Luxurious Shipping Container Home Sells for $430K

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ROYAL OAK, MI – The developer of a homes made of seven shipping containers says “the response has been crazy” to the real estate up-cycling project in Royal Oak.

Drake Boroja, one of the partners in ModEco Development, told The Detroit News that five 40-foot containers and two 20-foot containers were used to build the company’s first house.

There’s still some work to be done on the three-bedroom, 2.5 bath home with an attached garage,but it’s already been sold for $430,000.

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“When we did this design, we wanted to see everything that was possible with shipping containers,” Boroja told the newspaper, adding that he and his partners — his brother, Dan Boroja, and Neal Patel — “want to be able to let our customer see what is possible.”

Think vaulted ceilings, a staircase built into a shipping container turned on its end, a big kitchen, two second-floor balconies and brick siding. The large master bath is equipped with a Jacuzzi tub.

Container housing is no longer just an adaptation by “resourceful squatters” seeking shelter from the elements. Rather, containers are “building blocks” in everything from luxury residences to movable cafes to skyscrapers, Popular Mechanics said.

“Shipping containers can be readily modified with a range of creature comforts, and can be connected and stacked to create modular, efficient spaces for a fraction of the cost, labor and resources of more conventional materials,” the magazine said.

Boroja and his partners are currently working on four other projects using decommissioned shipping containers — see some of them here — which are relatively easy to obtain because they’re used once and never returned.

They’re also waterproof and rustproof because they’re treated with a special coating to withstand the salt of ocean travel.

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