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Mobile Dwelling Unit 00001 Expands When You Live in It

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Here’s one of the more stylish and brilliant shipping container homes I’ve seen. Not only is it fashionably frugal – since shipping containers sell for a song, but this one is as cheerful as a bright red metal lunchbox.

The brilliant part? This 40 foot shipping container, which would normally be a very cramped 8 foot wide; travels as a crunched in unit, but…

…once it is in place you would just slide out the compartments to make a spacious and gracious shipping container home.

Each of the slide-out elements is outfitted as the familiar spaces we are used to : the kitchen; a bathroom with a sink, shower and toilet, a sleeping compartment, a” living room” unit (comprising a sofa mainly), and a reading nook and a closet. The result is pleasant and cheerful (all that wood and the reiterated red helps!)

Mobile Dwelling Unit 00001 is a brilliantly designed concept. A shipping container home designed to travel sleek and narrow – yet be capable of expanding outwards when stationary – to more normal livability standards.

And you have to love the ambitious name stenciled on the top. We should be churning these out!

Source: Doornob