How to Design Your Own Shipping Container Home
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Making Plans for a Shipping Container House
If you are making plans for a shipping container house, you can do a lot of the design piece yourself. In fact, many choose to manage the entire project of their new container home themselves. It’s another way to build your own home for less.
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you lay out your design:
- Size of land available for your home
- How and where your shipping container home will be situated on your plot of land
- Total square footage you need for living space
- Type and size of foundation for your home
- Insulation type and amount to keep the interior a comfortable living space
- Number and placement of windows
- How to finish interior walls
- Where you will need plumbing and electrical situated inside the home
- Number of shipping containers required
- Resources for used shipping containers
- How to select good, quality used containers
- Number of containers that will need a wall removed
- Materials for finishing the exterior walls
- Roofing options
Because the containers are uniform in size and you know you are working with boxes that are 20 or 40 feet in length and 8 feet wide, you can at least begin the initial plans yourself. Sketching out your thoughts is a great way to get started. Paper and a ruler or an online tool can help out.
Shipping containers make a great second home option if you own some remote piece of land and haven’t been able to afford to build your ideal getaway spot. Take advantage of that property by building a small home out of used shipping containers. The shape could be as simple as a couple of shipping containers positioned side by side.
Part of the fun and excitement of making plans for a shipping container house is your ability to completely customize the layout. Have fun with your design, get creative, and see what unique plan you can come up with that works just for you.
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