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With the vast amount of information you can find online regarding shipping container homes, you need not worry about where to get learning resources or ideas for each step of the planning and construction. In addition, you will find plenty of sample floor plans on the Web that can inspire your own final designs for your shipping container home.
These sample floor plans can be especially helpful if you do not have much experience with layouts or architectural drawings but have some ideas on how you would like the project to turn out. If you are going with a professional architect or engineer for the design, you can refer to a sample floor plan and let the professional know you are interested in something similar. They can then let you know if that is feasible for your situation.
A word of caution though: there is a difference between a home design and an actual plan! You can find all kinds of home designs online for free, but they cannot be used to actually build your shipping container home. Often, architects simply use these free designs as click-bait to get you to either purchase a template floor plan or hire them to design a custom plan for you.
According to the container homes association ISBU – short for: Intermodal Steel Building Units and Container Homes – you can expect to pay approximately $1000 for a blueprint, $1800 for a PDF File and even $3500 for a CAD file. And those are prices for templates. Custom plans will be more expensive. So you can understand why that click-bait could be worthwhile...
Don’t just print a random free design or plan that you found online and use that to build your shipping container home! You will regret it later.
With that said, here a few sample shipping container home floor plans and designs that can be found online:
● One bedroom, one bath, with a lounging deck: bit.ly/sampleplan1
● Two bedroom, one bath:bit.ly/sampleplan2
● Three bedroom, two bath: bit.ly/sampleplan3
● Three bedroom, two bath: bit.ly/sampleplan4
● 15 different plans on a single page: bit.ly/sampleplan5
Use them for inspiration only, and then either purchase a template or ask an architect to create a plan based on your instructions.
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