Container House

I have not updated the blog in quite a while.  People continue to ask about the house and how I like living there.  I walked around the hous...

I recently received questions from Mike about building a container house.  His questions and my answers follow: 1.   What was your estima...

Progress is slow but it is progress.  I am painting the house with a light green paint to which I have added the silicon NASA beads.  http:/...

 Living Porch  The container house has been home for four months now.  We are still working inside and things move slowly.  This w...

Contruction was not finished, but we moved in December 11, 2010.  I noticed that date is 12.11.10.  I was curious and just looked back to se...

11/25/10 Thanksgiving Day!  While not much has changed as far as a picture could show, lots of work has been going on.  The HVAC unit has be...

9/23/10 Waincoting is from wood we had sawed roughly ten years ago.  It was from 125 year old, 125' tall pines.  It has been air drying ...

9/23/10 It has been a while since I last posted.  We seemed to be stalled and there was really nothing to post.  Electrical and plumbing wor...

The metal roof is now in place.  This view shows the covered entry.  The space for the covered entry was made available due to extending one...

If you noticed that there was no plan for roof trusses in the original drawings, you have just seen evidence of the unstable process of buil...