It's starting to look like a house! The 8ft wide porch extends around 3 sides.

Now it's really getting fun!

The wiring is complete.

Next came the windows and front door. As you can see, my nephew had started the roof stucture.

And then it was my turn....

I decided to stud out the interior walls. I wanted this house to look very traditional, so that no one would ever know it started out as shipping containers. Of course studding the walls takes some of your floor space, but I wanted sheetrock on the walls, and this seemed the best way to accomplish that.

Getting started was pretty scary!

The first step was removing interior walls. My goal was one large open space for the living room, dining room, and kitchen, with walls only for the bedrooms and bath. Removal of sections of wall required hiring a welder with a cutting torch.

I once had a crazy idea

To build a house out of four 40 ft high cube steel shipping containers. So here's how I laid them out, side by side. A little welding, and the 4 were joined into one 40x32 ft unit.