A shipping container to live in? Really? Well, yes! You couldn’t ask for a more durable, strong, or available material to build your home from. And it’s far less expensive than a stick built abode. Because of their basic regtangular design, cargo containers lend themselves easily to turning into offices, studios, schools, or apartments.
Because shipping containers are in a modular design, adding new construction is as simple as stacking more containers on top of each other. Designed with an interlocking system they can be easily connected together and in some countries can be found stacked 12 high to form apartments.
When you compare cost of erecting a stick built home to cargo containers, you’ll find them inexpensive. Shipping containers don’t require the bigger and more expensive foundations needed by brick and mortar buildings. Construction involves little in the way of labor since a shipping container requires only small changes. Cargo containers can be purchased from companies that specialize in used, quality units, such as West Coast Containers. Many buildings have already gone up utilizing the sea container. There might be one in your neighborhood someday!
All in all, with the price of housing and the need for affordable dwellings, it makes only good sense to use cargo containers for something other than storage.
