We built our dream home for £48K after living in a van – we don’t want to waste our cash on rent & now have our own farm

Source: The Sun

Author: Kate Kulniece

Published: Jan, 30 2025 10:10

A COUPLE spent £48k building their dream home - out of two 40ft shipping containers. Lexi Newkirk, 24, and her husband, Diego, 25, wanted to escape the city and bought 12-and-a-half acres of land in Hill County, Texas, US - for £144,700 . The pair have always loved unique homes and decided to make a tiny home out of shipping containers - costing £4,000 each.

Image Credit: The Sun [A man playfully lifts a woman in the air on a plot of land marked as sold.]

Diego - who works in mould removal - has spent the last year constructing the containers into a 640 square foot home with one bedroom and a bath. The pair now hope to have it completely finished by the beginning of March and will use the rest of their land to build a homestead.

Image Credit: The Sun [Shipping containers being lifted by a crane onto a foundation during home construction.]

Lexi, a owner of a digital marketing agency, said: "We love it. "We're living on 12-and-a-half acres and I love it. "It's like our own little city. "It's going to catch a lot of peoples' attention.". Lexi and Diego grew up in Austin, Texas, but wanted to move out and bought their land - which they named Livingstone Ranch - in October 2023.

Image Credit: The Sun [Person installing a spiral staircase in a shipping container home.]

Lexi said: "We grew up in the city and we wanted to escape it.". The pair had originally wanted to turn their land into an "exotic tiny Airbnb ranch" by building 15 to 20 little unique homes but were not allowed to put in commercial property due to state laws.

Image Credit: The Sun [Interior view of a shipping container home under construction, showing a bathtub and staircase.]

Instead they decided to use one of their ideas to use and build their own shipping container home. The single use containers were delivered after the couple had marked out their road and spot for their house in November 2023. They built a foundation and basement before stacking the containers on top of each other.

Image Credit: The Sun [Man standing next to large water tank at a construction site.]

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