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DIY & Home Improvement

stopwastingmymoney

(2,283 posts) Mon Feb 24, 2020, 11:52 AM Feb 2020

Anyone else interested in building with shipping containers? [View all]

Our 15 year plan includes retirement and finding a couple acres to build our home with chickens, dogs and serious gardening

I’ve started making sketches for a 3 container camp we can live in for a few years and then later Airbnb.

Has anyone done anything like this?

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Anyone else interested in building with shipping containers? [View all] stopwastingmymoney Feb 2020 OP

I've always been intrigued by it, Drum Feb 2020 #1

Building a dry storage building now. safeinOhio Feb 2020 #2

what did you pay for your containers? Kali Feb 2020 #4

$2.500 each. safeinOhio Feb 2020 #6

way cheaper than a gorilla shed! Kali Feb 2020 #8

I have some friends that have. Kali Feb 2020 #3

Keep them off the ground as that seems to leach up. safeinOhio Feb 2020 #7

I think it was mainly from using a ventless gas heater Kali Feb 2020 #9

Check out Grand Designs, Series 14 (4 of 10 shows): The Shipping Containers House Auggie Feb 2020 #5

Really cool, thank you stopwastingmymoney Feb 2020 #10

I love how setting the modules in a cross like that stopwastingmymoney Feb 2020 #11

Yeah ... Auggie Feb 2020 #12

Thanks for this! Drum Feb 2020 #15

I don't get the attraction. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2020 #13

Actually it is cheaper. You get your entire external structure stopwastingmymoney Feb 2020 #14