too much to ship back empty containers to their origin country versus purchasing new ones.

T here are many advantages to using shipping containers as homes.

• As we mentioned above, shipping containers are available in abundance and for minimal cost. When compared to the cost of building a new home, the cost of setting up a shipping container home is significantly less.
• Shipping container home utilities cost much less than those of traditional homes.
• Shipping container homes are eco-friendly because they reuse existing shipping containers that would otherwise be wasted because levels of export in the United States are much less than levels of import.
• Shipping containers are built not only to be durable but also to withstand the elements making them the perfect solution for living quarters.

A lthough there are certainly many advantages to shipping container homes, there are some disadvantages to these types of homes.

• Shipping container homes can be extremely hot because of their metal construction.
• Again, due to their metal construction, shipping container homes can rust and cause trouble with the integrity of the home as a shelter.
• Although used for shipping, shipping containers are not constructed specifically for living and as such they can be built using harmful components such as solvents.
• Used cargo containers may also have remnants of spilled cargo within them and depending upon what was shipped in them, this contamination may also pose a threat.
• Shipping container homes may also pose a problem with building permits because of their unusual appearance.

W hile creating a home from a shipping container can be affordable and relatively easy, its important to know where to start. Youll need to know where you can buy a shipping container, the cost for both the container and for delivery to your new home site, as well as what permits and specialty preparations are required. Once youve got these things down, youre ready to start making your very own container home!

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

• Where to Buy Your Shipping Container Home
• The Cost of Buying a Shipping Container Home
• Permits and Shipping Container Homes
• Leveling Your Shipping Container Home

S hipping containers are available for sale around the world. Whenever possible, its best to purchase a shipping container locally. This allows you to inspect the container before purchase to ensure that youre getting the best possible container for your money. It will also minimize the cost to have it delivered to your home site.