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The growing trend of re-purposing shipping containers is taking the world by storm. Only a few years ago it might have been considered an outrageous idea to the average home owner, who imagined life inside a metal box. Of course the incredible ideas people are coming up with have put that old image to rest. New and experienced home owners alike are designing and buying their own container homes, opening brand new container contained offices and even retrofitting these recycled boxes into state of the art refrigeration units.So where are people getting these wild container ideas?It comes from the new type of freedom which retrofitted shipping containers allow for. Where once you either had to buy an existing, traditional house with a set shape, or wait nearly a year for one to be built to your specifications, now you can have a new home of almost any shape and size delivered to you in a matter of weeks. Flexible Container Ideas to Maximise Any Space Want to open a new store somewhere but there isn’t enough space to accommodate your particular vision, these containers could well be the solution to your woes. They’re ideal for office space and customisation because you’re able to make a store or office exactly the size and scale you need it to be. If you can only get a small area of space to open your store then why not stack your containers up high and get the most out of that space? Of course they are also excellent for storage and in the same way can be scaled to your requirements. Their durability and ease with being transported make them ideally suited to this task, but arguably the place where people have become the most creative with their container ideas is when using them either as homes or creating features for their homes. In some cases all one needs is the durable frame itself. The walls of your storage container can easily be remove and refitted with other materials. This is why they so easily stack onto one another as well.    

If you’re looking for inspiration on how to design the interior of your shipping container home or office space, then you’re in luck. The concept is trending so strongly that the internet abounds with magnificent concepts to suit any particular taste. From hardwood floors to hot tubs and full glass panels replacing the steel walls, there is an abundance of creativity exploding onto the home container scene. The first question to answer before considering how to style your container is what sort of overall theme you’d like to pursue. As with any traditional home, this can mean an Eastern or Asian theme, but a shipping container home is also a celebration of eco-friendliness, which gives you some unique options. The overall durability of the containers, due to their steel forged origins, also means you have separate load baring panels bonded together which can support their own individual features each. Unique Ways to Style Your Container After you’ve got that idea down, you need to consider any special features you’d like in your home. One can create independent cubes or connect them to create a larger scale feature such as a huge glass panelled hot tub/swimming pool, or an internal garden. Pinterest is a veritable smorgasbord of ideas ready for you to dive into on this topic. Take what catches your eye and combine it with other elements to create your ideal home. There are even companies which have been started up entirely around the idea of how to style your container home, and they’ve done some ground breaking work which you can look into. Remember to carefully consider the internal size of your container home. That’s the starting point for any interior design so discover what you want most and how much space you would need to achieve it. From there it’s a simple matter to explain to a professional in the sale and maintenance of shipping containers to discuss your requirements with them and get great feedback. Contact Container World today!

Homes By far the most creative home container designs employ multiple containers with walls cut away to extend the amount of living space. Ceilings can be extended in the same way by stacking high quality containers one top of one another. Virtually any overall shape and design can be achieved. Adding a modern entryway with a veranda is a popular style while container walls can be cut away and replaced with wall to wall glass panes for that modern look and feel. Ablution Facilities Stacking two or three containers alongside one another can make a convenient, inexpensive and high quality ablution facility, but the versatility of the product means that there are things you can do to maximise any space limitation. Turning containers lengthwise, for example, allows you to fit more in a row. Refrigeration Installing refrigeration technology such as “blast-freezers” into containers is straightforward, convenient and allows one to store temperature sensitive goods onsite while conserving space and resources. For the production of ice or the storage of a few essential items, a single container may be enough but one could even construct a small container design refrigeration facility by adding several together, having had their walls cut away and merged. Office As with the home options, these are virtually limitless which means that regardless of your staff size or amount of equipment, you’ll have all the space that you need. By combining containers vertically, horizontally or both, one can create an expansive facility with multiple entry points, bathrooms or anything else required. Container designs vary to an almost infinite degree. In a way, it’s reminiscent of Lego blocks and the manner in which your structure could take any shape. Containers allow this same freedom with a solid integrity and far lower cost than traditional structures – so let your imagination go wild.