Shipping-container homes

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Definetly an interesting use, and some pretty cool homes as well!

Twelve amazing shipping container houses

By Brian Clark Howard

Posted Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:50am PDT

(Photo: Urban Space Management)

Invented more than five decades ago, the modern shipping container is the linchpin in our global distribution network of products. In the containers go toys from China, textiles from India, grain from America, and cars from Germany. In go electronics, chocolate, and cheese.

While a number of resourceful people have converted shipping containers into make-shift shelters at the margin of society for years, architects and green designers are also increasingly turning to the strong, cheap boxes as source building blocks.

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/daily_green_ne...ner-houses.html

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I have considered this option myself. Seeing some of those designs gives me some new ideas. I had heard of these before but had no idea there was a whole industry for it. Some of these containers can be had for less than $3000. Think about it. You could "frame" your whole house for less than 20K.