Reportedly, the entire project cost around $20,000. He outfitted the containers into one open floor plan, making a cozy 355-square-foot cabin in the woods on land his family already owned, about 35 miles west of the city.
The young entrepreneur snagged the containers for $3,400 CAD (about $2,600 USD) each at a port near Toronto and had them relocated to Ottawa. He pieced together three disused containers, which previously carried cargo from Asia to North America, to make a unique off-grid home that didn’t cost him a lot of money. By day, Dupuis is an engineer and renewable energy researcher, and he found himself wanting to escape the city for a simpler, quieter place to call home. That is, if you call a man who makes a home out of shipping containers an architect. We can’t help but fall in love with an off-the-grid recycled home built on the cheap, and this project by 29-year-old Joseph Dupuis is the latest target of our affection.ĭupuis is the architect of this peculiar home in the woods. We recently spotted a report on DailyMail about a small but comfy looking home in Ottawa, Canada composed of three shipping containers. We’ve posted about shipping container homes before, ranging from the positively enormous to the downright itty bitty. #Industry News A Canadian man built this off-grid shipping container home for just $20,000 Shipping container buildings are customizable, modular structures that can be built on small budgets.
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