Welcome to our shipping container home. Kick your flip-flops off, beware of the dog and come on in! It started with a dream! We followed through with modeling a concept and finally realized our ambition to built a home using four shipping containers.
Most of my adult life I’ve lived in warehouses, above pubs, hotels and condos. The very thought of living in a traditional house seems quite boring to me so when I first stumbled upon the idea of building a shipping container home, I was instantly hooked. Fortunately my wife was all for it too.
We have recently had our dream home featured in the ‘Container Homes’ book series and you can get your dirty hands on a digital copy by visiting their website here and downloading the ‘Container Home Book 161 – Parallel Offset with Atrium Home‘.
Alternatively, you can get a PDF version here: Shipping-Container-Homes-Book-161-Trat-Thailand
The Container Homes website is full of vital information and some tremendous resources including: 3D Shipping Container Home Design Software, Shipping Container Drawings, Video Tutorials and Shipping Container House Plans to name but a few. If you are interested in how to build a shipping container home, it should be your first port of call.
Outside the Box
-
- Roof Deck
-
- Access to Roof Deck
-
- Back Deck and Roof Access
-
- Back Deck
-
- Office
-
- Car Port and Made Cave
-
- Front Entrance
-
- Thinglish Garden
-
- Front Door
-
- Office with a View
-
- Thinglish Country Garden
-
- Access from Car Port
If you missed our posts about designing our home, you can view the 3D mock-ups here.
And we have a post here that covers our early construction days.
Inside our Shipping Container Home
-
- Fitted Kitchen by Star Mark
-
- Contempory fitted kitchen
-
- do you want to see the stars tonight?
-
- Office with view across our land
-
- Morgen bath
-
- Space and water saving toilet
-
- Space to hang some art
-
- Bringing the outside in
-
- View to Thinglish country garden
-
- Spacious living room
-
- From back deck to front door
Are You Building a Shipping Container Home?
We get asked lots of questions about how we approached designing and constructing a home made from shipping containers. “What’s it like actually living in a box?” “Doesn’t it get really hot inside?” and of course ‘How much did it cost to build a shipping container home?’
If you are serious about building a shipping container home and want to know more, we are available for online consultations via Skype or Facetime.
For a 1 Hour Consultation Click the Button Below
For a 2 Hour Consultation Click the Button Below
Once payment has been taken we will email you to schedule a mutually convenient time for an online consultation.
Get Your Simple Step-By-Step
Plans to Design and Build a Shipping Container Home from Scratch
Click Here!
If you enjoy visiting our home, leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!
You can also follow us on Facebook and see all the latest coming and going on in our Thinglish Lifestyle on Instagram.
Our Shipping Container Home
3 Comments
Hi Perry,
I am considering a container home in Thailand. I guess you found the land via your wife’s family. I think the water harvesting will be vital for you plants / plantation in the coming years.
Are you “on grid” for electricity? I would be interested in your build costs.
Best wishes, David.
Hi David,
Nice to hear from you.
Lots of questions, for me to answer them in detail would take a while.
We have a consultation service. I’d be happy to schedule a call with you where you can AMA (Ask Me Anything).
I’ll tell you from experience all the pros and cons of building a shipping container house, living in Thailand, buying land, on-off grid living, cost and connections.
If you are seriously considering building a container house in Thailand, I believe we can provide invaluable information and lots of food for thought for you before you start investing time and money.
Lemme know. P.
Trackbacks for this post
[…] we built our shipping container home we had all the windows and doors custom made. This was an enormous expense and an unnecessary one […]