Why shipping container homes are overrated

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The ukranian refugee containers are not repurposed shipping containers. They are specifically made for this purpose. They were used in europe also as vaccination and covid test centers. You just lay them somewhere on the parking lot and voila you have a covid center. That said, they are accually affordable because from day one they are made for their purpose intead of renovated and adjusted which makes the shipping container houses less affordable.

I dont think anyone expected to buy a used container for 4k and not have to do a bunch more work.. even if you end up paying 15k for everything, that's a LOT cheaper than a house. Even with how small it is, it's a functional home they own, and for a lot of people that's amazing.

Putting 400 grand into a house and then paying mortgage for years after isnt as easy as it seems either right?

As a mechanical engineering undergraduate. It’s not really that impractical. They really aren’t that problematic just because you need to reinforce it if it’s modified. Literally every structure needs specific reinforcements when it’s changed due to the change in force application. Spending 4K per shipping container and a 2k welder you could get a lot done compared to standard housing costs. Architects aren’t engineers, so don’t rely on them so much for engineering specific questions. Usually architects are more into the form than function of a structure, while they still keep function in mind it’s not as pedantic as engineering analysis.

It would have been interesting / useful to see some price comparisons to other methods of building small homes.

I thought it was generally accepted that shipping containers are really only effective as the frame of a house or room. You aren’t just dumping one in a backyard and moving into it without major modifications.

Every house needs "reinforcements, a foundation, plumbing, & electric". If these are considered drawbacks then every modern house ever built is considered a "drawback".

There is something skeezy about a landlord who is running an air bnb behind an abandoned house in an overgrown lot and they drive up in a BMW.

As architecture professional, I would say that anything that gets converted from non-habitation into habitation will take a lot of extra work — hence will then be classified as “overrated” when ubiquitously hyped by the senselessness of mass media.

I'll admit, after living in a studio apartment, these shipping container houses don't look so bad!

This video just proved everything I already knew and was ready for I’m absolutely all in for shipping container home

I lived in a container for 3 months because of renovations. I liked it, it has enough space and honestly, if this was permanent I could decodate it nicely. If there is no alternative for me in the future, I would absolutely choose this as a place to stay.

My wife and I stayed in that exact unit in April! It was a lot of fun and the bathroom is even nicer than he described (the heated floors and big shower was so incredibly nice). The town of Warrenton, while small, was fun with a brewery, distillery, and a few restaurants within walking distance from the unit. I would certainly recommend staying there!

i really like how the owner of the airbnb admits that shipping containers take a lot of money to turn into a “home”

You have to frame a home so I don’t see why you can’t do that to a shipping container.

In the right hands, with a good architect, a shipping container home can be quite nice.

I would've liked to see the per unit area price comparison between building a shipping container house and a traditional one. I'm not convinced by this video that it's more expensive, just that it's less inexpensive than people who haven't done enough research thought.

Shipping containers as homes are just a reaction to the slow building of affordable homes. So people look for alternatives.

These are still cheaper than regular houses? I don’t think most people think you can just move into a shipping container without doing any modification, and if they do, they simply haven’t done any research. This argument did not prove its point.