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8 eye-catching shipping container homes

8 eye-catching shipping container homes

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Photo: DeMaria Design
 
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alex 12/29/2010 04:32 AM

The first container to build houses in California were in the mid of 1980 in Portuguese bend south of Los Angeles. It was a 2,000 square foot triangular design, two stories with a clear open history section at the central plant above the lights of heaven. This house was built in an active slide area known as the Portuguese Bend. This design was very helpful because the owner can in a new basis, as necessary to level the structure of one of the three basis points. Structural materials .... More

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WhiteApple 11/12/2010 09:43 AM

Thanks for those mesmerizing photos! Homes are unforgettable. Beauty itself. For me, being an architect, your efforts have been extremely important. By the way, a lot of photos of even more beautiful and perfect houses were found by me and downloaded from shared files search http://filecraft.com That is breathtaking!

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peter lim 07/24/2010 23:39 PM

Very pretty and functionable......

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Frank 07/18/2010 10:17 AM

Now this model looks like something you could live in with kids, pets, and be able to have guests over. As "interesting" as some of the other designs are (one of which to me looks to be the equivalent of a 1960's trailer court design), this looks like something a family could live in as opposed to just an individual.

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Redondo Beach House

DeMaria Design, Manhattan Beach, Calif.
It seems that most multi-shipping container homes make use of only three or four containers. While not cramped by any means, these homes still fall on the petite side when it comes to square footage. The Redondo Beach House from prefab pioneer Peter DeMaria is made from eight shopping containers. This spacious pad (20-foot ceilings and an outdoor lap pool anyone?) in the laidback community of Redondo Beach has garnered a fair amount of mainstream press — including a spot on CNN — and won coveted architectural awards, making it the definitive shipping container trophy home.
 
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