Judging by the rate of new designs for shipping container houses, no one should be shocked if we don’t all end up living in one of them at some time in the future.

Here’s another with a catchy name. The WelcomeHome is three shipping containers combined into 800 square feet of living space, and at just $12,000 plus shipping costs the house is within the budget of many home buyers.

One thing that is especially attractive with a shipping container house like The WelcomeHome is that they can easily be adapted to urban infill or set down smack in the middle of your 10 acre parcel. Houses that can adapt to a wide range of needs are likely to be in great demand, and shipping containers fit perfectly with that future need.

The WelcomeHome also meets future energy goals as it is designed to work off-grid utilizing wind, solar, and passive air circulation. A green roof ads to its sustainability, not to mention soften the somewhat industrial feel of living in a shipping container. Read post in GLiving.