Mobile Dwelling Unit
LOT-EK, New York, N.Y.
Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked together to create more living space. That’s not the case with the Mobile Dwelling Unit, a proudly single-decker shipping container home that avoids the claustrophobic “long but narrow” syndrome by incorporating pop-out elements that extended from the 40-foot long, 8-foot wide core of the home, accordion-style. If and when the home is in transit, the elements — kitchen, bathroom, reading nook, bed, desk, sofa and storage space — fold back into their slots.
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Mobile home manufacturers have been doing this for years -- they're called "Tip Outs", and add immense amounts of space to the "claustrophobic" (really? I'm supposed to feel claustrophobic?! I had no idea. Silly me) "long and narrow" trailer. Of course, they ARE *mobile homes* or *trailers*, so we people who live in THEM are "white trash" and "losers", right?
Nope, we can't be people who've known how to live under our means decades before everyone else, who are just figuring it out.... More
I did not read anything about white trash in this article.
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