8 eye-catching shipping container homes
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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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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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Very pretty and functionable......
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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