could you live in a shipping container?

[MagickMan]

If I were single? Sure. I don't need much space. Now, garage space, that's a bigger issue.

 

[Meghan54]

Exactly.

It's not a mystery why these things are rarely used to hold people.

It is expensive as hell to take odd sized steel tubes and turn them into something comparable to a typical house. Nearly all existing examples are either basic temporary housing or play things of the rich and misguided.

Really? You cannot think of any way to install plumbing, elect., insulation in this? No creativity or imagination?

Here are some examples of others who have done just this:

http://www.dwell.com/articles/Five-Inspirational-Shipping-Container-Homes.html

http://www.mnn.com/your-home/remode...shipping-container-homes/a-new-kind-of-living

http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/shipping-container-homes-460309

http://environment.nationalgeograph.../pictures-amsterdam-shipping-container-homes/

Pics of a LOT of these done already:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shi...jHsLC0QGWp4C4Ag&ved=0CFYQsAQ&biw=1592&bih=999

Not saying those were cheap, but hella cheaper to do than traditional stick-built housing by a long shot.