Shipping containers are all standardised. I think the dimensions are 40x8x8... or a bijou 320 sqft of floor space.
Would you/could you live in one of these?
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Shipping containers are all standardised. I think the dimensions are 40x8x8... or a bijou 320 sqft of floor space.
I'd be okay living there. I still use my 14" portable TV, so I don't need a big home entertainment space, and I'm 5'3", so I don't need a big bed. I have a living room/dining room in my current apartment, but it's rare that I actually need more than a small table and one chair for me. Storage for my books and DVDs and other things might be a problem, though.
You are right. Maybe they should have moved the wardrobe along and put a door in for the second bedroom. Also, I think a 2 bedroom unit really only needs one bathroom.
Here is a photo of some inner city housing in Hobart. These aren't that cheap and are really for middle income earners who want to be able to easily walk to work. Despite the fact that the tenants choose to live in them and seem to like them there have been outcries of "people shouldn't be forced to live in tin cans' from some people.
Here is a photo of some inner city housing in Hobart. These aren't that cheap and are really for middle income earners who want to be able to easily walk to work. Despite the fact that the tenants choose to live in them and seem to like them there have been outcries of "people shouldn't be forced to live in tin cans' from some people.
That would be my biggest problem too. However I think there is room for a small bookcase near the TV unit and for a larger one near the table. Also maybe one could attach shelves to the walls above the TV unit, above the table and near the bed?
If I live in one of these I would seriously consider buying a Kindle.
Hehe....house and garage in one.
If I would choose a small-spaced house to live in I´d choose something like this though:
http://www.wohnblicke.de/living/cool-living/view/artikel/wenn-das-traumhaus-ein-baumhaus-ist.html
(They also build them with bathroom and kitchen, even when its not to see on these pictures...but is written in the text.)
If I would choose a small-spaced house to live in I´d choose something like this though:
http://www.wohnblicke.de/living/cool-living/view/artikel/wenn-das-traumhaus-ein-baumhaus-ist.html
(They also build them with bathroom and kitchen, even when its not to see on these pictures...but is written in the text.)
I think the dimensions are 40x8x8... or a bijou 320 sqft of floor space.
It's bigger than my 1st flat (and not a lot smaller than the one I rent now) and even more comfortable. So yeah, I would live in that but I would consider it temporary.
They are nice but, because of my arthritis, climbing up to them would be a major problem.
From the company's website:
and
An ISO standard 40-foot high-cubic container would have outside dimensions 40 feet (12.190 m) long by 8 feet (2.438 m) wide by 9 feet 6 inches (2.896 m) high and an inside total floor area of about 298.5 ft² (27.7 m²). One would presume that these container-sized homes match that area figure fairly closely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container#Specifications
In that case I am sure the builder could integrate a lift in them, then no climbing is needed.
MOBILITY BENEFITS
Units have the same logistical capacity as a standard high cubic shipping container and can be moved by all conventional forms of transport (air, sea, rail and truck).
--> Now this would be practical. Means I could immigrate somewhere and don´t have to do all the packing, but just take everything with me like it is in my container, put it somewhere and everythings still in order.
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Just hope one of your enemies doesn't get ahold of a crane or something, then they can pick up your house and carry it away.
I am single and on my own. I could hypothetically live in one, but would prefer not to. I prefer some space (not just for all of my crap). My bathroom now is larger than my old room at University.
OK, who would prefer to live here?
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^Quite the opposite problem: it's too big. I want to be able to clean my own home by myself in one day. Though it is beautiful.
Eh, it's not as if someone couldn't do almost the same thing with a much larger house. The 4-bedroom house I can look out my window and see across the street as I type this originally stood somewhere else and was picked up and moved here some years ago.
Just hope one of your enemies doesn't get ahold of a crane or something, then they can pick up your house and carry it away.
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I think my first apartment was smaller.
All of this reminds me of the Nakagin Capsule Tower
Where each 'capsule' [Each capsule measures 2.3 m (8 ft) × 3.8 m (12 ft) × 2.1 m (7 ft)] can be a prefabricated fully functional living space:
(Imagine how much more spacious it would look if there wasn't a CRT-TV and reel-2-reel tape-deck and that gigantic phone...)
Where each 'capsule' [Each capsule measures 2.3 m (8 ft) × 3.8 m (12 ft) × 2.1 m (7 ft)] can be a prefabricated fully functional living space:
(Imagine how much more spacious it would look if there wasn't a CRT-TV and reel-2-reel tape-deck and that gigantic phone...)
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^Well, at least there is alcohol.
^Not enough room to store my bar (not even the normal sized bottles) though... Actually, thinking about it: such a capsule would make a decent home-bar!
The "liquor cabinet" was the first thing I recognized. Assuming you didn't also need to store pesky things like "food", at least the alcohol would make things more worthwhile.
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