Posts Tagged ‘shipping containers’

From container to guesthouse

by Wally Northway Published: February 22,2013

Tags: Barton Container Homes, Bill Lilly, housing, LEED, shipping containers

Bill Lilly, LEED AP, describes them as “white-knuckle experiences.” The Oxford homebuilder and owner of Village Green Builders Inc. says he had a number of such moments while building the state’s first home from shipping containers. Shipping container, sweet shipping container (Related story) The worries began early, and were not always high-tech in nature. “The [...] [...]

Would you set up house in a shipping container?

by Wally Northway Published: February 22,2013

Tags: Barton Container Homes, Bill Lilly, housing, LEED, shipping containers

The story begins with a missed invoice and a passion for sustainable construction, takes a winding path through California and Georgia and ends in Oxford with arguably the most unique house in the State of Mississippi. See “How-to” video below “I’ve had a lot of interest and inquiries since, but the Barton home is the [...] [...]

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