It is now becoming a trend that cargo ships, semi or train, are turned into homes. Fox Valley Company is one such involed with these prjoects. They turn these ships by changing them into commercial spaces and homes.
Andy Spoor of Mineral Point, Wisconsin explained, "You look at a shipping container from the outside and they look kind of big, and you go inside one, you don't really get a sense of scale because dimensionally it's straight walls and stuff like that, but you start throwing in windows and it kind of comes to life."
Together with his wife Jackie, they built their home out of the containers. The company also works as MOD International and is based in the said valley. Spoor's home is at 3,000 square feet and has three bedrooms and baths.
Andy Spoor states, "Design-wise, it's pretty similar to any house that we would have designed or built. They just chop out the walls, structurally they make everything work."
MODS are just legos and can be put together to make custom-made designs out of shipping containers. Josh Atencio will soon be working on a MODS home in Menasha, his own home town under MODS.
MODS are cost saving and only costs $100 per square foot, although it provides empty shipping containers on a second purpose.
Atencio said, "It's actually cheaper to do it this way, about two-thirds of the cost of a traditional stick-built house. And also, if you're into e-cycling and that kind of things, you're taking these shipping containers off the docks."
The concept of MODS is not new, particularly in Europe. Although homes like Josh Atencio and Spoors' locally stirs the anticipations for the concept to jumpstart.
Dong Laron, MODS International President confirms, "In the United States, they've not been that popular yet because no one understands them until we start building them. Now everyone really likes the idea, and we've been very successful with the build outs."
