Tweet Shipping Container Homes – New York Cities First? We all know that living in New York City can be a very expensive and fast paced environment. It seems as if only the wealthy can afford even a small fraction of a spot in Manhattan. The rent now-days is in the thousands per month and [...]

Tweet Neighbors Uncomfortable About ISBU Shipping Container Homes Wow!… Here we go.. There are always going to be some people out there in the world who are not happy about certain things. This does make sense because we are all different and have dissimilar interests and personalities. With that being said, I can understand that [...]

Tweet Are Shipping Container Homes A Bad Idea?   -  Nah,  Not at All ! I have read many numerous articles on shipping container homes. I also like to give the benefit of the doubt and chance for anyone to argue any aspects of why container homes are both a good and not so good idea. So, [...]

Tweet ISBU Cargo Container Homes When constructing or purchasing an ISBU shipping container home , you might ask “what precisely is necessitated in the method“? What is needed in buying, designing and fabricating an ISBU cargo container homes that are to a higher degree just art projects? There are several reasons one would consider living [...]

Tweet Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane resistant Container Homes I know hurricane Sandy has done billions of dollars in damage. It is very sad not only for the people who lost their lives but also who lost their homes, electricity and heat and having children to take care of during this winter. I know shipping container [...]

Tweet ISBU Shipping Container Homes – Would You like to Live in One?   The average price of a used ISBU shipping container is roughly $1,500 to $3,000 each. And, that’s for shipping containers that are 40 ft long x 8 ft wide x 8 ft tall.     One really astonishing thing about these [...]

Tweet Costa Rica Property and Entire Shipping Container Home Construction Business for Sale!  Including Container Home! San Ramon, Costa Rica 5800m2 Lot THE TIME IS NOW! The time has come for us here at: ContainerHomes.Net to sell our Property and ENTIRE Container Home Business in Beautiful Costa Rica! The time has also come for us [...]

Tweet The Jackaroo Shipping Container Home Design I recently visited  containerhome.info (an excellent web site about shipping container homes) and found this article about one of the latest container home designs today called the “Jackaroo“. I want to give full credit to containerhome.info for this information in respect that I am adding it to my [...]

Tweet Container Home Myths Below are some myths about container homes and shipping containers in general:   Constructing with cargo shipping containers is inexpensive The shipping containers themselves are not inexpensive, especially if you want a brand new one, but since they still have value as containers for either storage, a shed in your back [...]

Tweet Container House Plans – The  Original “Oblique” Container House!   The Oblique Container House Size: 1,042 sq. ft.  Style: Modern  Lot Type: Suburban, Urban   Depth: 20 ft.  Width: 46 ft.  Levels: 2  units: 9  Beds: 3  Baths: 2 full   Hotwater:In cavity  Elec: 240 v  Heating: Solar & In floor radiant  Mech: Natural [...]

Tweet I recently came across this article and had to share this with everyone: Check out these 6 really neat container homes below: This unequaled urban shipping container office and living space belongs to daiken-met architects in Gifu, Japan. It is approx 1,198 sq. Foot. in size and comprises of seven cargo shipping containers which [...]

Tweet Welding Secrets Revealed – by Pat Mitchell   There is nothing wrong with trying to make money from something you enjoy. Especially if it is a trade that you like doing that can also be applied and used for something you are interested in. Like, building a Shipping Container Home or helping in the [...]

Tweet Cargo Shipping Container Hotels? – Recycled Luxury on a Budget   Stay in a Cargo Container Hotel on Your next business or vacation travel ! The photos below are some examples of what a Cargo Shipping Container Hotel looks like. For starters, what an incredible idea! To use “used” shipping containers and recycle them [...]

Tweet Used Shipping Container as an Emergency Shelter ? Shipping Container Homes can be used as storage, an office, a swimming pool, bomb shelter and homes. But what about an Container Home Emergency Shelter? There are millions and millions of these container shells just sitting in gigantic container yards or ports all over the world? [...]

Tweet Container Home Construction Book – Primary Building Blocks The  building CD  “Container Home Construction” is a book about the method of exploring, buying, delivering and constructing a dwelling from the beginning employing a steel-shipping container as the primary building block. There are 1000s of steel cargo shipping containers littering the ports just about everywhere [...]

Tweet Container Homes Sizes and Dimensions – 45 Foot Shipping Container     At barely over ten% bigger in distance than it is a forty foot twin, a forty-five foot shipping container is among some of the internationally standardized and interchangeable  International Standards Organization. The other monetary standard ISO container lengths are twenty, forty, forty-eight [...]

Tweet Building homes and offices with used shipping containers has made a gigantic leap in progress over the past few years. As time passes on, we are hearing more news about container homes and even container home kits to actually build yourself. Regarding the plummeting economy, most people are double checking prices and keeping a [...]