Small/Tiny House Movement

Antome · **Joined:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:10 am **Posts:** 793

Once thepiratebay secures and island, we could all move there.

Shipping containers are indeed awesome. Didn't think about natural disasters, because we have absolutely null here in hamilton :dah:

nterror · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:54 pm

I never thought of any natural disasters either, but it shouldn't be too hard to support one of these suckers. There are also a lot of cool ideas for shipping container houses, I just find the idea of building an entire house from scratch more attractive than scouring the state for a frame.

vskid3 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:28 pm **Posts:** 683

Shipping containers are a good idea. They should be fairly storm-proof, flooding and large trees falling on them are the only things that could really damage them. Any competent person should be able to turn them into a house several times more storm-proof than the average home. I would do something like the kid's house on Tron Legacy, so you aren't limited to the size of the containers interiors (but that would drift from the tiny house idea).

Mako321 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:36 pm **Posts:** 3401

vskid3 wrote:

Shipping containers are a good idea. They should be fairly storm-proof, flooding and large trees falling on them are the only things that could really damage them. Any competent person should be able to turn them into a house several times more storm-proof than the average home. I would do something like the kid's house on Tron Legacy, so you aren't limited to the size of the containers interiors (but that would drift from the tiny house idea).

http://inhabitat.com/container-city-in- ... -hot-spot/
Also
http://www.carre-detoiles.com/
I'd love to live in a cube.

Zero · **Joined:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:52 pm **Posts:** 2635

After less than 5 minutes of searching, I already found some nice sized shipping containers for around $1500. I'm really tempted to go further with this idea, but the whole land issue is a bummer. If I could figure out some place to put it, this could definitely work.

nterror · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:03 pm

Mako, those cube houses are neat, but must be gigantic. If they are actually cubes, to have bed space on a loft to fit four people would just make it pretty large.

Also, Zero, if you put it on a trailer, there are different zoning laws and such, I believe. I would assume it would make everything easier. That is, if you're only using one shipping container.

Zero · **Joined:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:52 pm **Posts:** 2635

Well, I just meant the fact that land in general isn't cheap around here. If it was on a trailer, then yeah, I could put it in a trailer park or something, but that's not very ideal.

ttsgeb · **Posted:** Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:23 pm

A 3*6 place isn't that bad of a bedroom/office... It could work.

Soon, I'll be moving into my truck so I can have an upgrade in space.

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