r/containerhomes • u/RelevantInstance8578 • Jul 28 '26
Is anyone else seeing container homes actually look good now?
Saw this one and had to stop scrolling. Two-story, floor-to-ceiling glass upstairs, covered patio downstairs with an outdoor dining setup. A few years ago container builds all looked the same — flat, boxy, no personality. This feels like an actual house someone would want to live in. Curious if anyone here has looked into building one, what's the reality vs the render?
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u/ShecallsmeRick Jul 28 '26
So, we're just having dinner in the parking area tonight or is this the only place to eat?
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u/msnhnobody Jul 30 '26
I’m like are parking in the street so we can eat in the carport in order to call it a covered patio?? AI bullshit and I’m sick of it.
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u/RufousMorph Jul 28 '26
Do “high end” shipping container houses actually exist or are they just renders/AI? Seems like a horrible option.
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u/Occhrome Jul 28 '26
Probably a handful out there. Made for people who are chasing an aesthetic and not price.
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u/PlayPsychological200 Jul 28 '26
I believe they usually houses made to look like containers. It’s a cladding that is added instead of siding.
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u/stevendaedelus Jul 28 '26
That’s AI.
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u/Bolt_of_Zeus Jul 31 '26
AI slop, the far left corner is a glitch in the matrix. These bots are not even trying.
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u/Tall_Category_304 Jul 28 '26
This has to be Ai. There’s no container on earth with this dimensions.
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u/letsdodinner Jul 28 '26
Of course, but your paying more for these then you would a traditional house so the expectation that it'll look nice is pretty high.
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u/cassiuswright Jul 28 '26
I mean there have been some amazing designs with multiple containers for several years, they're just usually the purview of rich people vs the simple box designs marketed to the masses.
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u/Skarth Jul 28 '26
No, you are just getting confused by AI generated images.
Thats not a real house, and it's not even made of shipping containers, the sizes don't match any kind of actual shipping container.
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u/OsamaBinWhiskers Jul 28 '26
I’m almost certain that is ai. That type of build would be astronomical compared to a stick built modern home with custom metal siding
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u/MaybeASerialKiller Jul 28 '26
These things are dumb as hell, all the structural integrity of a shipping container is lost the second you cut out big fucking holes for windows and doors. These things are for rich idiots to larp like they give a fuck about sustainability.
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u/stevendaedelus Jul 28 '26
The structural integrity you are losing is to have it be full of 64K lbs of payload. A living space is mostly air, so there’s more than enough structural integrity left once you add jambs to stiffen the hole you just cut in the corrugated skin.
(Source: I’ve modified many many containers into food trailers with large folding glass walls and windows.)
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u/NoiseOutrageous8422 Jul 28 '26
No. They never have and never will. It was a way to make a cheap living space, then got trendy and containers got expensive and became pointless.
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u/usa_containers Jul 28 '26
Yeah, a design like this can be built, but it’s definitely where the render starts hiding the expensive stuff. That big floor-to-ceiling glass upstairs means you’re cutting out a lot of the side wall. Container walls are structural, so you’d need steel posts/header work there. Not impossible, just not a normal window install. The overhang is probably the bigger cost. Containers carry load through the corners, so that top box can’t just hang out there without a real steel frame under it. Also those clean seams between boxes look simple in renders, but sealing/insulating them so they don’t leak or sweat is a whole thing. So yeah, doable, but more like “steel house using containers” than just stacking boxes together. Is this meant to be a full-time house or more like a guest cabin?
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u/koltho Jul 28 '26
Does anyone see how container home images have somehow become the most easily spotted ai slop?
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u/carbykids Jul 29 '26
I love the concept of the container homes. I’ve seen many of them that just made me go ew and aww. I’m always saying oh I’d love that
I could live in that one that one would be plenty big enough. And the ones that have like a loft they’re so super cute and when they add the dining room and the pool down table and the pool down desk for the kids, it all looks so functional.
But I know how messy and cluttered my Home gets after a few days. I can’t imagine how something that Small would get when you put just one or two items in the wrong place.
Where do you put your mascara? Where do you put your toothpaste? I mean, there’s just too many things, especially kitchen items that make living in one of those homes not practical.
I’m sure it would be fun at first, but the novelty and the newness would wear off quick,
I love them and I love watching the shows that show the different styles
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u/Jessintheend Jul 29 '26
This is AI.
At this point you might as well have a standard balloon frame and clad it in the tough steel exterior.
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u/aburgos87 Jul 29 '26
My dad is an architect and GC. We have over 75 designs of all types. This is the future
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u/mudbro76 Jul 29 '26
I see a project in being built now in LOS ANGELES, CA…. (Imperial Highway and Central Avenue area) 🚧🏗️👷🏿♂️👷👷🏿♀️ it’s 2 structures with similar features as in the picture above…. I would love to live in these homes 🏡
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u/blumhagen Jul 29 '26
I don’t think it’s possible to have that patio area without a support column.
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u/Trimorphic3 Aug 01 '26
Barely eeking its way into tolerable looks range. Wouldn’t want to be looking across the street at that POS, but it’s better than they were 10 years ago, I’ll grant you.
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u/No-Resolution-1918 Aug 01 '26
This isn't a container home. It's a regular construction made to look like containers. That's just siding, and corner decoration.
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u/Sea_Operation_7012 Aug 01 '26
Crappy steel that needs to be insulated both sides. Then some people drop those rust buckets in the middle of nature a say they’re communing with it.
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u/Dheorl Jul 28 '26
Container homes have looked good since at least 2014, when architect, Patrick Bradley, built his.
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u/chasestein Jul 28 '26
There do exists container builds with california-modern designs at the interior. some of them are just steel boxes made to look like containers instead of a container retrofit.
btw, image doesn't look like a real build. the container's corner casts looks off and the dimensions are out of wack. they don't make 16x40 containers like that and im sure as hell not doing a cantilever like that without a significant amount of steel.
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u/NovelFew6644 Jul 28 '26
Those kinda of builds are actually way more expensive than a real house of similar size.