Shipping Container Home Owners Speak Out: “What I Wish I’d Known Before Building My Shipping Container Home”

Shipping Container Home Owners Speak Out: “What I Wish I’d Known Before Building My Shipping Container Home”

We receive lots of emails from people asking us- how do I go about building my own shipping container home?

So to answer this question, here at containerhomeplans.org we’ve asked 23 shipping container home owners to reveal to us what you really need to know by asking this question:

“What’s the one thing you wish you’d known before you built your shipping container home?”

The responses are in and it’s time to learn the most important things you need to know before you build your shipping container home…

Why make the same mistakes twice?

Top 3 Most Important Things You Need to Know:

1. How to purchase the correct shipping containers (5 votes)
2. The importance of building regulations and planning: (5 votes)
3. Finding a contractor with previous experience: (4 votes)

1. PV14 House

Matt Mooney, a principal at Corgan based in Texas, decided for his next home he wanted to use shipping containers. More than 14 containers were used in total to build this goliath 3,700 square foot home.

It has three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and an outdoor swimming pool to name but a few of the features!

© Wade Griffith

Matt’s Response:

As far as what I wish I would have known…it is very hard to say since I have wanted to build one for almost 25 years…I have been thinking about and studying it for a long time.  We (thankfully) had very few surprises.  If I had to pick something, I would say that the actual process of buying & shipping One-Trip containers from Dolphin Containers in Shanghai was an interesting experience…and navigating the used container market here in the region before we decided to go with One-Trips. Other than that, I enjoyed every minute of the experience of building this thing.

Source: containerhomeplans.org