Comments on: GDL08: Container living

By: ER

ER — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:41:20 +0000

Heck, a container might actually be a perfect low-cost basic low to zero maintenance summer house or cottage. In addition to the DIY approach, there seem to be ones made to be offices or temporary homes. I also wonder whether one could landscape a container with some sort of a hedge or plants that would cover the surface mostly. Now if I could only find a place by a river or a lake and get permits from my missus and the local municipality.

I also found some interesting websites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_container_architecture
http://fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm
http://www.containercity.com/cove-park.html

Erkki

By: jonp

jonp — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:58:59 +0000

The first time I saw containers as housing they were in the arctic, and considerably more basic – windows and doors cut out with a welding torch, and lined in chipboard. They were the standard material for summer camps for local fur trappers and fishermen. Obviously things have come a long way since then!

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By: Suw

Suw — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:20:52 +0000

I thought about burying one as well, although then you have to think about how you stop it flooding when it rains. But I think you could easily clad a container with cedar and put a living roof on it, and you’d actually end up with a very nice, if a bit oblong, looking shed.

By: alaricsp

alaricsp — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:14:28 +0000

CONTAINERS FOR THE WIN!

I became excited about these things a few years back while living near Romford. The docks at Rainham had containers piled up several high, which I called Giant Lego, and wondered about getting one as a shed, and thus found various sites advertising conversions of them into various structures…

You can get these really little ones, more or less cubic in size – quarter length, I think they’re called – that would make great garden sheds, IMHO.

Where we live now, out in the countryside, a rusty cargo container would be a bit out of place. So I’m wondering if it’d be a good idea to bury some of them under the lawn with steps down into them. The phrase “Underground laboratory” has great appeal…