Houses from containers are popular around the world. In Russia, they have long been called cabins and sold as mini-offices for construction facilities and as cheap country houses for those who use their plot as a garden. But what is it especially in containers and whether you should personally buy them in order to build housing out of them?
In Europe, in the USA, and in Russia, houses from transport containers began to make (at least partially) from desire to quickly and at an affordable price to get housing. In the end, such houses came into fashion — in the West, everyone lit up with the idea of making containers on their own and thus build beautiful cheap little houses (and those who have money, build original large houses), and in our country people simply have people in our country I liked the idea of cheap «boxes» for garden plots.
With the growth of the popularity of container houses, their variations began to appear. In Russia, as a rule, country houses that are built by the type of households differ only in functional details, while Western companies also offer different design options. In addition, Western designers try to develop container housing as a modular one, that is, to one container, then you can attach another and thereby quickly and effectively expand the living space.
In Russia, containers are usually used as containers, and households are built separately for commercial purposes or for summer residents. Over the border, the old used containers (usually sea) are bought and they are already being built at home.
Another difference between container houses in Russia and abroad: our everyday life is still similar to metal boxes (even if they are made of wood), while Western container houses sometimes look so that it is impossible to say with confidence that they are made on the basis of transport a container in which the goods were once transported.
Anyone in Russia is able to do the same thing with the cabinet that they do with containers abroad — to make the walls beautifully, put in order the interior and exterior and arrange in their own style. Moreover, most foreign container houses that you see on the pictures on the network are the result of the work of the homeowners themselves who buy old transport containers and repair them on their own.
Many companies are of particular popularity because they specialize in stylish houses created completely on the basis of transport containers. But not all houses of such companies are cheap that it is contrary to the main advantage of such buildings. At the same time, they are bought anyway, but for other reasons — this is fashionable and houses of this type are considered stable. Contributing houses made to order most often cost as much as an average wooden house. But they satisfy other needs — mainly the needs of people who adhere to a green lifestyle.
Do you need a house from a container?
Decide for yourself. You can buy a change house and be content with it, or buy a couple of containers and turn them into a house on your own, similar to what you see in the photo.
From the basic advantages of container houses: price, mobility, ease of installation.
