Take Home Box

From: Pat Maxwell
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Length: 01:30

Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Yeah, and they’re looking pretty good. Read the full description.

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Playing: Take Home Box
From: Pat Maxwell

Isla_earth_inlay Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Yeah, and they’re looking pretty good. Those big shipping containers you see on the back of semi-trailers are in service up to ten years or more. Every few years they’re inspected, and when they’re too old for active duty, they’re sold, parked, stacked, and left to the wind and rain...Enter, a bold idea. Why not turn those containers into affordable homes?

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Piece Description

Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Yeah, and they’re looking pretty good. Those big shipping containers you see on the back of semi-trailers are in service up to ten years or more. Every few years they’re inspected, and when they’re too old for active duty, they’re sold, parked, stacked, and left to the wind and rain...Enter, a bold idea. Why not turn those containers into affordable homes?