Did you ever read that book, The Boxcar Children growing up and secretly wish you were them... But only for a minute though, because you still liked your soft warm bed, parents and the joys of a labor-free childhood? For those of you scratching your heads about what I'm referring to, the books, The Boxcar Children were a series of "young adult" books (aka: chapter books) about a family of orphaned, homeless children, Henry, Jesse, Violet and Benny and their dog, Watch, who found an abandoned train car in the woods where they set up house, scavenged for food and work, cooked, and cared for themselves and each other... Sounds appealing, right? :)
Look familiar?
Well, now all of the boxcar wannabes that like their little luxuries, can have their cake and eat it too because boxcar (read: shipping storage container) homes are all the new rage. ANNNND, they're cheap to boot. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a win-win.
These economical abodes are upping the ante on the home front in all facets. Their creators are getting creative with the outside, inside and everything in between... and more importantly, they're causing my boxcar dweller envy to creep back up from the archives of my brain where I "stored" it a long, long time ago.
So without further ado, let's peep at some of these innovative endeavors:
I don't know about you, but I feel like renting a P.O.D., showing up with it on the front yard of some of these homes and settling in. Guest houses always increase real estate value, right? ;)
But seriously, wow.
