Turning a Shipping Container into a Tiny Home!

You’ve all seen the Pinterest ideas or the Tiny House Nation. They convert an ordinary shipping container into a liveable space—a tiny house.

It sounds simple, right? The TV shows and internet programs walk you through the process in a half-hour to an hour, and then you think to yourself, “That’s Simple,  I can do that, too.”

Well, 4 Walls Overnight – We’re more like reality TV meets blogging. Share our journey as we attempt our shipping container conversion.

Alternative Living Spaces

What was the defining moment when we said, “We want to live in a shipping container”! And what if you could live inside a shipping container while still enjoying all the comforts of home? That’s precisely what we did. Share our journey as we convert a shipping container into an inhabitable space.

• We’ll tell you what happens as we try to realize our dream.
• We’ll share the products we use, the challenges we face, the cost, and the time it really takes.

Why would you want to live in a shipping container?

Thanks to Google Photos, I can remember the exact moment when this idea took shape.

In 2016, we lived in one of the smallest apartments we had ever lived in all the years we were married. That apartment was approximately 300 sq. ft. We were fixing it up for our friend while living there rent-free.

We had to figure out how to fit all of our stuff into that tiny apartment. It was quite a challenge since we had previously been living in a 3/2 apartment. All of that simplifying and downsizing made us realize we could live in a smaller area than we thought. That’s when we concluded we could build our own custom tiny container house. We used one 35ft and one 40ft shipping container, adequate enough to make a home that fits our needs.

And the container DREAM house was born.