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    Shipping Container Home: All about Building Them, Organizing and Designing a Functional Interior!: Tiny House Living Guide
    Shipping Container Home: All about Building Them, Organizing and Designing a Functional Interior!: Tiny House Living Guide
    Shipping Container Home: All about Building Them, Organizing and Designing a Functional Interior!: Tiny House Living Guide
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    Shipping Container Home: All about Building Them, Organizing and Designing a Functional Interior!: Tiny House Living Guide

    By Michael Hansen

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    You can have your very own home for about the price of a brand-new car.  In these days of cash crunches and economic recession, that is very enticing to a lot of people! 

    In this book, you'll learn about building a functional and comfortable home for very little money, and you’ll start with one or more shipping containers. 

    Shipping container construction is not brand-new – people have been building homes and other sorts of enclosed structures out of shipping containers for several decades.  It is, however, along with the tiny home movement, becoming more popular to build smaller homes, for a few thousand dollars instead of a few hundred thousand dollars.  A shipping container home is an easy first home to build for yourself.  On grid?  Off grid?  Both options are available to those of you building a shipping container home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386670865
    Shipping Container Home: All about Building Them, Organizing and Designing a Functional Interior!: Tiny House Living Guide

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      Shipping Container Home - Michael Hansen

      Introduction

      Trends in housing come and go. Technologies come and go in the construction industry. But it is interesting that with all our centuries of home-building experience, most people, in the Western world at least, cannot pay cash for outright ownership of their home.

      One housing trend that is noteworthy and seems to be here to stay is that of building homes and other working and living structures from steel shipping containers of one or more lengths. The containers form the outer structure as well as inner walls, ceilings and floors.  The steel shipping containers are that sturdy and durable!

      Formally invented in the US in the mid-1950s by a trucker named McLean (who owned the 5th largest US trucking firm at the time), and made widely accepted around the world by the US military, these standardized containers ended up reducing shipping costs by 90%! How?  They facilitate and speed up on- and off-loading for both ocean vessels and trucks, and have standardized the trucking and ocean shipping of dry goods.

      Today these containers are variously called dry cargo containers, ocean cargo containers, sea containers, ISBU units (Inter-modal Steel Building Unit), and ISO containers. In the decades since then, people have been using abandoned or purchased shipping containers to build out enclosed utilitarian spaces ... and now homes, and most especially, in this millennium.

      Although the first officially permitted residential home made of shipping containers in the state of California in the US only dates from 2009, shipping containers have been used for creating residential and other types of enclosed spaces for decades. We see them in places as diverse as Australia and New Zealand, Germany and other European countries, India and Africa, as well as in almost every region of the United States.

      Even today, after decades of individuals finding workarounds to current building laws, national and local authorities are a bit at a loss as to how to regulate or legislate home construction from steel shipping containers.  In many localities, and this applies to more than one country, it is generally understood that if a shipping container home or other residential or working structure is constructed to be a permanent building, it requires the builder to respect normal building permitting processes.  The workaround that many people have found is that if the home is on wheels, it bypasses the need for building permits.  And thus was born, alongside the recreational vehicle industry, the trend toward tiny homes on wheels as well as mobile-ready shipping container homes.

      This does not mean by far that larger and permanent shipping container homes are not being built!  Quite the contrary.  There are more and more of them in almost every region.  Architects, interior designers, and structural engineers have gotten in on this trend to provide a gamut of products and services, including stock blueprints, customized blueprints, construction management, space-saving suggestions and designs, and predictable as well as outright original outer shapes for these shipping container homes.

      As with many trends, there are some clear reasons for this one having gotten off the ground at all.  Especially with the economic downturn of the mid-2000s which continues almost worldwide today, retirees leaving the workforce and young people entering the workforce for the first time are in agreement: Our housing costs

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