Using Pier Footings for Your Shipping Container Home
Caveat: before you read the main part of this post, please note that this would be my approach to things. That means what you are about to read is all opinion…
Read more »Maui Ocean View Getaway on a Budget
As I mentioned in a previously post, everyone has their own idea of what they can live with or when a project is finished in their own mind–good enough. This…
Read more »Building Codes: All 50 States!
After much googling and stumbling into nowhere links, I finally found the perfect resource for us owner-builders. I know building codes are the biggest obstacle for containerists wishing to assemble…
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Australian Waters: When Containers Attack
We hear stories of giant squid and bus-sized sharks and sea monsters… but when I hear about a shipping container attacking a boat, I don’t know whether to laugh or…
Read more »Laborer Housing in Maryland
Here is a great small shelter for a laborer at an iris nursery in Monkton, Maryland. A native of Vera Cruz, Mexico, worker Nimrot Vera, who had been living in…
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Sustainable, Self-Sufficiency = Hippies?
I shake my head within a slight hue of exasperation when I think about the concept of living off the land and a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle because there is such…
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Where Are the Coronas?
If this doesn’t put a smile on your containerist face, I don’t know what will. I suppose it just doesn’t take much anymore to make people happy. I can see…
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Ugh! Shipping Containers and Building Codes.
do believe that this is probably of greatest concern for us containerists (besides coming up with a cool home design!): passing building code inspections. I will try to help with some…
Read more »Maersk Loses $555m
As if pirates off the coast of Somalia weren’t bad enough, leading shipping giant Maersk reports a first quarter loss of $555 million over last year’s meager profits of $9m…
Read more »Human Interest Story about Alternative Homes
Rarely do I find videos or images about shipping containers that are compelling enough to make me say: “Whoa… that’s cool.” Most of the ones I have seen are pretty…
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