[WhiskeyX]

Tiny houses are less expensive, nicer living, and more mobile.

[beaversmom]

Shipping containers recycled into affordable, accessible Utah home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsuwNfRU_8

[Vince Ferrer]

Several companies do this, and I think it is a great type of house. They are best when the portability of the shipping container is used as well. They would be good for temporary housing, say in an oil patch. When the work dries up, just move the house, rather than have to try to sell a constructed house in a declining town.

Or, you can travel like an RV, but anywhere in the world. If you want to travel to South America for a few months, send your house there on a ship, and find a place to hook it up. Someone could start a cruise ship line, but instead of the normal cruise ship, be a container ship, and you sail in your own home.

[TChad]

Great idea.

Speaking of living in a container for about $40K...

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN85S9-85-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00CMEN95U

[beaversmom]

Single mom made one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVxgOjNLbA

[1_Rain_Drop]

Not a good idea unless the shipping containers are placed on high ground with no chance of ever being in a flood.

During tropical storm Irene, I watched as the flood waters raised two containers and they floated down main street. One finally hit a telephone pole. The other ended up in someone’s backyard.

The shipping containers are too lightweight.

[GraceG]

A shipping container buried into a hill in the country would make a fine tornado shelter or emergency house.

[Carbonsteel]

One of the local colleges here, built an entire dormitory out of several hundred shipping containers. Watching it go up was a sight to behold.

[Leroy S. Mort]

If it's good enough for robots.....

[ExCTCitizen]

I watched BayNews 9 on the guy. We are thinking of getting one for a cottage. It doesn’t look lime a shipping container.

[SamAdams76]

Many people scoff at this but living in a very small house appeals to me - especially as my kids are grown up and have flown the nest.

I'm not talking a trashy place like a converted school bus or run-down trailer. But a very modern small home with high ceilings, skylights, blazing-fast wireless internet, flat-screen against the wall.

In this age of digital media, there is no need for bulky entertainment centers. Just a couple laptops, a tablet or two and tiny speakers mounted on the walls. A small but functional kitchen, we will be going out to eat most nights anyhow. A loft for sleeping (fits two). The main room large enough to have company over but no extra bedrooms to guests to overstay their welcome. Sorry kids but no room for you to move back in. Sorry mother-in-law, but there's a Hampton Inn down the road with reasonable rates if it's too dark to drive home tonight.

[moovova]

Saw one yesterday on the interstate, being transported by a semi. Had a door and two windows on one side...didn’t see the other side. Painted a dark gray. It looked more like a construction site super’s office than a “home”.

[IYAS9YAS]

$37,000? For a shipping container? For that same price you can buy a good quality used diesel truck and a decent 5th wheel that is self-contained.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Lived in them in Iraq, we called them “Chus”

[Sherman Logan]

FWIW, one of the main reasons these units are taken out of service is that they eventually start leaking.