“Need more room for the Family? How about a value for money holiday batch / crib?” asks the listing. By crib they do mean, like, crib, not crib, right? They’re planning on this being a hangout for teenagers, not for infants? Because I don’t think you’re supposed to keep children in shipping containers. If I’m wrong please correct me. No, really, correct me. I could do with a wee bit of alone time, and a shipping container would be cheaper than a babysitter over time.
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This kinda reminds me of that show on HGTV where they proudly show off tiny offbeat homes & how the occupants have utilized every inch of living space…but this is really extreme!
Actually, there are companies selling homes made from shipping containers. Any country with a trade deficit has mountains (literally) of these things piled up. You can melt them down and recycle the steel, but that takes a lot of energy. Just google for shipping container homes, and see what you get.
Yeah, but they usually DO something with the containers besides just plopping them down on the ground in a row …
There is a company called ContainerCity which builds entire projects from containers. But they repaint them and add windows all round.
http://www.containercity.com/home.html
By that same token I had a friend who spent a summer living out of a self service storage fascility. Amazingly they didn’t catch him for 3 months because their “Security Guard” was a 70 year old man who spent his time watching Nick at Night rather than survailence.
For $60 a month you got a heated 4′ x 8′ room.
Apparently all you need is a bed, a flashlight, a gym pass, and a 24 hour Super Wallmart across the street.
I’ll keep that in mind if I have nowhere else to stay – a new self-storage block has just been built close to where I work. I could do with a crash-out pad
Of course, there probably isn’t an electric socket in the room, so that does make using a laptop a bit tricky. But then again, you could use an exercise bike to charge the battery.
It’s district 9 for humans!!!
“batch / crib”? Wha? What’s a batch?
They misspelled “bach” (apparently originally short for “bachelor’s house”, given their comparatively small size and modest amenities), which is the North Island term for a holiday house, usually by a beach. “Crib” is the equivalent South Island term, and has nothing whatsoever to do with babies or black Americans’ houses.
Not that “bach” isn’t used in the South – that’s what my relatives call their holiday house.
True, and I’ll concede that there may well be North Island ones whose owners call them “cribs”. But that’s the general naming convention explained anyway.
What still remains to be explained is who would think plonking a row of containers down and installing an interior is nice! I know that a family in Wellington won some sort of architecture award for their containers-stacked-on-a-cliff-below-a-landfill-makes-a-lovely-home effort, and our next prisons will be made out of containers welded together, but really – what were these people thinking!
P.S.: Pretty sure this is where Harry Morgan found Dexter.
OK, glad I’m not the only one who thought that!
SAME HERE. First thing that shot into my mind… EEEK!
First thing that popped into my head too haha
A bach or a crib is a cottage or holiday home in ‘Kiwi-ese’. Most of the ones I’ve been to are a little bigger than this one.
I went down to look at these… people are renting them.
A ‘Batch’ is a holiday home, in New Zealand it is quite common when you buy a holiday section to just have a toilet/shower installed and camp on it for a few years. The shipping containers are simply the next step.
Thanks for explaining. Now I know that, should I ever visit N.Z., I don’t have to run away quickly if a nice gentleman offers to show me his batch.
Actually, with just a little modification, seems the perfect space for the inevitable zombie infestation. That blue one looks like it only has one point of entry, making it much easier to defend.
I think they need to be at least Tweens before you can lock them in there. But I might get one for my 20-something.
Up here in British Columbia, these containers are sometimes converted into “grow ops” — that is, farms for our largest export: BC Bud.
We Canucks are nothing if not resourceful.
i read the description on this and i loved the part where it said that electricity is supplied with an extension cord.
But its not the worst idea i’ve ever seen, I would enjoy a good place to escape my family so that i can have some privacy, provided of course its properly insulated.
“Supplied with extention cord for power” heh yeah I thought this sentence was the winner on this listing.
Need more room for the Family?
Why does this make the theme from The Godfather go through my head?
I think I saw this on http://container-life.com/
…well, maybe not.
Am I the only one who thinks that’s freakin’ cool?
You know, once you read the actual listing, it’s hardly an odd finding. It fact it sounds like a sensible approach if you need temporary space.
Should I even ask where the one bathroom is? And I don’t know the exchange rate but it says $120/wk – that is about $500/month! For a container…
You’re looking at just under US$90 per week I think. The $120 could be a little steep, but not unreasonable here
Park ‘em in downtown Austin and stack several on top of each other, charge $5000 a month for them, and BAM! Instant Status Symbol.
And you know what the best part is? Free shipping!
They are getting quite popular here – so much that they are now planning to use them in the prisons to solve the overcrowding!
I just realized that trying to live in something like this in my area would be a disaster. The first summer day in Central Texas that hits three digits, and that thing goes from groovy bachelor nook to not-so-groovy bachelor oven.
(I live in hotashell, texas too) New container house.. NOW WITH A WINDOW UNIT! *avalability limited since the door and window are the same opening.
Howdy neighbor!
Are you enjoying this “Autumn” (read: misplaced Spring) rain as much as I am…?
Absolutely loving it!! And hoping that the cool weather (read below 80 degrees) continues for Halloween!! I’m going to be a time traveler!! Woots!
My son the Lego-Maniac wants to be a Power Miner. I might make my little girl one of those beautiful green Luna moths. I’m just going as an exhausted thirtysomething housewife with two small kids. My constume is impeccable…
Hey, wait, that’s my costume.
Ah, just the thing for rail-hopping hobos when they want to put down roots and settle down.
Here we see the all-new FEMA trailer, just in time for the 2009 hurricane season.
My parents lived in a quonset hut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut as married student housing in Ames, Iowa in the 70s (before I was born).
Not too different, if you think about it. They did say it got awfully cold.
Shipping container houses always remind me of The Boxcar Children, though. Anyone ever read those books?
I think most adolescent femals in the 80s and early 90s did.
Did you know they were actually first published in 1924?
OH MAN! I’ve been wanting to get that for my son! Ahh, good reading!
Johanna beat me to it… the ones sold in Texas can come with AC.
Has anyone looked into this as a solution for housing the homeless, I wonder? It would beat sleeping in the street.
Be nice too if we could export these to places where people live in cardboard shacks with families. That would solve a really big problem!
Aww, no one has mentioned The Boxcar Children?
For lots of much, much better architectural designs from
Giant Lego Blocksshipping containers, please check out http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htmEspecially worth viewing is the c320 studio from Studio Hybrid here in Seattle (see http://www.hybridseattle.com/), where we have a great surplus of containers coming in from Asia.
Awesome link. I like the luxury condo concept:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredag/156406699/in/set-72157594149758105/
“Supplied with extention cord for power.”
Well, thank goodness!
You know, if you added a rubbish burn barrel and a few cardboard boxes…
I have a friend who works for the State Dept. and was stationed in Kabul for a year. She said that’s what they lived in…….when you think about it, it is a decent solution for those temporary assignments. They shipped her belongings home in it when her assignment was over–she didn’t have to pack a thing!
My husband built your friend’s house! He was deployed to Kabul when we first invaded and helped build the shipping-container city everyone lives in. He lived in one himself for six months.
Awww. Lovely Listing, bringing people together.
I really want to have a snarky laugh at this listing’s expense, but all I can think is…
I want one.
I am so weird.
I too am oddly drawn by this listing. I wish my backyard was big enough for one, then my hubby would have his “manhole”. Or, I would have my sewing room, whichever.
Surely I’m not the only student of architectural history here!? Does no one else here recognize Le Corbusier’s theme from “Towards a New Architecture:” “the home is a machine for living?” There was an illustration in there of his design for modular living that depicted a giant hand reaching into a stack of shipping container apartments and pulling one of them out to demonstrate his industrial ideal. A drawing that has haunted me since I first saw it in 1981.
I kid you not. :shudder:
Apparently New Zealanders thrive on my nightmares.
They are actually considering housing prisoners in shipping containers here in NZ so I’m surprised that they’re actually trying to sell them…the Ministry of Justice might be interested.
Here in New Zealand (how amazing we really have featured!) crib or bach is a local term for a holiday home.
When I think of the concept “holiday home” I think of a happy place. Since I have never been to New Zealand, can you explain to me the appeal of a shipping container as a holiday home? I don’t understand.
This site http://www.littlediggs.com/ has some interesting tiny houses, beach homes, and living concepts. Also links to other small living accomodations.
Screw the Boxcar kids, am I the only one here who’s read Snow Crash, a cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson? The main character is living (with a roommate!) in a storage facility at the opening of the story.
Good way to travel by train..you could bring your car along too as so you wouldnt need to rent one.
i found this cooperation. http://www.twotimestwentyfeet.com/
they even manufakture big Container buildings
http://www.twotimestwentyfeet.com/p/hilfiger_w2011