Shipping Container Homes: Amazing Ideas on How to Declutter, Organize and Decorate Your Small Living Space!: Live Mortgage Free

By Sarah Benson

So you want to downsize?  Building and living in your own shipping container or other type of small home can be fraught with challenges and pitfalls for the unwary.  Small homes have so many advantages to recommend them but it is easy to be put off by the potential problems living in a smaller space can generate.

Luckily help is at hand and this book will guide you through everything you need to know to turn your small space into a stylish, comfortable home.

Inside You Will Learn:

·         Why you should consider building your own home;

·         The benefits of living in a smaller space;

·         How a smaller home can give you financial security for life;

·         How to decorate your home to maximize the illusion of space;

·         Storage tricks for the smaller home;

·         How to organize your life to fit in a smaller space;

·         How to declutter like a pro;

·         And Much More

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Feb 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386300168

Book preview

Introduction

Why live small?  Over the past decades the trend in living is to build bigger and better houses all the time.  When we become independent for the first time we live in a smaller home but as we become more successful at work we start to covet things, symbols of our success.  One of those symbols is often the home that we store our other stuff in. 

For many people the large aspirational home is the ultimate symbol of the American dream, success writ large for everyone to see.  Do you really need it?  Do you need the kitchen, diner and a separate utility and formal dining room?  Do you need the family den and the formal living room and that guest bedroom that is used by Aunt Edna once a year?  How much value do all these spaces add to your life?

When you really start to question whether you need the space a whole host of other considerations come into play.  That spare bedroom costs a lot of money to heat even when it is not in use, you have to spend extra time to clean it and just think of how much money that room cost you to buy and how many years it added to your homeowner loan!

Living small makes sense.  It allows you to save money both on purchase and maintenance as well as furnishing and cleaning costs.  Living small makes you disciplined, you can’t buy things you don’t need if you have nowhere to hide them away and living small is good for your carbon footprint and for the environment.

With all these benefits the real question is why would you not live small?

Many people have asked themselves this exact same question and decided to take the plunge.  Whether they are touring the country in an RV or saving building costs by fashioning their small but perfect home out of shipping containers