A friend of mine started a music festival in the bush a few years ago with a few buddies and is now looking at setting up cheap accommodation for campers who don't have or can't be bothered with the whole tent/caravan thing. He told me about some massive concrete pipes that you could convert into weekend sleepers for peeps - probably similar to the lockers at train stations that I've heard about in Japan.

I was thinking about this and had this mad thought about building and living in a shipping container complex. Knowing that this is a good forum for sharing concepts with other crazy people I thought I'd put it out there for some more ideas.

My idea is simple: get some land near a beach and get 8 shipping containers and build a luxury home - it could look something like this:

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Here's another weekender type:

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I'd probably even build a shipping pallet walkway through the bush to my home:

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Are there any building/design type people here who have any other ideas on simple housing ideas?