Sustainability: Outside the Box Three Boone entrepreneurs are cracking the lid on container eco-homes In port cities rimming the united states, retired shipping containers are accumulating by the hundreds of thousands. It isn’t difficult to imagine them filled with myriad goods—from refrigerators and sneakers to PlayStations and exotic foods. But it’s much more challenging to [...]

http://www.highcountrypress.com/weekly/2009/08-27-09/dwellbox_matures.htm I can’t seem to make the link above hot, but cut and paste it into your browser, and it should read just fine!

Wow! It has been quite a whirlwind over the last week or so with so much change happening every day it is really tough to keep up with this blogging format. We are shooting for a final inspection Friday or Monday, and things are looking on track. There have been 10 plus people in the [...]

Container Home Stills

Exterior trim will be done today, sheetrock will be ready for paint on Friday, rooftop deck will be built by Friday. Our very excited client is looking to move in around Aug. 23. While we are very happy to be finishing up the Tad Asana, there will be no rest for the weary. DwellBox will [...]

Well, the time finally arrived. Insulators completed most of the Icynene installation yesterday. Painters have made serious headway as well. If all continues to move at this pace, sheetrock will start going up on Monday.

As usual, there has been a great deal of activity onsite, but unfortunately for you blog folks, not a great deal of visible change, hence not a lot of photo action. If it weren’t raining today, 1. I would be onsite, not in here writing this now, and 2. the painters would have been able [...]