No matter what you do, how much you purge, or how much you refrain from buying, your home eventually gets overrun with stuff. Home buying shows always talk about how much storage a new home has and buying bins, totes, and other stackable storage and shelving is a billion-dollar industry. Self-storage – those places that…
Temperature-controlled storage — or climate-controlled storage — is a must-have for many people who have customized and reimagined a storage container. Of course, not every storage container will need it. But if it does, then the owners of those containers will be happy to learn that a temperature-controlled storage container is relatively easy to come…
Thinking about living in a shipping container? Wondering what it might be like to spend your life there. Well, let’s take a step back. First of all, one does not live in a shipping container. One lives in a home that has been reconfigured, reimagined, and refashioned out of a shipping container. This may seem…
How do you know which shipping container you should choose? There are size, weight, and height considerations to take into account. Of course, there are also other details that need to be worked out, including such fundamental questions as what kind of shipping container doors to install. Each of these questions — and many, many…
Creative and ingenious people never run out of ways to transform a shipping container from a corrugated metal box into something spectacular and inspiring. Such is the case with a newer trend in the eco-friendly practice of recycling shipping containers into new forms: container farming! Now, at first glance, this might not seem to make…
As we’ve mentioned time and time again on this blog, you can transform a shipping container into pretty much anything. Office spaces, sheds, apartments, pools, and so much more But did you know you can also turn a shipping container into a restaurant? Yep. A full-fledged restaurant with a kitchen, dishwashing station, deep fryer, booths,…
Do you live in an urban area and want to reap the benefits of growing your own vegetables and plants? Have you thought about the benefits of growing those veggies and plants in a greenhouse shipping container? It can be done! Growing your own food or tending to some of your favorite plants can be…
Shipping Container Home Windows We could go on and on about shipping container windows here at the Container Stop blog. Experience has shown us that clients possess a near-limitless ability to imagine windows of many shapes, sizes, placements, opacity, and more. It’s one of the things that make our line of work so interesting and…
We’ve written all about the good reasons to score a shipping container. We’ve examined the many ways in which a shipping container can be converted into a living space. We’ve talked at length about people just like you who have turned shipping containers into super excellent, creative spaces. But what are some other creative uses…
There are many advantages to building with shipping containers. Although originally conceived for reasons much different than housing or business space, shipping containers are nevertheless easy to work with and to reconfigure into something new. This is true in no small part to their ingenious modularity, which allows for creative combinations of just about any…
We’ve built cabins, garden sheds, and tack rooms with our containers. Have an idea for your shipping container? Let us know!
