Arts & Crafts: build your next home out of shipping containers

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I’m not sure what is “arts & crafts” about this, at all.

Also, this must surely be by far not the first thread on this topic and I again wait for the various opposing arguments about the un/suitability of shipping containers for housing.

Please allow me to prime the discussion with a reference back to this

How to build a house out of shipping containers

wasn’t it established the last time that though this looked and sounded cool it wasn’t? impossible to regulate the temperature, the wrong shape, too small, and not as durable as you’d expect. still, an admirable marketing campaign, at least.

And previously

This desert getaway is made of shipping containers radiating in every direction

Thank you. 'Shipping containers would be great for affordable housing" is one of my pet-peeves. Answer: 'No they bloody wouldn’t, virtually everything is wrong with shipping containers in regards to the needs of housing.

Personally, I believe they may have some utility as housing in some limited circumstances but largely, not.