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Ep. 121 – The Container Guru: Transforming Spaces with Shipping Containers
What is a Shipping Container Home?
Building your own home is one of the most rewarding things you can do for yourself and your family. There are so many advantages to a custom home build and so many reasons to take on this challenge. However, if you have ever looked into the cost of building a home, you know how expensive it can be. That’s why building a shipping container home is such a great option.
Building a container home is a great way to get all the luxuries of a custom home without the expense. With the alternative housing movement booming, there has never been a better time to start. By understanding the basics, you can decide if it is the right choice for you.
A shipping container home is a house built using recycled containers as the structure of the home. Shipping containers are used to move goods across the world in all kinds of ways. They are designed to fit on trucks, trains, and ships and are mostly uniform in size and shape. Because of this uniformity, they are perfect for building interesting custom homes.
Shipping containers are usually made of steel and have boxy, rectangular shapes. This means that they are a great choice if you love the mid-century modern style of house. All you have to do is arrange the containers in a certain way and furnish the inside.
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What is a Shipping Container Pool?
Shipping container pools refer to modular, often pre-fabricated, swimming pools made out of upcycled (used) shipping containers. They’re typically cheaper to buy and build compared to traditional swimming pools. The typical lifespan of a shipping container pool is around 20 years.
Advantages of Shipping Container Swimming Pools
Why should you get a shipping container pool? These are some of our favorite benefits that you should know about!
MORE AFFORDABLE * RELOCATABLE
Perhaps the single most common appeal of choosing a container pool over a traditional pool is its affordability. Still, it’s impossible to ignore that much like equating container homes with real houses, it can be unfair to compare a shipping container with a real, in-ground pool. The fact is that while both are swimmable and generally durable, they’re just not the same.
If you decide that you want to move you can take your container pool with you and relocate it to your new home or resell it. 100% transportable.