Friday, April 28, 2017

SHIPPING CONTAINER HOME DESIGNS

I AM BACK.! I took a slight hiatus from blogging due to my school schedule and finishing up my last huge projects my senior year. All projects are completed and I had a great success at my portfolio show.



I meet a few professionals that gave wonderful advice and congratulated me on my next steps...since this milestone is completed now I can hit the blogging world again and share my favorite trends, colors, and designs by awesome designers.

San Jose, Costa Rica
The latest trend that I am fascinated by is shipping container homes. Once I saw one design and did my research I realized this new idea is not going anywhere no time soon.

Shipping container homes are modified or re-purposed used shipping containers used to stick them together to build a house. Why are these 20-40 ft. containers so popular? With proper planning, you can design and build a fabulous home for half the price of a "everyday" house.
I can give four reasons why this new home design is a sure head turner.

1. Easy to Construct
It is easy to design and construct a home design. All you need is a shipping container(DUH HUH.!), buying or renting it from a company, and the container being dropped in your backyard or empty lot. Containers can easily be incorporated into another container. You will definitely want to add those windows, doors, and maybe some stairs.

2. Go Wild.!
Let your imagination and creativity go free. With container homes, you can design any flair to your new home. Ceiling to floor windows, have a garden on the roof, or paint it an awesome Sherwin-Williams color(Rave Red perhaps? Ha.!). Have fun with it.

Curacavi, Chile
3. Environmentally Friendly
Most companies sell used or new containers. If you choose to reuse a ship container, you are saving the environment by reusing steel. Use solar panels. Build a home that supplies its own energy. Build a patio out front or up top next to the garden. Eating outside can help save energy and makes friends and family coming together worth wild.
Jim Poteet
4. Bringing Personal Style
Living in a shipping container will sure get attention anyways, so why not design a home with its own personal style. Let this architectural design speak on its own. Go modern or contemporary, select colors that are not the norm. This is an awesome design that will let anyone be creative.
Coromandel, New Zealand



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    Refugia Stein @ Container Domes

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