Container Homes

TweetBuilding your very own container home can be an experience. Why not get some official blueprints to help guide you through? Click the below banner to find out more on building your very own shipping container house ! “…We here at ContainerHouse.Info would love to hear any comments about Used Shipping Containers…” Please visit our [...]

TweetThe Advantages and Disadvantages of Bamboo Flooring Designing and building with bamboo has of late just began to surface onto the green construction methods for environmentally safe building and re-usable resources. Bamboo flooring construction has its “goods and bads” when comparing to your standard construction methods of today. More benefits outweigh the negative in the [...]

TweetSounds weird or even uncertain but it may actually be an experience living inside a shipping container home! Imagine your new residence and mail address being a ISBU container house? Believe it or not, there are many people living inside of these now days. There is nothing strange or weird about this anymore. Container homes [...]

TweetThere is no doubt that shipping containers are tough. Built tough from weathering corrugated steel, these incredible tough building blocks of international trade are designed to withstand stacking, stuffing and strapping and are reused over and over again. There is an estimate of over 18 million of these containers floating, riding and flying around the [...]

TweetIn today’s society, peoples careers are always changing either for the better or different. Sometimes a lateral movement in their jobs involve an entire new structure of living quarters. A Hybrid Home may be in order. Modern architecture is in tremendous demand for an upgrade to support this new phase of career changing. The pace [...]

TweetShipping Container Home Floor Plans Hello and thank you for requesting a post on Shipping Container Home Floor Plans! If you are interested, bellow are some examples of a few cargo container home floor plans you may be able to use if you ever decide to build a container home either by yourself or with [...]

TweetImagine that you have your shipping container home all assembled and ready to move into. Whether your new unit is hidden up in the mountains, near a tropical rain forest, in a valley or facing the strong currents of the ocean. You have all of your interiors and exteriors all fixed up and things are [...]

TweetThe installment of steel bars into the windowpanes and doorways of a shipping container home. When you’ve cut off the hollows in the shipping container then you’ll require to establish the window frame set up prior to you welding on the metal bars. This window set up first off calls for the 2x2x2 “C” bars [...]

TweetOk, Here it is!  How would you feel about living inside a cargo shipping container house today? If you cannot come up with a yes or no answer, then you may feel somewhere in the middle. Lets get something straight off the bat now, As of now, I do NOT live inside one but I [...]

As Shipping Container Homes are becoming more popular, more people are starting to turn toward living in one.

TweetIf any of you have been wondering Terry Herb (founder of Containerist.com) has been up to, you are about to find out. He have been working hard on a book project for some time now. It happens to be a trade paperback guidebook entitled  “No Building Codes“. It is a good read which will help [...]

TweetEmergency Shelter Homes Since the earthquake in January 2010 in Haiti, our company, Containerhomes.net, has received many requests for international quotes. We are now doing an extensive amount of research and product testing on creating emergency shelters using shipping containers as the main building block. All over the word, there are natural disasters taking the [...]

TweetActually, the title of this blog post is “How we did it!! What I will be writing about in the next few blogs will be the following: 1. “How to sand, prime and paint a shipping container” 2. “How to transport, unload and install a shipping container” 3. “How to create a door, window, bathroom [...]

TweetSteel Building and Container Homes It’s really weird to even think about staying in containers. Containers are meant for commodity storage and shipping; how can it contribute to finding us a room or space where we can conduct our daily activities? Strange as it may seem to you, container homes have marked the age of [...]

TweetThere are numerous grounds for recycling shipping containers into houses instead of something additional. Among the most significant rationalities is the sum and total amount of energy called for to re-purpose them. David Cross, a business developing conductor, explains that melting an 8000 pound steel shipping container to create steel beams, for instance, calls for [...]