One Man Built A Home Out Of Shipping Containers And It’s The Coolest Thing Ever

June 05, 2015
Hawaii

Would we live in a shipping container? No? Well, what if it looked like this?

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Joseph Dupuis classifieds site for $58,000 in Canadian dollars

Dupuis says that he built a little cabin from three 20-foot shipping containers cooling system

For critics that protest about a cabin’s miss of a toilet, Dupuis says it’s due to a authorised issue. “If we puncture for septic, a home becomes a dwelling,” he told The Huffington Post. “I wanted a whole indicate of a cabin to be that we can mangle it down and pierce it whenever we need to.”

Dupuis pronounced he started conceptualizing a residence in 2010, and worked on his skeleton for about an hour any day for 3 years. He assembled a home on his family’s farm, building 95 percent of a cabin himself and withdrawal a rest to electricians and other subcontractors. He bought any enclosure for $3,400 CAD and worked 12-13 hour days for 3 months to finish it. The tough work and formulation paid off, as his cabin — and a low costs — are truly impressive. When he lived in a cabin himself, Dupuis’ winter heating check was usually $35, and a many costly check he paid belonged to his phone.

“I wish to assistance as many people as we can get out of a slot of large banks and make people some-more self-sufficient,” he told HuffPost. “I see my friends shopping $400,000 houses and they’re in debt for a subsequent 35 years. It’s flattering retrograde — we don’t need these costly homes and all this things we have in a lives.”

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