Category: Blog
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Downsizing or upsizing
When building tiny, downsizing is a key element of making things work. Planning requires many compromises and even omitting features of a typical house are necessary. It’s like trying to pack two sleeping bags in a bag that is already too small for one sleeping bag to begin with. For most of us downsizing doesn’t…
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How modular is a Tiny House Container?
A Tiny House Container is packed with many incredible modular features. From changing the location of an electric outlet to adding an extra window, making a modification is simple in a Tiny House Container. We call the modular-challenge the Salt & Pepper paradox. No matter how big your kitchen is and how well your kitchen…
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What is the best setup for a tiny house shipping container: On a trailer or on a foundation?
Whether a shipping container is used on a trailer or setup on a foundation makes no difference. A major advantage of a shipping container is that you can quickly adapt to a new situation by taking it off a trailer or putting it back on a trailer. You might have found the perfect location for…
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The Tiny House Container Team
Our great interest in combining mobile living and outdoors together lead my Dad and I to the challenge of building a Tiny House Container. Our family owned business has been building Tiny House Containers since 2015. We build fully functional, off-grid shipping container homes that are practical to use, simple to move and maintain, and…
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What is the benefit of using a 20ft shipping container as a tiny house?
While searching for a compact solution to build an off-grid tiny house we quickly settled on a 20ft shipping container. A 20ft shipping container is the only super-strong structure offering essentially unlimited mobility. Exactly what we were looking for. Shipping containers are specifically designed to with-stand decades of relentless travel by land and sea. They…