- Today we're in Brown County, Ohio, almost an hour east of Cincinnati.

I met with Jim Martin, retired firefighter and Cincinnati native, and I asked him why he's making this movie Eastward.

- Well, brown County was good to build a container home because you can build a container home in Brown County.

You can't in Claremont County or Hamilton County, or - Ohio in general has restrictions and requirements for building container homes according to local container, home, business house in a box.

In comparison to other counties in southwest Ohio, brown County was the easiest to work with when building a container home, did you have any hesitations?

Do you have any concerns about living in a container home?

- No hesitation concerns?

Yes, of course, and I would have concerns if I was, was building a regular stick BU home - This past fall.

House in a box, founder and CEO Sandra Whitley put those concerns to rest.

She gave us a tour of her model container home in Lebanon, Ohio.

- Step inside and see what a finished container actually looks like and look at all this space.

It actually gives you, - This single container is a couple of feet longer than two Jeep Wagoneers parked from taillight to headlight and is almost the height of an NBA regulated hoop.

I didn't think it could fit the essentials of a home, but Sandra proved me wrong.

- We've got full size everything in here.

As you walk in, you're gonna first come into your living room.

The first finish we did is a shiplap finish and you have a front entrance and a rear entrance.

And as you walk through, you'll come into your kitchen, which comes with full size appliances.

You, you have pocket doors to the next room.

You'll come into your full size bathroom.

Behind that, you'll have your stackable washer and dryer, or you can put 'em side by side.

And as you walk through into the bedroom, you'll see that it fits a full queen-sized bed - With the container home.

There is also an opportunity for some major cost savings.

- We are at the Warren County Career Center.

The average home price in this county is over $400,000.

Rent is over 2000.

That's the average for this.

If say it was a rental, 600, 750 bucks because the cost of this unit alone is only $45,000.

- According to online block site living in a container.com, the average cost to build a container home is 40 to $60,000.

But they can go for as little as $25,000 with an average monthly maintenance cost of a hundred dollars.

Unlike a modular home, you can move a container home to a different location at some expense.

Jim and his wife are constructing their home with six containers.

They're gonna go through Sandra's house in a box business to do so.

Tell me a little bit of, of how this is gonna lay out.

- This right here is 16 feet wide.

So these are, this is two 40 foot containers going this way.

- Okay, - So this, this is the kitchen area.

This is two 20 foot containers.

- Okay.

- Going this way.

And then this other side right here, there is the other, is the other two 40 foot containers going long ways.

- So is it is gonna be in the letter of an H?

- Correct.

- And you might be surprised how much that contains.

- So the master bedroom will be over there.

Okay.

The, the living room will be over here.

Dining room office.

It's three bedroom, two bath, it's about 1600 square feet of living space.

Actual living space.

- What are some of the benefits of having a container home?

- The benefits are, are low cost speed of construction and it, it's going to allow us to have, you know, the things that we really want, which is, you know, lower rent and higher living.

- What would you say a container home has that a stick build doesn't have - Versatility.

So I can take this 40 foot container, I could take another 40 foot container and put it perpendicular to it or parallel with it either way.

And I can run 'em and I can just keep going in all different directions.

The only thing I need is a support under each corner, whereas a stick build home, if I'm gonna wanna build weird stuff, I gotta have a lot of support on that.

'cause wood can only go a certain dimension before it starts to bow.

- Do you see this becoming a - Trend?

I feel like container homes are where barn condominiums were 10 years ago, so I feel like it's gonna be a growing trend.

Once people see what they can get for their money, there's not a lot of 'em around, so you gotta be able to think a little bit outside the box.