Mattel Designer Builds Gorgeous Turquoise Dream Home from Shipping Containers

If building your own home has always been your dream, but the lack of cash has turned it into a unlikely reality, then take a cue from Mattel industrial designer Debbie Glassberg who built her 2,600 square feet <a href="http://www.homecontained.com/">container home</a> out of five Chinese <a href="http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=shipping+containers">shipping containers</a>. Located in Kansas City, this extraordinary dwelling has everything she and her family needs for fine living, with a lot of extra space and natural light to spare. Jump ahead for a look into the nouveau dwelling's chic and retro interiors!

As you enter the residence, an open-plan living room featuring a collection of re-upholstered vintage furniture surprises visitors with style. The chosen shades of turquoise provide the room with an uplifting feeling, making the room shine.

The elegant dinning room features floor-to-ceiling windows dressed with white translucent curtains. This allows ample natural light to come in, while revealing the magnificent tree silhouettes behind.

Apart from being a house entirely made from repurposed containers, the green nature of the project is portrayed right at the entrance door featuring a modest front garden vegetable patch. But this is not the only space allocated for growing vegetables, a long rooftop edible garden, with easy access from the top floor rooms, is already growing fast.

An outside porch sitting area is the perfect place to spend long summer day outdoors.

Back inside the house a white narrow kitchen has been equipped with energy efficient appliances and large windows.

On the top floor there are 2 bedrooms, an office and a bathroom.

The master bedroom was built using two containers.

The master bedroom's bathroom was covered in Venetian glass tiles - easy to keep clean and complimenting the marine shades chosen for the rest of the home.

As a contrast to the rest of the house, a bright red spare room is the place for entertaining friends and watch TV, in an oriental styled atmosphere.

It all started with a few piled containers that after three years of hard work, insulation and love, became a family home.