I have often speculated about using shipping containers cheaply to create a home office or to clear space in your house in order to move your office to that space. I did not think it had to be ugly or industrial. I did not think it had to be cheap.
This point, I believe is proven by a recent article in The Oregonian about a man named Mike Corvi turning an 8' x 20' shipping container into a cabana in his back yard for about $8,000.00 fully renovated.
He hired a couple of skilled builders - one with metal-welding experience, to start cutting out windows and doors. They added high-end dual-pane Jeld-Wen wood window and sliding glass door, carved out a small front porch with a corrugated metal roof and wired the entire structure for electricity, cable and heat. His brother-in-law, helped him design and build an interior wood frame separate from the outer metal shell, allowing for a crucial half-inch of air circulation. It is anchored in just one place on the roof and one on the floor. He attached two inches of rigid foam insulation to the inside of the wood frame and finished the interior with birch plywood paneling. Corvi estimates that the insulation grade for the walls and ceiling is about R-20.
WOW! I love the photos. How neat your home office-what a wonderful place to work and think!
Deirdre G
Posted by: Philippines property | December 16, 2009 at 04:19 AM