Do you have a talent that is big, and also takes up a lot of space? Do you daydream about having your own studio? Does your current home not provide you the space you need? How about a storage container?
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You love to hunt. You don’t have a cabin on your land. Enter–the connex box. Drop a container on your land, add in a door and some windows and you have a perfect hunting retreat.
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So, you either have a container or are going to buy a container and you want to paint it. But what all is involved? Like all painting projects, planning! Today we will explore why you might want to paint a container and how to go about painting it.
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You need more storage space. Maybe a car, general garage storage, a boat, a convertible you only get to use part of the year, snowmobiles, jet skis, bikes, tools, etc. And your garage isn’t cutting it anymore either at home or at the cabin. You need a container garage.
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Ken Block, co-founder of DC Shoes and professional rally driver, built this 12,000 square foot building to house both his creative office and a workshop for his team’s race vehicles. The 17 storage containers inside the building are used for office space, conferencing space and in his workshop.
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We have talked about what size container, how you want it delivered and even if you should put blocking under your container, but we have not talked about one of the most important things you should do before you get your container—prep your container delivery spot.
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You want a nice, dry container, but exactly how does that work with container floors. Today we’re going to explore that in more detail.
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Hot steamy summer? Heat up a little more inside a container. Freezing cold outside, aside from stepping out of the wind, containers are no warmer on the inside. So how do you work around this?
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Check out today’s video, courtesy of BigSteelBox. This video from one of the large container manufacturers in China shows the construction of a container from start to finish.
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Do you need more space on your farm for anything from outbuildings, processing shops for poultry, game or even meat smoking, additional equipment storage, hay storage and more? Maybe a container is what you need.
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I was recently talking to a customer about moving around 20' containers and different ways to do that. He was asking how we do it, what kind of equipment we use and what options he would have to move them around himself.
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Today’s post comes from a Super Cubes client in Florida, Sterling Cox, founder of Southworth LLC, who is converting a one-trip 20' container into a prototype living space, to be used as a production model.
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We purchased a 20’ one-trip container from Super Cubes, with the idea to convert it into a shed for garden implements, seasonal storage (swapping bicycles for a snow-blower), lumber, and camping and rec gear.
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LightHouse premiered their 20' container hotel room at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. LightHouse is "an urban ecotourism beacon and postcard for sustainability." Alchemy Architects, the builders of WeeHouse, led the project. The added bonus—the container came from Super Cubes!!
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Victoria Burrow in Victoria, MN features street food and drinks served out of our shipping containers along with a wide range of fun activities—axe-throwing, mini-golf, bocce ball, virtual reality, an arcade, darts, bean-bag toss/corn hole, oversized Connect 4 and more!
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Container homes are popping up worldwide. Today we’ll explore homes in Chile, France, and Canada.
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You’ve got the plan in your head—get a container, add doors, windows, or other simple improvements, and then you have your container office, shop or cabin. You’re handy, know your way around a do-it-yourself project, but where to start?
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Fire departments around the country look for useful, safe, cost-effective ways to practice fire training. One good, reusable option—containers. The containers provide a steel structure that can easily be modified to recreate real-life situations and the containers can be burned over and over again.
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Taking a cargo container and turning it into something else—living quarters, emergency relief shelters/centers, storm shelters, etc, is a very popular idea. You can picture what you want it to look like in the end, but how do you get started on your project?
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Today I have two examples of gorgeous uses of containers. Both are amazing examples of how bringing in an architect to create the perfect balance of form and function to create memorable, private spaces.
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