High cost of traditional housing in Seattle piloted Julianna Carlson, a Delridge resident to build a shipping container home as her first home. Despite any previous architectural understanding, she sketched out her own two-story home and achieved the design with six shipping containers.
She used six 20-foot customized shipping containers from Chehalis-based Company DryBox – four in the bottom and two stacked on the top, and it took her about a year to finalize the interior layout.
All the shipping containers are left intact intentionally, which makes it the most unique home in her neighborhood. For interiors, she opted for a coastal chic theme. French doors lead inside the home with white walls and ceiling contrasting the wood style flooring. The nautical interior theme is broadened with the ferry-like handrail to the master bedroom upstairs.
The living area has a sofa and a tree stump coffee table that can be rolled in when needed. The kitchen has concrete countertops, a large sink, storage cabinets, and other required appliances. Upstairs is the master bedroom with a porthole window that gives a feeling of being in a ship’s hull. There’s a bathroom with shower and toilet on the first floor. In addition, a 1,000-square-foot patio is included on the upper level.
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Carlson cleverly designed the shipping home so that additional modules can be added in need of more living space later. She sees her two-story shipping container home as an affordable housing solution, which she completed by spending about 70-percent of what it would have cost her to buy a comparable traditional home.
Image: Alex Crook/Seattle Magazine
Image: Alex Crook/Seattle Magazine
Image: Alex Crook/Seattle Magazine
Via: SeattleMagazine
