Surprise! Did you know that shipping containers could have functions other than their original utility? Amazingly containers are now used to build houses and mind it, really magnificent ones. An industrial designer, Debbie Glassberg’s builds her home in Kansas City, Missouri and it is one house which is made of containers. A house worth seeing and definitely conversing about. Debbie’s fascination for designing is what got her hooked off accustomed architecture. She needed to sight something out of the ordinary.
That is where this house comes into vision.The beautiful container house she owns in Kansas City, a 2,600 square foot building made with five shipping containers, that have a rather extraordinary look to it. One can only imagine how distinctive it looks. Everyone knows shipping containers are really spacial. Other than that this home also has the usual lighting, warmth, it’s comfortable, and it has life to it. Just like any other home, this home has a kitchenette which is white with economical energy appliances as the life of this dwelling.
Debbie’s domicile is a warm and welcoming place. Anybody who enters would be greeted with a brightly illuminated atmosphere and would most definitely let out words of gleaming appreciation and ardor. The inside is filled with the brightest of colors one can imagine. Its more like Funky!! The ground floor is in a slightly baby blue, she has stunning dark pink room also on the same floor. The first floor rooms have the same designing as the bedrooms above. But colors above used are more like whites and mauves. She has a beautiful rooftop where she grows her esculent foods which when ready are reserved and foster in a slightly less visible larder which has white sliding doors. This place has everything from a comestible green roof, geothermal heating and has plant foam insulation and some docile solar.
This Kansas container house is a first in this neighborhood. Do you want a Debbie Glassberg-designed container house? If yes, then now’s your chance, because her new enterprise is Home Contained and might go large scale and the building cost is comparatively lower than average. So how about give it a try?
Via: Greenmuze
