This is Joseph Dupuis' modern, energy efficient home. The price tag? He built it for about $40,500 and is now selling it for almost $47,000.
How did he get it so cheap? Well, this house is actually made out of three 20-foot shipping containers. And CTV reports Dupuis hopes one day his vision of a community of shipping-container homes will come true.
That's because Dupuis is a proponent of living off the grid. He designed the house "to be dismantled, moved and erected in a new location with limited resources and time."
Dupuis told The Huffington Post: "I want to help as many people as I can get out of the pocket of big banks and make people more self-sufficient. ... I see my friends buying [more than $320,000] houses, and they're in debt for the next 35 years. ... We don't need these expensive homes and all this stuff we have in our lives."
Dupuis' home has solar panels and is heated by an in-floor heating system and a wooden stove. It also has a full kitchen and shower with water heater.
There is a downside: There's no toilet, but Dupuis said that's so the house can still legally be portable. There is a spot for a future toilet.
This video includes images by Japhet Alvarez / CC BY ND 2.0.
