Luxury Decor To Fit Your Shipping Container Home
If you’re looking for sustainable, functional living, a shipping container home could be perfect for you. It’s amazing how easy it is to turn basic shipping containers into comfortable, modern homes, complete with features like skylights, large windows for plenty of natural lighting, and plenty of opportunities for green living with geothermal heating and natural insulation. If you want style and utility, a shipping container home is...
How to Pack a Forty foot Shipping Container
Packing a shipping container for moving requires quite a bit of work, but you can really gain quite a bit of an advantage if you use one during your moving process! There are a few things you will need to deal with before you can call it a day when moving. The following tips will guide you through how to pack when you need a forty foot shipping container to lug your belongings across the globe: Ensure all your boxes and pieces are...
Shipping Container Home Design Plans
Hot off the press and sharper than ever is our newest Shipping Container Home Design from Big Boom Design. This design is a re-issue of a previous design named C-Section. This design went somewhat viral in 2011 when I first posted it to this blog. The new version has been touched up tremendously and contains a few features including: skylights, hardwood floors, and sweet VW Bug (it would be cooler if it were a Baja Bug). If...
New Shipping Container Design for the NC Mountains
The new Shipping Container Home Design is based around one forty foot container and four twenty foot containers. It features a large sun room built on top of the forty foot shipping container. The lower level is a two car garage, workshop and gust bedroom with a single bath. The second level up is the main living room and Kitchen that opens up into the sun room. The top level is the master bedroom and bath with a large porch. The roof...
Business is Booming – Shipping Container Homes are Back!
The web site design business is booming at Big Boom Design so it’s been tough to break away and work on any other projects. However, I recently jumped back into some Shipping Container Home designs for a few hours. The screen shot to the right is from a 3D modeling program called Rhino. Similar to Google SketchUp but used more for product design and industrial design rather than architecture. The container home design shown to...