Have home, will travel?

If you have $49,500 to spare and a small plot of land, you could drive to Utah and pick up a sweet shipping container home.

While the outside of the home won't earn high marks on the aesthetic scale, the inside of the metal box has been transformed into a cozy living space.

With only 320 square feet to work with, builder Bob Gunther crammed all the essentials—a bedroom, a kitchen, bathroom and living room—into the shipping container.

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Listing agent Dave Woodside added that Gunther brought his years of experience in the mobile home market to bear in the construction of this container home.

"Bob knows exactly how to use space and how to make a home that's easy to transport," Woodside said. "We built this one as a test case, and we know we can build them out in quantity if we see demand."

Right now, the shipping container isn't hooked up, and it only needs someone with a flatbed truck and cash to take it away. Woodside emphasized the home could sit right on the ground wherever there was a level piece of land: The container is outfitted with generator and septic hookups, so it's livable as soon as the utilities are established.

As for the idea of being creeped out by living inside a small, metal box, Woodside doesn't think a buyer needs to worry.

"It's narrow by design—so it may be cramped in that sense," he said. "But it's really nice inside. The contrast between the metal of the outside and the warmth of the home inside is remarkable."

And the container does come outfitted with insulation on all sides, so that feeling of warmth will be palpable to the buyer.

Woodside told us the property might make a nice alternative to a wood cabin for mountain dwellers or could be the perfect fit for someone who's considering the tiny house movement.

Either way, it's a new way to think about what you call home.