Our one-container model spec home, begun October 2019
We started building this basic one-container model spec home at the end of October 2019. It is our second build. The first was a luxury four-container residence.
We hope to have it installed on one of our 1.25-acre (5,000 sq m) Playa Hermosa ocean-view lots by mid-April 2020 for viewings and sale. Right now you can see it at our partner’s workshop in Escazú on the outskirts of San José.Click here for a fabulous drone video of the lots. The brown areas are the building pads.
The shipping container home is being built in San José by Mueble America, a Costa Rican company founded in 1971.
Mueble America has already built four portable emergency hurricane-proof banks for Scotiabank for use in the hurricane-plagued Caribbean (see photos below), and a four-container efficiency apartment complex in San José.
This streamlined one-container home has everything: bedroom, bathroom with shower, full kitchen, ample living space, and a room for a washer and dryer.
It can easily be converted to eco-friendly off-grid living with the installation of solar panels, storage batteries and a water collection system.
This basic shipping container home can be customized to the buyer’s preferences. With imagination, anything is possible.
