Double-wide Hawaiian Affordable Housing Container Home Plans

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Double-wide Hawaiian Affordable Housing Container Home Plans

What you are looking at are the final plans of our double wide container home. It is two containers put side by side with the common walls completely cut out for a 16x40 interior space offering 640 sq ft under roof. Notice the spacious kitchen design and ventilating skylights. Even though it’s a metal home, its cooler than a wood home with our ceramic coating, ventilating skylights and liberal window areas. We have purposely not put a lanai onto this home because you can add that later any way you want after you basically “get a roof over your head” for the most reasonable cost possible, and that is our mission with this simple design. The obvious place to put a lanai on this home would be in front of the dining room area. You could also put up a retractable awning for even less. We can work with you to add a lanai or awning any way you want to. We offer his home turn-key at about $95 per sq ft depending on flooring, cabinet and other options desired, and are also available to do perhaps just the welding and cutting so you can finish off the home, or do whatever phase of the building you want to do to save money. You will also be able to buy our plans, containers and forthcoming instruction manual, or hire us as construction managers, or we can recommend a general contractor or assist you to whatever extent you desire. Many want us to do the foundational work, situate the containers, cut out windows and complete the metal work and then let you finish it from there using our instruction manual. You tell us how much help you need, which options you want etc and we can quote you the costs based on exactly what you want and what you want us to do for you. Again, turn-key is only about $95 per sq ft.

We are currently working on a two container home where the containers are separated by 12-18 feet and the metal cut out from the containers inside walls is used to weld across that 12-18 foot gap with a trussed roof over the entire home. This will give you a considerably larger home with 1120-1360 sq ft under roof for around $90 per sq ft turn-key, or much less if you wish to do some of the work yourself. Plans should be on this site sometime in October 2008.

With this 640 sq ft home, some folks are asking- “how do you get to bedroom 1 from the living area”? The answer is- when you only have a 16’ wide space, the best use of the space is to not put in a hallway so to make each bedroom larger. We have given you the maximum living space and bedroom size with this design at the expense of no hallway. As you can see, there are two small porches at each entrance. One option we can provide for those security conscious folks out there is metal shutters that completely cover each window and doorway, and lock for maximum security. The first bldg permit for this design, and also for our single container home were issued mid-april 2008. That was a significant moment for those wanting to build homes with shipping containers. The exciting thing is you can either build this home and add-on a similar 640 sq ft double-wide structure later in an L-shape with deck, or perhaps add-on two double-wide structures to make a C-shaped home with large deck in the center, sort of like what we have designed with our modular home, but with much more area and width than the modular home. You can also integrate single wide containers or whatever you have in mind. Basically, we have engineered a double-wide container structure, and that sets the stage for all kinds of home designs using double-wide shipping containers. This design here made with metal shutters covering all doorways and windows is the most secure home we have seen anywhere, and is perfect as a starter home built in Puna or oceanview areas where security is extremely important to most people. You can add a 20’ container for storage and laundry room with a roof connecting it to the home to make a covered garage or similar space. We can design whatever you want, and you will see more plans in the future on this website. Keep checking back. Call us to discuss the possibilities at 808-953-2005 or 808-935-1000 from the Big Island.

Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the information on this website. That will allow us to more effectively work with you on your home, workshop or office ideas in person, or on the phone. Thank you!

Affordable Portable Housing

Oahu headquarters- 2065 S. Beretania Street Suite 102 Hon, HI 96826 808-953-2005
Container modification facilities at Kalaeloa, Oahu yard. (Near Campbell Industrial Park.)
By appointment only.

Big Island- PO Box 488 Pa'auilo, HI 96776 808-935-1000

Direct sales to all Hawaiian islands and the Pacific Rim.