Delivering a shipping container office by flatbed truck
Have you ever considered how difficult it might be to have your shipping container project delivered on site? It turns out that with a skilled driver & a little preplanning,…
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2016 Update. Lot’s of new original content coming soon.
It’s been a tumultuous year here at containerist.com headquarters, but never fear, new content is near! I must apologize for the lack of updates, but life has a way of throwing you a…
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Stalled ambitious 21 container project in Brooklyn NY is active again.
Although North Carolina might be the friendliest place for shipping container homes right now, Brooklyn has the most awesome projects. Keeping up with the interesting architecture in beyond trendy Williamsburg…
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Hello world! We are back from the dead.
Containerist.com is about breathing new life into something that has seemingly past it’s prime. Just like old sea cans get abandoned at the seaport for years on end, only to be…
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A Texas Containerist Paradise? Quite Possibly.
I think I may have found a sort of Shangri-La for those of us dreaming of doing anything we want with a piece of property–building what the heck we want…
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Seoul Has Got Flair. Thanks, Germany?
I woke up this morning to an email from an “M” stating that my site didn’t have any link or article pointing to their site. I checked out the link…
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Cool Truck Lift for Shipping Containers
I like technology and mechanical marvels. We have come a long way since Henry Ford developed a way to mass-produce mechanical parts for automobiles, as well as the assembly of…
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The First Containerist
I wish I could take credit for being the original containerist, but there have been many before myself with the concept. Our ancestors have been using any and all materials…
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Why We Love Container Homes
After running this site and communicating with the VAST numbers of people interested in container home building, I would have to say that besides the out-of-the-box thinking (no pun intended)…
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Open Casting Call! Who Has a Container House/Tiny House Being Constructed?
[EDIT] This post is a few years old but still very much relevant to me. If you are currently building any type of alt house, be it tiny, shipping container…
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