2 Popular Shipping Container Homes Manuscripts in 1 Book: Shipping Container Homes: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Living in a Shipping Container Home and Tiny House Living Including Ideas and Examples of Designs Shipping Container Homes: The Step-By-Step Guide to Shipping Container Homes and Tiny house living, Including Examples of Plans and Designs Manuscript 1: The Ultimate Guide to Shipping Container Homes Out of all the possible building materials available for homes, the last thing you might expect to hear about is shipping containers - yes, the same steel, rectangular containers seen on trucks and ships going across the world to deliver goods. While it might seem like a new trend, the truth is, shipping containers have been used for nearly two decades and have transformed into various multi-purpose living and working spaces. What are some of the reasons why the best-selling author Matt Brown among so many others advocate the use of this type of structure for a home? Well, open this book now to find out, and you will be amazed at all the opportunities! Here are just some of the questions and topics that are covered within the first part of the book: Shipping Container Homes: Pros and Cons What about Costs? New or Used? Living in Tiny Spaces Buying a Used Shipping Container How to Inspect your Container Home Permits and Building Codes Finding an Experienced Contractor Your Conversion Basics Insuring your Tiny Space Avoiding Mistakes Ideas and Examples of Designs And much more! Manuscript 2: Discover How Shipping Containers Can Become Homes The trend to make shipping containers into fantastic homes has been a concept that's been used for almost two decades now. They are a convenient design concept that works well with the tiny home movement. The idea of minimizing and having pre-made deliverable homes that fit easily onto the back of a standard truck has a lot of appeals. There's a lot of flexibility when it comes to designing one of these homes, whether you are going for the tiny home or a unique modern design concept. This book is not a positive mumbo jumbo letter that is here to sell you on the idea of shipping container homes. Instead, this book expects that you are an adult who can make your own decisions as long as you are given the correct facts. Therefore, this second part of the book will start out by giving you the good and the bad of shipping container homes so you can be aware of the potential challenges that can arise when building with