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Cargo Container Homes. All you need is around $2000 to begin building one of these epic homes – made from recycled shipping containers! Check out some of these amazing creations!
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Cargo Container Homes All you need is around $2000 to begin building one of these epic homes – made from recycled shipping containers! Check out some of these amazing creations! Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com/a-shipping-container-costs-about-2000-what-these-15-people-did-with-that-is-beyond-epic/
A luxury home doesn’t always necessarily mean thousands of square footage, towering great rooms and gilded toilets. Take these homes for example: to begin building one of these epic houses, all you need is $2,000. That $2,000 will buy you a shipping container. What you do with that shipping container… well, that’s completely up to you. Some creative people have found a way to transform this rudimentary “room” with metal siding into luxury housing that blows us away.
The best part about this one is that you know they made it out of shipping containers/
Steel shipping container homes, also called storage container homes, offer a fast, green, and sustainable approach to building.
Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Huston-Tillotson University in Texas has transformed a dumpster into a home and plans to live in it for a full year, so that he can learn as much as he can about sustainable living.
The inside of the dumpster The experiment is called the Dumpster Project and its main aim is a hands-on study of how much space a person actually needs to live.
The project is planned to be off-the-grid using solar orientation, passive cooling, green roofs, pellet stove heating and photovoltaic's to create electricity.