{"id":515443,"date":"2022-11-24T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-a-b-c-couple-turned-a-shipping-container-into-their-dream-home\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:19:34","slug":"how-a-b-c-couple-turned-a-shipping-container-into-their-dream-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-a-b-c-couple-turned-a-shipping-container-into-their-dream-home\/","title":{"rendered":"#How a B.C. couple turned a shipping container into their dream home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a5996a570\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a5996a570\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-a-b-c-couple-turned-a-shipping-container-into-their-dream-home\/#%E2%80%9CHow_a_BC_couple_turned_a_shipping_container_into_their_dream_home%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How a B.C. couple turned a shipping container into their dream home&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_a_BC_couple_turned_a_shipping_container_into_their_dream_home%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How a B.C. couple turned a shipping container into their dream home&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            \u201cYou don\u2019t get that cramped-in feeling. I step out of my house, walk 100 feet, and I\u2019m climbing a mountain.\u201d\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2016, Cathi Marshall <\/span>and her husband, Trevor, saw a squat, compact shipping container in the parking lot of a Kelowna shopping mall, where it was set up as a model home. Cathi, a singer-songwriter, and Trevor, a machine operator, are both mid-century-modern architecture buffs and huge fans of Frank Lloyd Wright. They adored the modern and minimal shipping-container home, manufactured by Edmonton-based Honomobo. \u201cI loved the sleek, simple design,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s just a rectangle with huge windows.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">At the time, the couple were recent empty-nesters looking to downsize from their 2,400-square-foot home in Kamloops\u2019s Batchelor Heights neighbourhood. The house, with its three bathrooms and five bedrooms, seemed like a waste of space for just the two of them. Meanwhile, Cathi had inherited a small piece of rural land in Kamloops from her father when he died in 2015, right next to the house where her mother lived and one lot over from her brother. She decided the shipping-container house, with its giant windows, would bring her closer to family and provide amazing views of the South Thompson River.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241881\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241881 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shipping-container-portable-homes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant windows wrap around the home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Marshalls bought a shipping-container home from Honomobo in 2017. Downsizing from the Kelowna house was easy. \u201cIt felt rather cathartic,\u201d says Cathi. Her sons had taken most of the family sports equipment, as well as the living room furniture, when they moved out. Clothing, shoes and the rest of the furniture went to Goodwill.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Before their new home arrived, the only prep work the Marshalls needed to do was to pour 1250 square feet of concrete to build a raft slab foundation for the containers to rest on. Less than four months after the purchase was finalized, four trucks carrying shipping containers rolled up to the property. \u201cThe trucks showed up at 10 a.m., and by 5 p.m., the house was assembled,\u201d Cathi says.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Over the next seven days, two employees from Honomobo added a second coat of paint and finished the drywall and flooring on the seams. Around a week later, the house was move-in ready. \u201cOne thing I enjoyed about the process of building a container home is that you have limited options,\u201d she says. \u201cIt eliminated a lot of unnecessary anxiety.\u201d The final product\u2014which Cathi affectionately calls her \u201cblack box\u201d\u2014is reminiscent of the retro-yet-futuristic homes she adores in Palm Springs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241879\" style=\"width: 1674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241879 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shipping-container-home-wide-angle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1664\" height=\"1086\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">With both sons out of the house, the Marshalls were looking for a change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">The house is divided into two sections, joined by a breezeway in the middle. The Marshalls live in the main Honomobo shipping container; on the other side of the breezeway, they built a 396-square-foot wood-frame studio garage, which functions as a separate apartment and is available to rent on Airbnb. The electricity for the home is standard wiring, but the water comes from a 1,000-gallon cistern, located in a water shed 76 metres uphill. The house relies on passive solar energy for most of its heating needs. The winter months are usually chilly unless the sun shines directly on their home, but the black box heats up in the summer, requiring a higher-than-average level of air conditioning.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">While the entire home is only 704 square feet, its expansive windows offer panoramic views of the river and the Shuswap Highland. \u201cYou don\u2019t get that cramped-in feeling,\u201d Cathi says. \u201cI step out of my house, walk 100 feet, and I\u2019m climbing a mountain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241880\" style=\"width: 1450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1241880 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shipping-container-home.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathi spends time with her family outdoors, hiking mountains and exploring the terrain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">The region has a desert-like quality, and tangled sagebrush plants dot the landscape. When Cathi previously lived in the area with her parents, she didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciate the howls of coyotes at night or the rattlesnakes. Now she loves the local wildlife. Bighorn sheep, deer and even bears often wander onto the property.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Even better than the proximity to nature is that of Cathi\u2019s family. The Marshalls and Cathi\u2019s mother and brother go on outdoorsy adventures together, including canoeing in the river, swimming out to the sandbar or hiking in the mountains. During non-wildfire months, they light up their outdoor wood oven and dine on homemade margherita pizza with a glass of wine made by Sagewood Winery, their next-door neighbours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241882\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1241882 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shipping-container-home-bc-creative.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph of Marshall by Emily-May Olson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>This article appears in print in the December 2022 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s <em>magazine. 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