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Studio from one 20ft container
- 1 × 20ft
- 159 ft² · 15 m²
- 1 floor
A single box for a guest house, backyard office or weekend cabin: kitchen, shower room and bed along the walls, plus a deck as big as the house.
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Shipping container home floor plans
Twelve free layouts, from a single 20ft studio to a two-storey family home. Every plan is a real 3D model: open it in the configurator, add partitions and furniture, move windows, change the finishes and get the estimate and drawings.
One-bedroom home from a 40ft High Cube
- 1 × 40ft HC
- 320 ft² · 30 m²
- 1 floor
The most popular starter home: 30 m² under a gable roof with the kitchen, bathroom and bed on one service wall and windows on both long sides.
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Two 20ft High Cubes side by side
- 2 × 20ft HC
- 318 ft² · 30 m²
- 1 floor
Two short boxes joined along the long wall give an almost square room about 4.7 m wide — easier to deliver than 40ft units.
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Open-plan home from two 40ft containers
- 2 × 40ft HC
- 640 ft² · 59 m²
- 1 floor
Two 40ft boxes side by side with the shared wall opened up: a 54 m² open space ready to split into bedrooms with partitions, and a deck.
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Long house: two 40ft end to end
- 2 × 40ft HC
- 640 ft² · 59 m²
- 1 floor
A narrow 24 m house for a long plot or a view: rooms in a row, every room gets windows on both sides.
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L-shaped home from three containers
- 3 × 40ft HC
- 960 ft² · 89 m²
- 1 floor
Two wings at right angles around a sheltered deck: the long wing for kitchen and living, the cross wing for bedrooms away from the noise.
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U-shaped home around a patio
- 3 × 40ft HC
- 960 ft² · 89 m²
- 1 floor
One long container with two cross wings: the patio in the middle is shaded and out of the wind.
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Courtyard house from four 40ft containers
- 4 × 40ft HC
- 1280 ft² · 119 m²
- 1 floor
Two wings facing each other across a covered courtyard — day zone on one side, bedrooms on the other.
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Two-storey home from five 20ft High Cubes
- 5 × 20ft HC
- 795 ft² · 74 m²
- 2 floors
Living space downstairs, a separate upper floor for bedrooms, an internal staircase and a roof terrace over the single-storey part.
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Two-storey family home from four 40ft
- 4 × 40ft HC
- 1280 ft² · 119 m²
- 2 floors
Two containers on each floor: open living space downstairs, a 50 m² upper floor for bedrooms, flat roof.
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Two-storey home with a hip roof
- 1 × 40ft HC + 4 × 20ft HC
- 956 ft² · 89 m²
- 2 floors
Five containers, the upper floor under a hip roof and two decks — a container house that looks like a regular home.
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Industrial look: exposed container steel
- 1 × 40ft HC + 3 × 20ft HC
- 797 ft² · 74 m²
- 2 floors
Corrugated steel left visible, an outdoor staircase and a roof terrace — the classic container-home style.
Open in 3D and edit →How to choose a container home layout
- Width first. Every container is 8 ft (2.44 m) wide outside and about 2.1 m inside after insulation. For a living room wider than that, join two boxes along the long wall — see container dimensions.
- High Cube for living. High Cube containers are 1 ft taller and keep a ceiling of about 2.4 m after insulation.
- Keep wet rooms together. A kitchen next to the bathroom means shorter pipes and one service wall.
- Cut openings wisely. Large openings in the long walls need steel framing; plans with joined boxes reuse the cut-outs as passages.
- Count the cost. Each extra container adds floor area cheaply; try the cost calculator for any of these layouts.
More ideas: container home layouts, two-storey container homes, 20ft vs 40ft.
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