Posted on 07/23/2014 6:25:24 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
While the world is sizzling and percolating in conflicts and wars, and U.S. is roiling in manufactured crisis after crisis, real or imagined emergencies, overwhelmed by the constant invasion of illegal immigrants, The Washington Post writes on the front page, “Thinking inside the box on D.C. housing costs,” living in repurposed dinged freight shipping containers. Two days before, Deborah K. Dietsch featured “Thinking big in a small way.” (Michael Laris, July 21, 2014)
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Around 1925 my Dads neighbors moved onto land they brought and lived in a old box car they got from the rail road.
Until they could build a house a few years later, Zoning unrealistic building codes have driven housing out of the reach of many who could afford to start small and work up.
For Merle Haggard, a Boxcar Was Home. Now It Needs Work.
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I think people should be able to live in a packing crate if they wish.
There are still places where there aren’t many whiny neighbors and even fewer inspectors. I know a guy who lives on the Lake Superior shore who lives in two house trailers fused together inside a big pole building and its a damn nice place. Its even got a heated indoor yard.
I’ve seen designs that are buried under a mound of dirt to make them tornado proof.
Tornado can go right over the top and you would barely know it.
I’ve seen Native American dwellings from Western Kansas (depicted in a diorama) that were designed that way.
I’ve often figured stacking these 2 x 2 would give a person a reasonable amount of living space.
Just don’t lick the wall during a Minnesota winter.
One of the best things about them if you want to cool it you just turn on the lawn sprinkler and wet it down.
You could plant a garden on top and water your garden at the same time.
Small wood stove will heat them.
We are going “Barndominium.” Living quarters inside a pole building. Big savings in our case on property taxes.
Once you get over the feeling that you are living the Tele-Tubby lifestyle, it should be pretty nice.
A lot people use the 10ft high containers instead of the 8ft high so you don’t feel so closed in and fuse anywhere from 3 to 5 or even more together side by side and gut them replacing the walls with new walls laid out just like a regular house.
Even with earth covered there are still windows and a lot of times the windows will have rolling metal shutters in case of tornadoes.
I’ve never been in one but a friend of mine has and he said you couldn’t tell the difference between it and a regular house except they are quitter.
The 10ft ceilings were a lot different feeling than his 8ft ceiling apartment he was living in, a lot more open than your average apt or house.
Seems like a good option for safety and comfort in the tornado zone.
Obama-villes.
Coming soon to the suburb near you....
I’ve been thinking about one.
I live about 25-30 miles from the Texas Gulf Coast.
Hurricane can blow all it wants and not even wake you up.
I don’t know about cooling in the summer though.
Here our humidity is so high I don’t know if just wetting the earth cover would work well enough by itself or if it would lock moisture inside and create a mold covered mess.
For dryer areas and tornado ally they sound great.
wonder what an apartment complex would look like with shipping containers?
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