Guest Post by Steven Schneider
Truth be told, I didn’t choose to build with shipping containers because I like the look of them. I’m also not trying to save the planet by recycling them – not that there’s anything wrong with that. Rather, I felt forced into it by the continued theft and damage at my property in northern Wisconsin. What I really wanted was just a small log or timber frame cabin, but that was not to be.
I had long been planning to replace my old hunting shack with something a little bigger and nicer, but had been discouraged by an incident a couple of years ago, when someone broke into it and started a fire with a kerosene lantern. I was fortunate that they put it out with a fire extinguisher I had there and that no one got hurt, but that was the last straw. I began searching the net for ideas on building a more secure cabin, and was intrigued to find that others were using shipping containers. From a security standpoint it was near perfect – I just had to figure out how to make it work for me.