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17 Cool Container Homes To Inspire Your Own

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May 9, 2024 By Riley E. Carlson 14 Comments

Container homes are what you would imagine them to be. Rectangular, cozy, built from shipping containers, and cost way less than regular homes. Looking at container homes’ designs ignited a crazy idea in me.

Forget about a cabin in the woods. One of these shipping container home plans is up for building. Continue reading for your own shipping container house design idea!

RELATED: 15 Incredible Self-Sustaining Homes For Your Homesteading Passion

Container Homes You Wish Were Your Own!

Mature woman working in home office in container house in backyard | Container Homes You Wish Were Your Own!

1. Elegant Modern Container Home

Concept Container house by the sea in blue with beautiful pool | Elegant Modern Container Home

While this is an elaborate design for a container home and anything but a tiny house, you’ll love this. After all, it can pass for an architectural marvel. It’s an ultra-modern home for those who want to keep up. With straight lines and floor-to-ceiling windows with glass panels, it’s anything but recycled.

2. Luxury Shipping Container Home

Modern metal White building made from shipping house containers | Luxury Shipping Container Home

Check this lovely tiny house listed in homes for sale at a jaw-dropping price of only $35,000! You never get cozy prefab homes at less than $40, 000.

For your home extension or a guest house, spare yourself the hefty construction price. With 160 square feet of living space, you can have this complete with furnishings. It is also water and electricity ready via RV-style connections.

3. Modern Container Beach House

Modern metal building house made from shipping yellow containers on the beach | Modern Container Beach House

Beach houses and holiday homes cost a fortune, but we all love to have one. It is a good investment and it shouldn’t break the bank to build. These beach container homes look promising though some frown on the idea.

There are building issues to consider such as the weather and maintenance costs. Check out the interior of this container home and see if it makes you smile instead.

4. Modern Design Container Home

House from a construction transport container sheathed | Modern Design Container Home

Container home plans build from either single or many cargo containers. This modern container home used four shipping containers. The lower levels of the container home’s exterior used pre-rusted corten steel.

The upper levels use expanded metal sheets. It also features floor-to-ceiling windows. And the interior is also like every other home.

5. House Built With 5 Cargo Containers

A house made from refurbish shipping container | House Built With 5 Cargo Containers

This couple built this stunning house from 5 shipping containers. Whatever your concerns in a shipping container house, it’s about to change. Take a tour of their container home and get inspiration for your own project.

6. Container Home And Studio

Mature woman working indoors in home office in container house in backyard | Container Home And Studio

If you’re a minimalist, you’ll love how this design managed to keep the original exterior of the cargo container. It gives it a rustic feel but the inside is still a homey and sweet vibe. If you have shipping containers for sale near you, this design is perfect.

7. Shipping Container Guest House

guesthouse made of shipping container night view | Shipping Container Guest House

With this guest house design, your guests will definitely feel at home with the privacy of a separate dwelling. Watch out! They might stay a few more days beyond their scheduled leave. View the interior of this container guest house and you’ll see what I mean.

8. Tiny Scale Shipping Container House

Front view of a twenty feet shipping container tiny house | Tiny Scale Shipping Container House

Even a single container home can provide you with the amenities of a regular home. Check out the interior of this container home as design inspiration for your own project. With double shipping containers, they make great single-family homes.

9. Alterra Glamping Shipping Container Home

Modern metal White building made from shipping house containers at night | Alterra Glamping Shipping Container Home

So you like the outdoors but dare not sleep on the ground? Build a long-lasting camp house without the expense of using shipping containers. Check out the interior’s floor plan for more ideas here. Take container living to a whole new level with this stylish shipping container house.

10. Tiny Container Home

Shipping Containers Conversion Modern Living Space | Tiny Container Home

With this design idea for a container home, what matters is the inside. View the interior of this unit and see the possibilities of a container home. Don’t you find it cozy and welcoming too?

11. Container Guest House With Eco-Roof

No room for a guest house and a garden in your small yard? Take this container ideal for a guest house with an eco-roof. This is sustainability and economy at its best. Take a tour of this container home here to get ideas for your own container home.

12. Cool Costa Rican Shipping Container House

Inexpensive and stylish, this container house is simple yet luxurious. This design for a container home is perfect for lakeside or the mountain. The floor-to-ceiling windows will allow you a 360-degree view. View the floor plan here to see the possibilities for your own.

13. Stylish Cargo Container Home

container cabin on the deck | Stylish Cargo Container Home

This container home design had me going wow! You know it’s built with cargo containers but the transformation is amazing. For minimalist homesteaders, nothing could be more perfect. Take a tour of the interior and check the floor plan. It’s a tiny house with a great and cozy living space.

14. Modified Sea Container Home

Concept Container house by the sea in blue with beautiful pool | Modified Sea Container Home

If you don’t want traces of a sea container to reflect on your home’s exterior, you can always improvise. Apply paint or conventional wall panels to better suit your taste. Take this modern container home with a touch of traditional materials. Use wood paneling for the exterior wall to hide the original cargo container.

15. Container Studio With A Garage

Metal shipping container house under construction with building material products in front yard | Container Studio With A Garage

Check out this design for a container studio that may well be your home, too! It has a two-door garage with an outdoor staircase. But you can make arrangements for a staircase indoors.

16. Rustic Container Country House

Part of modern rustic asian suburban home | Rustic Container Country House

‘Necessity is the mother of invention’, indeed in this shipping container farmhouse. Check out the interior of this humble unit that rivals those of conventional homes. For minimalist homesteaders, this container home is fantastic.

17. Nomad Tiny Shipping Container Home

isolated red container office | Nomad Tiny Shipping Container Home

Now, isn’t this one of the cheeriest container homes you’ve seen? It’s a prefab container home with cozy living space of almost 200 square feet. It is also solar-powered, perfect for off-grid living with style. Wait ’til you see the living space interior design and it’s sold!

Want the basics of building a shipping container home? Check this infographic!

How to Build a Container Home Ingographic | Also See 12 Cool Container Homes via https://homesteading.com
How To Build A Shipping Container Home – The Basics Photo by My Green Home Blog

As with anything else, there are advantages, disadvantages, downsides, and plus sides. Building a house, or homestead structure for that matter is not without its issues.

Building a house from a recycled shipping container, or container living isn’t problem-free. Well, it sure didn’t stop a lot of homesteaders from trying their hand at it!

Want to see more? Check out the most amazing shipping container homes from Sheltermode:

There you go, homesteaders! Home and building ideas using shipping and cargo containers. With shipping containers, you can build a home extension, a guest house, or an entire home.

Now you know you can recycle shipping containers into your dream home without costing you a fortune!

Which container home got your attention right off the bat? Let us know in the comments section below!

A true blue homesteader like you will dig these design ideas for self-sustaining homes!

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Comments

  1. John E Perry says

    July 19, 2019 at 4:02 PM

    Very interesting and motivating article! Keep up this good stuff!

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