container homes

a picture for reference - very modern!!

Where are my glasses??????? Perhaps you have lost yours.

Agree that looks very modern and super, but cant quite get my head round a container.

Maybe the bog standard caravans of the 50s could qualify for the title. But they had wheels

Yes, but you need to the find the ground first!

I can see that they may make very good homes, not the style which appeals to me though. I like older houses, cottage style, and cozy.
Other than that if I had pots and pots of money I would have a Castle with drawbridge, and the works, would still have it cozy inside though .

Jollyg You say you cannot get your head around a container, every dwelling is a container, it contains the people who live within it, and all their goods.

Yes, but the OP refers to 'making a home out of containers'.

My immediate thought was cardboard boxes, but they wouldn't be very practical!

Ana, I too thought of cardboard boxes

Shipping containers have been made into mes for students and the homeless and very nice they looktoo.ho . Wouldn'tmind living in one myself.

Don't know what happened there and it wouldn't let me edit. "Homes","look too" and "Wouldn't mind".

I've seen some amazing homes made from shipping containers. One of George Clark's programs showed a guy who made extra classrooms for a school from two. They won't rot like the old mobiles schools usually have.

Grand Designs had one done out of 2 cantilevered shipping containers. He was in Northern Ireland and I have to say he ended up with a very cost effective, beautiful modern home.

He owned the land so didn't have that cost.

I'd love to have a flat pack home built for me if I could find the right semi rural plot - so good luck wherearemyglasses what an adventure !

I think it was Ferrari that had there hospitality suite as several container like structure that all locked together to produce a huge 2 story building with bars, restaurant ect for F1 meetings.

https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/201610/medium-594666-404211.jpg https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/201610/medium-767524-ferrarihome.jpg

Here are some pictures

Fabulous, Wobbly. I saw a TV prog once where a young couple made a home out of containers bolted together. They kept a spare one nearby so they could extend their home when the baby arrived. Sounds like a good idea if the OP can find a suitable plot of land.

I suspect the Ferrari system may have cost a little more than a dozen containers, each section came on a dedicated truck, the whole building was put together in a few hours.

Fantastic idea

Containers are now being used as rentable storage units - they cost about £10.000 each to buy. Many already a plywood floor. Lots of containers only do one trip before being scrapped!

I can't help thinking they would feel cold - even if they weren't!

This was the one I was thinking of www.pb-architects.com/completed-photos/

There are containers being used as offices in our town, they look fine and I imagine you can heat them as easily as any other building.

Have a look through some German designs, they tend to be with it where new ideas are. And then there was the pod idea, to have one pod for a room, I think that was on George Clarke too. It sounds an exciting enterprise, do something different, why not if you can.

I would love to live in a Tiny Home - people are put off as many of the earlier designs included a loft bedroom with often just a ladder to access it but newer designs can include a ground floor bedroom, or a wall bed (one that folds away) or proper stairs to the loft room. They are really well insulated and I like the idea of being able to have solar panels for electricity too.

Nanaandgrampy, those pictures are wonderful - just the sort of thing I was looking for. I had no idea some had been built on grand designs, though thinking about it now, I suppose I should have expected it.

I like the idea of making something useful out of something that might have been scrapped.

i haven't heard of tiny homes Dot, but I'm off to do some investigation...

Great idea. I'd love to have a go. After the Christchurch (New Zealand) earth quake they used shipping containers for some really wonderful purposes. If you are serious I'd be contacting Grand Designs or that George from the amazing spaces program to check out. They know about land, planning, getting and transporting things like that. I Admire you vision/dream.