Camper to Container Home

 Hey everyone! So, I decided to post one or two update pictures of our foyer. Fall is here and that means we move the wood rack into the house. My son welded up a new one, since the one we got at the (unnamed) farm store only lasted 2 seasons.  I also added a lamp, and it warms up the entryway so nicely.  We found our wood stove in northern Arkansas. From what we can figure out, it was cast in the 1930s. It is not airtight, so the temperature fluctuates quite a bit.  When you walk through the foyer into the great room, the wood stove is on your right.  The dining room is beyond it and the living room area is to your left. I have my grandma's china hutch, along with the dishes we used many years around the Sunday lunch table. I have added my own china as well. Behind the dining table is our bar. I love how it opens up the kitchen area, and makes a nice place for company to sit while I'm finishing up dinner! We have had our dining table since we had a house fire j...

Hey there! I know it's been forever! I have so much to share! We have gotten so much done, and I'm so ready to burn my paint brushes! Haha, not really, because I have lots of other projects that I can't wait to get done once I'm finished with our house.  I am going to do a series of posts detailing different rooms with maybe some "before" pictures to remind me how thankful I am of where we've come from! (I didn't do any this time, but I plan to in the future.) I used to be very much a grey walls/stark white trim person. And I still like those colors, but for this house I have gravitated toward the warmer creams and ivory for my walls, along with medium grey for my trim. This color scheme is very rich, cozy and lends itself to my rustic French country (sortof) decorating style that also has a bit of industrial to go along.  Here are our large, beautiful, double front doors. I went with cream for the trim as well, because the exterior trim is the same co...

Hey everyone, I want to show you guys some of the framing we have done on the interior and how it came together with some pictures before and after. I'm back tracking a bit because I already shared the concrete with you. For a long time after we cut the holes in the floors and ceilings of the containers we had (a couple of rickety extension) ladders connecting the floors!  Then we got the stairs framed in (not finished though, that just happened a couple of months ago!) The first picture below is looking at the stairwell from my kitchen. The picture below is looking at the stairwell from our master closet. You can see the reading nook window at the top of the picture.  We framed in walls inside the first container (the one with the front doors) to create the laundry room, powder room (complete with extra shower), and our master bath. We put the smaller rooms inside the containers. We used the larger width between the containers for the ...

We got our siding put up!! I already told yall that we wanted the outside of the house to look like a traditional house. We left a lot of the interior "container walls" without drywalling them. So we decided that metal siding was our most economical choice and it has a 30 year warranty on paint.  We attached it to the pole barn style framing I told you guys about. My husband wanted the exterior to be blue and I wanted cream trim. It turned out very nice.

Our concrete floors! Hello again! I have enjoyed sharing this crazy project with you, I hope you enjoy it too! Today I wanted to fill yall in on our concrete floors! (Pun intended.) Since we had decided not to drywall our interior container walls, we thought it would be best to pour concrete floors on the top two levels. We knew we needed to put a pretty good vapor barrier down because of the pesticides in the container floors. Also, any other kind of flooring (short of just applying a thick epoxy) would have required a lot of custom cutting to accommodate for the corrugation of the container walls. A "before shot of the container floors" We didn't have to reinforce the floors in the containers to accommodate the weight of the concrete, but we did have to in the open area between them. In the sections between the containers, we screwed 2x12 sections between each joist as blocks to prevent the floor joists from twisting. We put in 2 rows that were each 1/3 the l...