The trend of building shipping container homes seems to be slowing down, but that doesn’t mean it’s going away. There are many benefits of converting containers into homes, one of them being their mobility. And this creation by boat builder Evans really takes advantage of this, since he designed the home so that it is easy to move.
Evans used a 20-foot shipping container to build his home, but it is not one of the standard ones which can be obtained cheaply at most larger ports. This one has a reinforced roof, and doors along the side wall, and costs around $4000 to purchase. Since it already had a large opening on the side, he left it intact for the project and only concentrated on the interior.
His experience in building boats really shows in the clever interior design he employed. There is plenty of storage and plenty of space, and the rich woodwork that everything inside is made of makes it seem more like a luxury yacht than a shipping container house. The home features a lovely kitchen on one end, which has room enough for a standard sized fridge. It also features a high table that can be used as a counter, dining table or work area. The bed is suspended from the ceiling above the sofa, which pulls out to form a double bed. There is also bathroom with an RV style toilet that can either be connected to a sewer or a tank to empty it.
The home has 12V DC lighting throughout which can run on or even off the grid. The batteries and tanks are cleverly hidden behind the fridge. And since he didn’t alter the shipping container to build this home, it can easily be closed up just as it was when still used for shipping goods, loaded onto a truck or ship, and transported to anywhere in the world.
Evans, however, is planning to add more containers onto it, sealing them together along the existing openings in order to create a larger home, since he plans to settle down in the near future.
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