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As the need for space and affordable housing continues to grow over the years, builders are looking up, building upwards, and utilizing all of the resources available to them. Shipping containers are becoming a valuable resource for innovative solutions to affordable housing around the world. This case is no different.

During that year of passive and eco-friendly construction, shipping container homes were just emerging onto the scene and beginning to look elegant, beautiful, and feasible. Part of this shift in perception was due to innovators such as Dallas, Texas residential design firm, M Gooden Design, and their chic shipping container designs like the PV14 house.

Affordable housing remains a complicated global issue. Humanitarian efforts to provide safe, affordable housing have found clever ways to provide shelter and homes for those in need. One of the ways in which affordable homes can be implemented is via durable and inexpensive materials such as shipping containers.

Artists and designers are taking their talents to new heights and expressing themselves with new mediums of creation. Some architects have taken their interest in sculpture and design into their realm of building design and have created many unique and breathtaking designs using plenty of unconventional materials, namely shipping containers.

When people think about buying their first home, they probably don’t immediately think about a storage container. But for some, a shipping container is the perfect solution for a low-budget, easily movable home.

Homes and residential buildings are getting reinvented with shipping containers. Shipping container homes and complexes are popping up all over the world as more people are realizing the cost-effective benefits to using containers in their construction processes.

One of the ways in which people are reducing the amount of environmental waste they create, as well as curtailing excessive purchases, are with tiny homes, one of the best and most easily constructed of which are homes made from shipping containers.

Have you been dreaming of a vacation home, but haven’t been able to afford it? Recently, consumers have been purchasing shipping containers for uses other than shipping goods. People have transformed plain shipping containers into luxurious swimming pools, portable farms, and trendy restaurants.

Flipping shipping containers into homes is happening around the country at an incredible rate. In Louisville, KY’s Smoketown neighborhood, a man is busy constructing a shipping container home that he hopes will be the first of many. “They are air tight, water tight,” Richard Ronald of RJ Ronald Creative Design and Construction said. 

Have you been intrigued by the thought of living in a shipping container home? Maybe you are getting ready to be an empty nester and are looking for a way to downsize. Or perhaps you’re single and wanting to have your space without going into too much debt.

The massive oversupply of shipping containers in ports all around the world has inspired many environmentalists to drum up interest in repurposing these containers. Because returning them to their port of origin is often too costly, it makes a lot of sense – both economically and environmentally – to repurpose these containers by turning them into home.