Shipping Container Conversion Puts Granny Flat in Every Home
As Australians age, it seems that they all start to look for homes that can accommodate their elderly parents or relatives. It's a small home out back that can comfortably house just one or two people without many amenities. This is commonly referred to as the "granny flat". It's a good thing that more Australians are concerned with providing and caring for the elderly. However, it's not always a simple process to find a home that already has the granny flat out the back. Neither is it simple for a new construction to be done. This is where shipping containers conversions are starting to gain ground.
A shipping container provides many solutions for the problems facing those interested in the granny flat. Here are the main solutions that the container provides.
Price Points
The price of a new home to be built in the backyard is astonishing considering how simple it is. The cost of installing a modified container instead provides ample reason to consider the possibilities. The shipping container doesn't require much conversion to be a fully functional home, and the cost is minimal, and just a fraction of what a standard home would attract.
Shipping Container Conversion Construction
The outlay of time and energy to build a new home is astronomical. This is especially true for young couples and families with a desire to build it themselves. It should be said that a shipping container conversion requires much less time and is definitively less intrusive on normal life at home. Nearly the entire conversion into a liveable home can be done offsite so as not to disturb the premises until it's time for the final move. The shipping container home can be craned into place and plumbed and wired in within a couple days.
Small Home for Lease
The shipping container home, which provides its occupants with enough room for living without excessive amounts of space can also be leased out to students, temporary guests and even used as a holiday home on websites. The opportunity for a family to make a decent side income by leasing out the granny flat out the back is compounded with the appeal a shipping container home has on that demographic.
When looking at other holiday homes, a suburban home in a decent neighbourhood with good access to transportation could easily earn an extra few thousand dollars over the year. So, even if the home isn't being used by family, it still makes a nice side income for the main homeowner.
Shipping container conversions provide that important link between wanting to care for the elderly relatives and the costs in doing so. It's a trend that Australia would do well to embrace, learning from its Eastern neighbours. The barriers have been removed and the shipping container granny flat is sure to be a more common sight on the real estate markets as well as the neighbourhood.