That was a little weird!

I have almost that same floor plan drawn out, for a house built out of two 40' hi cube cargotainers. Cree-ah-eee-peee!!

Kudos to the builder. (he's obviously a design genius!) I liked that big scallop cut in the living room. I had set my stuff to have rounded corners at all the doors. And I was going to plaster all the wall corners to ceiling places rounded like a Spanish Style house in CA.

The other idea I had, was to use two of those set about 12' or 14' apart, put regular roof trusses on top of them and close in the ends. You could get truss seconds cheap. With the containers and roof trusses you could put your walls for rooms almost anywhere.

Thanks for posting that.

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Special care must be taken when earth sheltering a container.They are designed to take the weight load on the corners,but not the sides or top.They have been known to collapse when buried with out special supports added.

Matt

Save yourself a lot of time and money by buying an INSULATED shipping container. They are highly efficient, and just as easy to modify as the regular containers....the one caveat being you can't use a torch to cut holes because you would set the foam insulation afire.
Sawzalls are my friend...

Another thing to keep in mind is that since containers are modular, they mate and stack well. You could just as easily set up four (4) of them with an inside atrium or courtyard, and the outside having only the access door(s). That improves security if you haven't bermed around the buildings: you get light through the courtyard windows, no other easy ingress.
Berms are nice for thermal efficiency, but allow easy access to roofs and stove pipes/vents. Bunker-busting tip: drop a grenade in or just stop up the stove pipe, and the residents tend to come out like roaches.

Cut off the doors from one end of one of the containers, and re-set it somewhere else on the building. That way you can put a set of 'garage doors' where you want them to lock in your vehicle(s). Modify the door latches to work from the INSIDE, swinging OUT.

And being modular means you do not have to do the whole thing at once. Set your first basic unit, and add to it when you can.
With proper anchor points and a good (set of) winch(s) you can place 'em exactly where you want 'em, if they dropped them in the wrong position.
If you stack units, have a crane out there with more than adequate capacity to do the lifts, and get them ALL lifted at the same time. Getting the crane out there more than once is expensive.

Two 20 footers and two 40 footers will give you a courtyard about 20x24. Four 40-footers will give you a yard 40x24...and so on, depending on how you arrange them.

Google is also my friend, in this case with general container info:
http://www.containeralliance.com/buyers-guide.php

You'll obviously have to check local prices for cost and delivery.

Wow, I'm impressed!

I think you can do much better by building a conventional building....then fooling around with stuff that wasn't intended to be lived in.....JMO.
Lots of "cabins/cottages/retreats/hunting camps", built around here based on a 24'X24" "garage kit"

The alarm goes off when i see stuff like this....as most people don't happen to have shipping container laying around....heck I can't even find a place to buy them around here......so would be out of reach for most people, skill and money wise.

I'm chalking it up to "Cool, thanks for posting, but not for me."

To take a look at his building process and some more pics check out the builders blog

seacontainercabin.blogspot.com

Very nice thanks for sharing. I noted the 12V system also.

Hi, people. I'm the original poster.
Thanks for the cool comments.

And thanks Very much, Nwoutdoors, for that link to:
www.seacontainercabin.blogspot.com
There are a Lot more pictures there of the project,
and Detailed explanations of the construction steps.
So, don't bother to look at my pictures, people...
Go directly to that blog to see the Entire story.

A Very well-done project, me thinks.

I am liking this, seems a good idea. Heck, you could even reinforce and bury some under it for preps storage and add on a locking garage to put any vehicles other than cars or trucks..... Double it and you'd have room in that garage for all of your vehicles. Bury a fuel tank and set fueling to be able to take place inside or outside of it and you'd be good to go.