Using shipping containers for housing

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Interesting concept.

Shipping Containers Home

How would you like to live in shipping containers?

Might sound crazy, but the house pictured is just that -- seven

recycled steel shipping containers, recycled to create one eco-friendly

home. Bernard Morin and Joyce Labelle,

an architect and his wife in Ste. Adele, Quebec, built this 3,000

square foot home for only $175,000 -- saving them about $225,000. And

now Morin hopes to make a business out of the design. The home, built in a

Cubist style to accommodate the

sloping setting, is resistant to rust, mold, termites and fire.

Is this the wave of the future? Would you buy one?

Check out our video series documenting the building of a home with shipping

containers.

http://www.bobvila.com/OnTheLevel/Shipping-Containers-Home-4109.html

http://www.bobvila.com/BVTV/Bob_Vila/Project-0201.html