Prompt 1: Current Home Trends
Prompt 2: At the Trailer Park
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The Modern Trailer Park is Stacked and Ready for Shipping
Would you ever want to live in a trailer park? No? Okay, what about a shipping container community that's stacked three stories high? "What?!" I know right!
This week on Current Home Trends we're taking a look at... shipping containers? "But Eva that's not a home!' Girl, please, didn't you know, shipping containers are SO in now that they're taking it to the skies!
Willow Creek Container Community : Welcome to Willow Creek, the home of the modern trailer park, and boy, is it modern, except it doesn't really have any trailers.... The modern trailer park is stacked and ready for shipping, as in, the homes are actually shipping containers. Trust me, I made that same look that you're making right now when I first heard about this as well, but it's actually something that's been trending for a while now but the people of Willow Creek have taken it to a whole notha' seaboard. Dolphins, sharks, and whales oh my! The modern trailer park is stacked, as in, you're literally living on top of someone. The main thing that makes the modern trailer park so awesome is its organic sense of community that it accomplishes with its stacked structure and alternating orientations to each container. Essentially, the idea is to create a pyramid (and no, there is no hierarchy, all containers are created equally); therefore, the average 'community' consists of only 6-8 homes. Because of physics, the larger containers are placed on the lower level, and the sizes work their way down as you go up, usually. In addition to the pyramid fashion, each home is placed on an individual axis to create depth, as well as makeshift rooftop gardens for the house above you, unless you're the top house then you're just a shipping container.
The exteriors of these luxurious “trailers” feature oxygenated casted iron, a brush metal, solar crystals and full height ceiling to floor windows to let in daylight and compliment the modern architecture. In the Willow Creek Container Community, the residents of WCCCC have made an effort provide nostalgia and reminisce on their trailer park roots by decorating the exterior of their homes with modern awnings and flower boxes. The landscaping for these homes is very minimal as there is not much yard space, however, the creative, and fluent land flow of their landscape makes the homes really blend in with environment and further allude their awareness for a greener earth. The homes are also painted to be bright, and colorful to avoid the dull and uniformed look that’s familiar with the traditional trailer park.
Inside, the trailers showcase the optimal use of their bare 2000-3000 sqft. of living space by merging the essentials of a home into one, and using vast space saving techniques. One thing in common with the shipping container home trend, is that storage is abundant . Due to such a small and confined amount of space, it is necessary for potential buyers and residents to be able to have adequate storage, as there is a lack of closets with the typical container home.
Upon entry, onlookers are greeted by the kitchen, and living room. The kitchen features high cupboards, and island/bar style dining as the “dining room” of the house. Adjacent to the kitchen is the living room, where shelving surrounds the television and/or stereo to make the most out of the space. Alongside the couches, there are also end tables with more storage options such as simple drawers or near-floor shelving. Beyond the main ‘corridor’ of the home, there’s a feature wall (on which the TV is usually set) and behind that wall is the studio style bedroom, and an enclosed bathroom giving the bedroom a slight ‘L’ shape. Designers of shipping containers are very passionate about reflecting the outside world inside, so often times, a shipping container will be bright colored, feature curated iron paneling resembling the exterior color of the home, and the general walls of the home aside from the feature, are usually a mat neutral color correlated to the overall theme of the home.
The shipping container home only costs twenty-thousand simoleons to construct, five thousand to design, and a varying shipping fee depending on the manufacturer. The shipping container home trend is perfect for any single parents, bachelors, or retired persons who are in the market for a new home and seek low maintenance but a delicate attention to detail, and efficiency. The shipping container home trend is a unique social class of its own, and is destined to make a mark in society. The trend is rapidly spreading across the nation with an average of three hundred homes constructed monthly and for the price tag, it’s easy to see why.
I think I might be looking into one of these now… until next time guys, keep trending!
Apologies for the lateness, the site was down, my car broke down, went to work, just got home, and ugh! This was a great four rounds, good luck to everyone and I really enjoyed participating justJones!