Price $30000
The Helm
Brand: Affordable Housing
Category: Container house
SKU: 8
The Helm
Introducing “The Helm,” a unique two-story container home combining a forty-foot lower level with a twenty-foot upper container. The ground floor features a bedroom, modern kitchen, and spacious living area with quartz countertops and ample storage. Upstairs, a luxurious master suite includes a full bathroom and opens onto a private deck. With elegant wood paneling and optional rustic trim, it’s a stylish and inviting space for those wanting more room.
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One of the big advantages of using shipping containers for housing is that they are modular, and manufactured in a way that makes them easy to stack up. Our home makes good use of that modularity and stackability in the Helm, a two-story container home that is actually made of a 20-foot shipping container placed on top of a 40-footer, creating a convenient rooftop.
Clad with durable cedar siding that's been spaced out a bit, in order to reveal the surface of the original container, the existing metal doors on the ends have been replaced with full-height glass doors instead to let in more light.
Due to the constraints of the container, the interior layout on the ground floor is long and narrow, but it manages to fit in a sitting area on one end, a kitchen, dining area and bathroom in the middle, and a bedroom on the far side. The home is insulated and the inside walls covered with pine shiplap, and trimmed in reclaimed barn wood.
The second storey is accessed via an exterior spiral staircase, which obviously saves some interior space for other uses, but seems a little awkward to be practical on a daily basis (but looking at the company's floor plans, it is possible to get the Helm built with an interior staircase instead).
The top floor includes a nicely done terrace that features a custom-made cable railing system, illuminated with LED lights. Beyond that is the second bedroom and its bathroom. The bedroom doors open directly onto the terrace, expanding the interior space to the great outdoors.
Stacking shipping containers up to create more living space is a good alternative to placing them side by side and cutting structurally-compromising holes in them.