Living in a shipping container.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Amazing Homes and Offices Built from Shipping Containers
Not just for resourceful squatters, container architecture is taking the world by storm. Recycled freight containers bring efficiency, flexibility and affordability to innovative green buildings, from small vacation cabins to movable cafes, schools and skyscrapers.

Posted by American1st at 07:08 AM | 25 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

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Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 07:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

The reason they live in shipping containers is because they havene't seen this commercial.

Cullman Liquidators Real Commercial

Posted by Lipzoidial at 2009-11-17 07:33 AM | Reply | Flag:

For about 50 Years My Great Aunt lived in 2 boxcars in the shape of an L with Her Husband and 2 kids. That's all they could afford and were quite happy about it too.

Larry

Posted by LarryMohr at 2009-11-17 07:44 AM | Reply | Flag:

The Market has decided: Let them eat their cake in shipping containers.
~Phree Market Phreaks

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-11-17 07:44 AM | Reply | Flag:

I've seen some of those cargo container homes. They can be done very nicely and are reasonably economical.

I wouldn't mind living in one.

Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2009-11-17 07:48 AM | Reply | Flag:

They are still fucking ugly.

Posted by 726 at 2009-11-17 08:03 AM | Reply | Flag:

I could see having one set up as a hunting cabin. Maybe on a high knoll in the woods, with a wood-burning stove and a hammock, or somethin'. I have a friend who's a telegrapger for CSX, and he's told me about folks actually yanking boxcars off the tracks and dragging them out into the desert to live in out west. Musta been some of Larry's folks...

~(:^)

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 08:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

*telegrapher*

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 08:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

Nahhhhhhh My Grandfather My Great Grandfather 3 Uncles and a host of others used to work for the ATSF Railroad Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe so She got the two from one of them. I can't remember who. Oh and they moved them into town. I think they are still there not sure.

Larry

Posted by LarryMohr at 2009-11-17 08:17 AM | Reply | Flag:

I was razzin' ya, Larry. He mentioned West Texas and New Mexico.

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 08:23 AM | Reply | Flag:

I'd like to have an early 20th century passenger coach to turn into a cabin. Like one of these

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 08:24 AM | Reply | Flag:

I know

Posted by LarryMohr at 2009-11-17 08:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

Now that would rock. Someplace quiet and out in the sticks with that passanger coach. Peace and Quiet.

Larry

Posted by LarryMohr at 2009-11-17 08:30 AM | Reply | Flag:

Oh, I know, you puling hypocrites on the Left (so far out on the left you'd make Vladimir I. Ulyanov, a.k.a. your buddy Lenin squirm) and the dog saliva eating enablers on the so-called Right (you tools would wet yourselves if you knew just how far right the iron fist can be extended) value your creature comforts. But, hey, you scarfer downers of regurigated tiger bait, look how easy it is for me to relocate my modular domicile -- the Kaczynski Model #A-O 1776) when subpoena servers and federal authorities start closing in: www.umt.edu So, be like me: stop whining and learn how to crap in the woods.
~Tad

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-11-17 08:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

...stop whining and learn how to crap in the woods.

~Tad

/obligatory.

Be Well.

Posted by dethspud at 2009-11-17 09:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

They are still fucking ugly.
#6 | Posted by 726 at 2009-11-17 08:03 AM | Reply | Flag: Chop down a few more in the old growth forests for 726

Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2009-11-17 09:13 AM | Reply | Flag:

A bear and a rabbit were squatted down taking a shit when the bear turns to the rabbit and asks, "Do you have trouble with shit sticking to your fur?" "Not at all",replied the rabbit. "Good!" sez the bear, whereupon he grabs the rabbit and wipes his ass with him....

Tad's the bear.

What's up, Doc_?

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 10:13 AM | Reply | Flag:

hehehe..

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 10:14 AM | Reply | Flag:

Living in a shipping container.
Amazing Homes and Offices Built from Shipping Containers

Great! Looks like just the remedy for a couple weeks of temporary housing I'll need until I find an apt. I really like.

I wonder if they have 2-bedroom, 2 bath Bekin's containers with hardwood floors equipped with a washer and dryer, a dishwasher, a/c and a garage?

(j/k in case any new posters on here don't get my weird sense of humor)

Posted by CalifChris at 2009-11-17 12:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is soooooooooo cool! We have a friend who purchases shipping containers and the like and uses them for storage and garages for projects - great ideas in the slide show.

Saw one yesterday where the guy converted a garbage truck and is Origami King!

Posted by nanc at 2009-11-17 12:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

The aluminum ones are nice. I think you can get the 20' for under 2 grand.

Posted by dxlingr at 2009-11-17 06:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

An enterprising person would buy a few and sink them in the ground and make grow rooms, just saying.

Posted by dxlingr at 2009-11-17 06:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not a bad ideam Dxlinger...maybe a few coats of waterproofing beforehand. Make a nice extreme weather shelter, too. Or a cellar...plus you'd have a lot of weed to smoke while holed up....

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 08:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

ideam? haha!

Posted by American1st at 2009-11-17 08:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

I shared one of these with 2 dudes in Afghanistan, that was the housing at HQ ISAF. It wasn't too bad.

Posted by butthole_surfer at 2009-11-18 02:16 PM | Reply | Flag: