There are a lot of people who try to avoid life in debt, not to mention the mortgage in Kabalu. There were no exception and spouse from Vancouver, which one finely was tired of living only with the work and repayment of loans. They decided to build a small house of 2 metal containers, which would help forget about eternal debts. Although the new life did not cost without the intervention of fatal events, it was the construction that became the reason for the early recovery of the spouse and get rid of the mortgage.
The eternal problems of a person in the gain of the roof above the head and creating comfortable asylum always pushed on various experiments, especially if the house was not inherited, and the money is completely cut. Not became an exception and spouse Jamie and Dave Hincle from Vancouver (Washington state), who all their joint life worked hard to reconstruct the old house, and then give loans.
For many years, spouses had no opportunity to go on vacation or just relax, all the means went on the maintenance of the house and repaying debts. When Jamie and Dave is tired of it, they decided to radically change their lives. To begin with, they sold the house to start building a small dwelling of two containers, because the big living space was not needed. Three children have already grown and become independent, so the need for a huge cottage disappeared.
Jamie and Dave decided to change the big city at the Kalama suburb (Kalama), located in Washington. There they acquired a little more than 2 hectares of the Earth and decided to make them up. To begin with, they received the local authorities for the construction and connection of the necessary communications, then acquired 2 sea containers at a rush price, one 20-foot and the other - 40-foot.
Help from the editorial office novate.ru: Sea dry cargo containers are taken in feet. The 20-foot container has standard dimensions and parameters (external): length - 6.058 m, width - 2.438 m, height - 2.591 m. Sea 40-foot container has the following external dimensions: length - 12.192 m, width - 2,438 m, height - 2.591 m. The dimensions of the internal space are on average less than 10 cm.
Spouses Hincle first installed a 40-foot container, and the one that is smaller. Thus, they tried to organize the optimal layout, so that the internal space is used is more rational, and with the benefit to use the remaining part of the roof of a large container.
Enthusiasts spent evenings and weekends, working without donating hands over the arrangement of their home. In the midst of the construction of their dreams about free from debts, there were practically destroyed when Dave had hemorrhage to the brain. Only 5 days in resuscitation man did not think about construction.
All remaining time in the hospital, he was dreaming about the continuation of the transformation. Jamie remembers: "Dave lay in the hospital and could hardly speak, but still repeated how the prayer that he could not die and need to complete the house." Fortunately, he turned out to be a very strong man and with the help of Jamie, who constantly supported him, was able to recover from this severe ailment. When his condition stabilized, the spouses went to their new refuge and the arrangement of the container house was the basis of his rehabilitation program developed by the ergotherapist.
Gradually, the functions of his body were restored, and he was able to work with his right hand (injured during a stroke) and even use a rather difficult tool in such a situation - a pneumatic hammer. At the end of the finishing work it turned out that 85% of the sensitivity of the right side of the body returned to Jami. The spouses are confident that it was the construction that returned a man to life and even became the main reason for his recovery.
And we had to rejoice not only to restore health, but also the house created by your own hands. Now the spouses can forget about debts and enjoy their own achievements, because their house, although it has an area of only 38 square meters. m, but it has everything you need for comfortable living in a small family.
On the first floor, enthusiasts managed to organize a living room with a massive leather sofa by the fireplace. Next to it is a kitchen with a furniture head, a full-size refrigerator, a gas stove with a brass cabinet, washing, a marble tabletop of huge sizes and even a dishwasher.
On the way to a comfortable bathroom there was a place for a mini-laundry, including a washing machine and a dryer. Also on the first floor there is a multifunctional room in which there is a zone of pantry, a dressing room and a lot.
To connect the first and second floors, a metal screw staircase was installed. On the second floor there is a bedroom of spouses, in which there is a large bed, a pair of bedside tables, a small recreation area and reading with a chair and a puff for legs.
The main advantage of this room is that it is not only an excellent look from the windows, but also has access to a large balcony. It has a recreation area where you can drink a cup of tea or a glass of wine for discussing urgent problems.
According to the authors of Novate.ru, the plot in the suburbs of Kalam spouses cost 65 thousand dollars, but about 70 thousand dollars were spent on the arrangement of the house. (Only the cost of materials and necessary tools) is much more expensive than the construction of an ordinary home of the same size. Hinky did not expect that it would succeed, because the lion's share of the costs "absorbed" the heat and waterproofing, which is extremely necessary for this kind of dwelling.
But they don't regret anything, because in just 10 months (despite Dave's disease) managed to get rid of debts and turn their dream into reality. Now they live in an environmentally friendly area among the pristine nature, and even gradually add new objects. For 5 years of life, in its container house, Dave built another part of the terrace, a greenhouse, a workshop, a chicken coop, an outdoor staircase, leading to the balcony, and even made a suspended bridge, which dreamed of all his life.
The suspension bridge, created in just a month from the recycling, passes above the ground almost at a three-meter height and has a length of 15 m. It connects the balcony of a container house with an indoor terrace, which offers a delightful view of the valley where steam lives. The bridge also reduces the path to the workshop of Dave.
As spouses are recognized, they think about the construction of a new house, because the current stairs and steep steps are still overcome, but so, unfortunately, it will not always be.