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Player 3:
http://dornob.com/boring-or-brilliant-simple-shipping-container-house-plans/

Sure, these have been popular in third world countries as housing, but why not crank the style-o-meter to eleven and use them for modern architecture? Being inexpensive ($3000 for a used one sometimes and fetching less on other sizes), it leaves the designer more budget room to fabricate and furbish how they want their new hobo-I mean home to look like.

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Since land is cheaper in the US due to its size, why not buy a lot somewhere and build one of these? They almost look like they could be good anti-storm material, sans really high winds. I always wanted to design my own.

ark_ader:
Yeah I can just see the container truck getting up my narrow driveway and leaving it behind.  Containers belong in a port.

Building a outside office or garage sounds like a better proposition.


Minus the Mac.

SavannahLion:
Shipping containers are pretty popular here, and there are a few locations I now of where they're being used as offices, homes*, etc.

It's a perfectly viable option. The first time I got the idea was from a Jacki Chan movie. When I got snubbed on the ordinances trying to build a cinder block workspace for my wife, we started looking into a shipping container option. The ordinances aren't as bad but my wife doesn't feel comfortable working with molten glass on a floating "foundation". I'm OK with it for my own work space, but my wife doesn't like the idea of spending $3k give or take for a big steel box.  Go figure. :P


* In case the link is dead, it is a news article of a family adding a second story to their home in Tulare, CA.

ChadTower:

You'd spend more insulating those in a wintery climate than it would save.

...and the land sure as hell ain't cheap here.

Yenome:
skip houseing time to build a shipping container arcade woot. I know a guy that if there is enough room for the truck to get in he can back any trailer up to where you need it long as it will fit width wise.

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