Shipping Container Ideas and Articles
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Whether it's a low cost vacation home being built, or your goal is to downsize your overall life style; a tiny home built from 20' shipping containers provides enough room live comfortably, while reducing your total environmental footprint.
A tiny home built from shipping containers can be on your own (assuming you have the skills), or you can farm the work out to a general contractor. And the hom ...
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As the chill of winter creeps, it only seems fitting to turn to warmer thoughts of sunny beaches, the smell of the barbeque, and sitting next to a shipping container pool. Wait, what… a shipping container pool? As container modifications come into the portable storage and modular building markets, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to convert a shipping container into a poo ...
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Converting shipping containers continues to grow in popularity, and recently we were asked about using them for temporary farm shelters and horse stables. With some proper consideration and modification work, the end product can be a great asset and provide years of use. As opposed to permanent structures, the conversions can be inexpensive, mobile, and very sturdy.
Before we get started, the idea ...
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Shipping containers have building components have grown in popularity over the last couple of years, and the trend shows no sign of slowing down. Lots of people have a hard time envisioning how an ugly steel box could be incorporated into a home, office, or other similar structure, and without much thought it's easy to agree with them. However, before you skip over the idea let's consider five poi ...
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Shipping container cabins are growing in popularity; and while they are catching on, many people don't know where to start on a container cabin project. We've recently completed our own container cabin project and over the past few months we've been documented the process of building a shipping container cabin, and shared pictures, ideas, and how to build a cabin with basic amenities and feature ...
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If you've been following along in our series so far, you'll remember that we're building a very basic container cabin. In the first part, we decided on what features the container cabin needed, in the second part we designed our basic layout. The cabin is actually going to be constructed from two 40' high cube shipping containers, equipped with both a storage and recreation area, and individual wa ...
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Wind isn't something a lot of people regularly think about, especially when it comes to using a shipping container for a storage unit or modular housing component, and in most circumstances it's not a factor that needs to be considered. However, if you live in a flat area prone to extreme wind conditions the discussion is bound to come up. Note that we're not discussing tornados or other weather e ...
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There are countless articles about how shipping containers are deployed in combat zones for storage, bunk houses, security walls, and most obviously shipping and logistical support. However, after a recent trip to the Royal Air force Museum in London, UK I discovered that a creative British Flight Lieutenant deployed Falklands suggested using a shipping container as a chapel.
All other structures ...
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General Motors has recently released information regarding an innovative idea to combat urban blight in Detroit, a small urban farm and home built from a shipping container. The company is sponsoring the idea, while the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, TAKD Design, and Integrity Building Group will be building the house with one 40' shipping container, and scrap materials donated by General Mo ...
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The shipping containers for sale on ContainerAuction.com are used for just about anything you can imagine, and portable office conversions are one of uses that are growing in popularity. Converting a shipping container into a custom portable office gives you a strong, very secure office that can be moved from one job-site to the next. Of course, there is some work involved, and if you're not able ...
