This is a custom staircase that leads you to the rooftop of this shipping container tiny house
It’s built by Custom Container Living LLC out of Archie, Missouri. Pretty cool, right? What do you think?
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This is a 40ft tiny house that’s actually a shipping container even though it doesn’t look like it!
The 380 square foot house is built by Custom Container Living, and they added a raised gable roof to the structure which along with the cedar lap siding, which totally disguises the container! What do you think?
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Adam from HoneyBox INC. built this stunning off-grid shipping container cabin on top of a mountain in British Columbia, Canada.
The cabin is built with three 20 foot shipping containers. The middle container is bolted to a cement block foundation using twist locks, and the two outer containers are cantilevered using lashing rods.
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This is the 40-ft. Rustic Retreat XL shipping container tiny house by Back Country Containers in Houston, TX.
The Rustic Retreat XL uses a 40 foot container and is intended to be used as a spacious and remote camping/hunting retreat. Two different floor plans are available.  The first option offers 2 separate bedrooms with the potential to sleep up to 5 people.  The second option includes one separate bedroom and a dedicated gear/atv storage room with large exterior doors. Both floor plans include a full bathroom with shower stall and a full kitchen with sink, mini fridge, and breakfast bar.1
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Mat and Danielle from Exploring Alternatives spent a day at the Storstac Inc. shipping container yard in Toronto, Canada to learn the ins and outs of building with new and used shipping containers.
While building with shipping containers is not necessarily cheaper than conventional building, it does have advantages because containers are modular, mobile, durable, and they have a unique, modern look.
They can be do it yourself friendly if you’ve worked with steel before, or if you find a company to take care of the steel work for you so that you can focus on framing and finishing it from the inside.
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Here are 3 of their key takeaways:
This is a 320 sq. ft. shipping container tiny house conversion.
It’s designed, converted, and built by Live Simply Homes in the Western United States.
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This is a 48′ shipping container tiny house.
It’s located in Phoenix, Arizona and is currently for sale for $25,000.
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This is a boat builder’s 20′ shipping container tiny home.
From the outside, you would never guess that there’s a home inside (until you open the doors).
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Several years ago John Wells bought 40 acres in this West Texas area called Brewster County for $8,000 after selling his mortgaged home in upstate New York. Then he built his own debt-free tiny home within 9 days for only $1600.
As time has gone on he has created his own solar shower, composting toilet, bicycle-powered washing machine, greenhouse, and more. The property now even has an Airstream trailer guest house, office space and additional housing made out of shipping containers, a solar oven, chicken coop, and a water collection system. His tiny house also features a swamp cooler (also known as an evaporative cooler) which he made himself to cool his cabin for next to nothing. John has the ability to store up to 21,000 gallons of water on his property.
“The main reason I came to this area is because there are no building restrictions whatsoever and that’s really hard to find in this country,” says Wells. “I came out here to get away from debt.” John went from a 2800 sq. ft. house with loads of debt to a 128 sq. ft. tiny house with zero debt and lots of self-sufficiency.
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