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Shipping Container Homes

Learn How To Build Your Own Shipping Container House and Live Your Dream!

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Introduction

T hank you for taking the time to purchase this book, Shipping Container Homes: Learn How To Build Your Own Shipping Container House and Live Your Dream! Clearly you have an interest in understanding what truly goes into building and living in your own shipping container home.

And you have come to the right place!

Over the last years, shipping container homes have grabbed the interest of:

potential homeowners looking to enter the housing market for the first time

retirees looking to spend their golden years in a domestic paradise, and

successful professionals who want to fully own a home so they no longer have to slave away at a job they dont like just to pay their monthly mortgage payments.

Why? Because you get incredible value for your buck! With housing prices going through the roof, a shipping container home can be built for a fraction of the cost of a regular home.

Moreover, many shipping container homes are eco-friendly, resistant to extreme weather conditions and offer a high level of safety.

This book covers all facets of shipping container homes. It contains step-by-step instructions on how you can go about designing and building your own shipping container home, as well as guidelines in your selection.

At the completion of this book you will have a good understanding of what building a shipping container home entails, as well as what its main benefits and features are. So you can make an informed decision on whether this is the right choice for you.

If living in a shipping container home is your dream, now is the day on which you can take the first step to changing your life .

Thank you again for purchasing this book. I hope it will inspire you to make that dream come true.

Welcome to the family!

Chapter One: What Are Shipping Container Homes?

W e decided to build the home out of shipping containers because it uses less energy to re-purpose them than to recycle them (melt them down and remold the metal into something else). They are also really cool looking and add a fun industrial feel to the home. They are metal so we can use magnets all over the walls and they are almost indestructible. Its the first shipping container residence in our city... so we thought it would be cool to build the first one here in my hometown!

Ryan Naylor , on why he decided to build a home out of shipping containers.

K ey Takeaway : Shipping containers are sturdy, durable containers that are used to transport goods by sea all over the globe. Many of these shipping containers are only used once, and as a result can be bought for a low price. This, combined with the eco-friendly aspect of it, has sparked the trend of shipping container homes: converting these big steel containers into living spaces. Shipping containers have been used to build living accommodations for students and even shopping malls. In this book you will learn how you can go about designing and building your own shipping container home.

P urchasing or building a home is one of the biggest decisions you will make in your life, and possibly one of the most financially-taxing as well. There are many considerations you will need to put into account when selecting the type of house, how much space is necessary, design, materials, location, and other variables. It is a decision that has both short-term and long-term repercussions on your lifestyle, so you should equip yourself with as much knowledge and available options as possible.

In recent years, a trend that has grown in popularity among many home-buyers is the conversion of shipping containers into usable living spaces. How does that work?

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