1. Cargo Container Homes All you need is around $2000 to begin building one of these epic homes – made from recycled shipping containers! Check out some of these amazing creations! Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com/a- shipping-container-costs-about-2000-what-these- 15-people-did-with-that-is-beyond-epic/http://www.trueactivist.com/a- shipping-container-costs-about-2000-what-these- 15-people-did-with-that-is-beyond-epic/

2. A luxury home doesn’t always necessarily mean thousands of square footage, towering great rooms and gilded toilets. Take these homes for example: to begin building one of these epic houses, all you need is $2,000. That $2,000 will buy you a shipping container. What you do with that shipping container… well, that’s completely up to you. Some creative people have found a way to transform this rudimentary “room” with metal siding into luxury housing that blows us away.

3. A shipping container doesn’t have to be a closed space.

5. The best part about this one is that you know they made it out of shipping containers / /

6. Finish Look

7. This is the kind of home that keeps a person happy

8. They are also designed to resist harsh environments.

9. Steel shipping container homes, also called storage container homes, offer a fast, green, and sustainable approach to building.

11. This collection of containers is just epic.

12. Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Huston- Tillotson University in Texas has transformed a dumpster into a home and plans to live in it for a full year, so that he can learn as much as he can about sustainable living.

13. The experiment is called the Dumpster Project and its main aim is a hands-on study of how much space a person actually needs to live. The inside of the dumpster

14. The project is planned to be off-the-grid using solar orientation, passive cooling, green roofs, pellet stove heating and photovoltaic's to create electricity.