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In order to live affordably and sustainably in an increasingly crowded world, people are looking for creative ways to build their homes—last week, we featured the “Tiny Project” where a designer built himself a micro-house on wheels.
Today, we would like to shine the spotlight on Brooklyn couple Michele Bertoman and David Boyle, who bought a 20x40 foot lot in Williamsburg and filled it with a unique house made with five shipping containers.
Although getting the necessary permits was time-consuming, the actual construction of the house took only a few hours—according to Boyle, “You went to work in the morning and there was no building. You came home for lunch and it was there.”
This multi-level house contains 1,600 square feet of living space, and also feature a roof terrace—each of the shipping container costs US$1,500 and the total cost of the structure came up to just US$50,000, not inclusive of the lot.
Watch the video below to find out how this creative couple managed to build their unconventional home in one of the densest cities in the world.
[via Weburbanist, Gothamist]
In order to live affordably and sustainably in an increasingly crowded world, people are looking for creative ways to build their homes—last week, we featured the “Tiny Project” where a designer built himself a micro-house on wheels.
Today, we would like to shine the spotlight on Brooklyn couple Michele Bertoman and David Boyle, who bought a 20x40 foot lot in Williamsburg and filled it with a unique house made with five shipping containers.
Although getting the necessary permits was time-consuming, the actual construction of the house took only a few hours—according to Boyle, “You went to work in the morning and there was no building. You came home for lunch and it was there.”
This multi-level house contains 1,600 square feet of living space, and also feature a roof terrace—each of the shipping container costs US$1,500 and the total cost of the structure came up to just US$50,000, not inclusive of the lot.
Watch the video below to find out how this creative couple managed to build their unconventional home in one of the densest cities in the world.
[via Weburbanist, Gothamist]