Shipping Container Homes: The Step-by-step Guide to Shipping Container Homes (The Complete Guide to Understanding Shipping Container Homes) - Paperback

by Glenda Alfano (Author)

Many people agree that traditional housing options are bad for the environment, and see shipping container homes as the perfect alternative home solution to our climate problem. Plus, there's a unique satisfaction that one gets from building their own home.

As with any endeavor, building a shipping container home can be intimidating if you lack the information surrounding the rules and regulations, how to choose the right shipping container, or how to determine the correct foundation. I often get asked, can i get an internet connection in a shipping container home?

Here is a preview of what's included...

• The history of the shipping container and its typical dimensions
• Tips on how to decide which type of shipping container home is best for you
• How to transport your shipping container and other cost considerations
• Interior design tips that other container home patrons have used before you
• Ways to add space to your home once you've converted it into a living space
• Much, much more!

This book is not a positive mumbo jumbo letter that is here to sell you on the idea of shipping container homes. Instead, this book expects that you are an adult who can make your own decisions as long as you are given the correct facts. Therefore, this book will start out by giving you the good and the bad of shipping container homes so you can be aware of the potential challenges that can arise when building with this material. After that, the book will give you a great deal of useful and practical information in regards to building shipping container homes.