This is a great example of an remote off-grid tiny home. The land is privately owned but surrounded by the Tahoe National Forest at just over 7000-feet deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. While shipping containers are heavy and somewhat complicated to retrofit into housing, they make excellent building blocks that can be completed away from …
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Incredible new take on the shipping container home. It’s wild exterior hides a clean and modern interior inside. A 160 square feet converted shipping container in Boulder, Colorado. Designed by Rhino Cubed.” – Tiny House Swoon Source: Zulu Green via Tiny House Swoon
This isn’t a tiny container home, but there will probably be many lessons learned & shared by these folks that could help future tiny container owner-builders. Today started with snow and ended with cutting the first hole out of our containers. We cut out the guest bathroom window and put in the frame… The frame …
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The Shipping Container Home was still a new concept when Chrissie designed and built this prototype for her Architectural Thesis project. The home is made from a 20′ container and “expands” to be a 250sq.ft living space. When the home is not in use, or for shipping, the “rooms” slide into the container on tracks; …
Cúbica has designed Casa Cúbica, a compact dwelling built from a 20-foot shipping container. A 20-foot container has just 160 ft2 of space but Cúbica stretches it out with a short extension at one end. They market it mainly as a vacation home that sleeps up to four. However it would also be suited for …
The premade container home maker Cargotecture now offers a prefab home that is a perfect way to downsize yet retain the comforts of living in a larger space. The c-series 640 Lookout model measures 640 square feet, and features a large living area with a kitchen, a spacious bedroom and bathroom, a media room and …
Sukup Manufacturing is a small company based in Sheffield, Iowa, which primarily manufactures agricultural products, which includes grain bins. About three years ago, Sukup also began manufacturing grain silo homes to be used as disaster relief housing in Haiti following the devastating earthquake there. They called this grain silo home a Safe T Home, and …
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The one-bedroom, one bathroom home was built using two, 20-foot containers with cutouts for windows and doors. There’s a prefab bathroom inside and the interior is insulated with a recycled content material. Located in Thailand, the home features a roof layer that’s raised above the home — not unlike the roof design of the Ultimate …
Lulu, a single mom from Southern California, recently went back to school, which prevented her from working full time to pay a market rent. Due to this she was forced to move out of her conventional home, so instead she decided to build for herself and her small daughter a home from a shipping container. …
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This innovative shipping container home measures 500 square feet including the deck space, and is located in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It comes complete with a small dipping pool and would make a great beach home or lake cabin. While this small home can be hooked up to utilities, it is designed to also function completely …
This series of small container-like homes have been designed by architecture studio, Cannatà & Fernandes. The units were developed as a type of modular dwelling that could serve several uses; temporary housing, an environmental observatory, an outpost, a bar, or a Kiosk. The modules are prefabricated, and can be mounted with photovoltaic panels to provide …
