'faircompanies' as a company name does piss me off. The design is cool and follows along with the shipping container designs but this looks a bit bigger on the inside (higher ceilings). The bummer about prefab is that it seems to be always much more expensive that stick built for the same size space.
I'll never understand the desire to live stacked on top of one-another like rats in cages.
I need room to breathe!
I've lived comfortably on a 32' sailboat, never been happier! Also spent a year or so in a small camper - no problem!
In both cases though I had room AROUND ME! I could go hang out in the boat's cockpit and see for miles!
The guy in the vid is the typical self-absorbed hipster. If he's SERIOUS about bringing that lifestyle to the US, he needs only visit Japan and Sweden. The Japs have the tiny space thing down to a science and the Swedes (IKEA, anyone?) have the "design" thing to fit western sensibilities nailed down pretty tightly.
The Japs have the tiny space thing down to a science
How about their "coffin" hotels! Scary. Yes, we love to camp and used to go to Mexico for extended periods and lived on Camp Pendleton at the San Onfre campground for a long time. We missed it once we moved to a nice house in Fallbrook, so went back there for six months.:)
Id never seen "capsule hotel" before, but... It's actually BETTER than what our sailors live in for months at a time!
On the USS Boxer, even the officers' (LT in The Boy's case) racks were 6-to-a-room, 3-up with the "aisle" between just wide enough for a standard folding chair.
Enlisted thought that sounded HEAVENLY - as theirs were stacked 4 or 5-high and there was barely enough room to roll over!
I got "the real experience"... They put me in with The Boy in a rack normally used by a guy who'd gone home early from the deployment. One of their roomies... well... The boy had some SERIOUS personal-hygiene issues - to the point that we'd put Vicks under our nose when he came in... Apparently they'd done everything but give him a fire-hose party, and that was being considered... This dude STANK like nobody I've ever known, left a cloud of funk behind him everywhere he went... He'd been repeatedly counseled but it made no difference...
Commanders -- IIRC - only had to share with 3 others (or maybe ONE? - I THINK it was 3)
Submariners typically "hotrack" - meaning 2 or 3 actually SHARE a single rack, with one sleeping while the other('s/s' are) on duty! Further, at least in the older subs I've seen, there were no privacy curtains or anything - just steel-mesh hammock-looking beds in row upon row.
'faircompanies' as a company name does piss me off. The design is cool and follows along with the shipping container designs but this looks a bit bigger on the inside (higher ceilings). The bummer about prefab is that it seems to be always much more expensive that stick built for the same size space.
ReplyDeleteIs reality catching up to sci-fi? Snow Crash?
The bummer about prefab is that it seems to be always much more expensive that stick built for the same size space.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that. I do know that modular homes are cheaper than stick built......?
I'll never understand the desire to live stacked on top of one-another like rats in cages.
ReplyDeleteI need room to breathe!
I've lived comfortably on a 32' sailboat, never been happier! Also spent a year or so in a small camper - no problem!
In both cases though I had room AROUND ME! I could go hang out in the boat's cockpit and see for miles!
The guy in the vid is the typical self-absorbed hipster. If he's SERIOUS about bringing that lifestyle to the US, he needs only visit Japan and Sweden. The Japs have the tiny space thing down to a science and the Swedes (IKEA, anyone?) have the "design" thing to fit western sensibilities nailed down pretty tightly.
The Japs have the tiny space thing down to a science
ReplyDeleteHow about their "coffin" hotels! Scary. Yes, we love to camp and used to go to Mexico for extended periods and lived on Camp Pendleton at the San Onfre campground for a long time. We missed it once we moved to a nice house in Fallbrook, so went back there for six months.:)
Id never seen "capsule hotel" before, but...
ReplyDeleteIt's actually BETTER than what our sailors live in for months at a time!
On the USS Boxer, even the officers' (LT in The Boy's case) racks were 6-to-a-room, 3-up with the "aisle" between just wide enough for a standard folding chair.
Enlisted thought that sounded HEAVENLY - as theirs were stacked 4 or 5-high and there was barely enough room to roll over!
I got "the real experience"... They put me in with The Boy in a rack normally used by a guy who'd gone home early from the deployment. One of their roomies... well... The boy had some SERIOUS personal-hygiene issues - to the point that we'd put Vicks under our nose when he came in... Apparently they'd done everything but give him a fire-hose party, and that was being considered... This dude STANK like nobody I've ever known, left a cloud of funk behind him everywhere he went... He'd been repeatedly counseled but it made no difference...
Commanders -- IIRC - only had to share with 3 others (or maybe ONE? - I THINK it was 3)
Submariners typically "hotrack" - meaning 2 or 3 actually SHARE a single rack, with one sleeping while the other('s/s' are) on duty! Further, at least in the older subs I've seen, there were no privacy curtains or anything - just steel-mesh hammock-looking beds in row upon row.
Not pretty. I've read about when they opened the hatches of the German subs when they returned from many months at sea. Bad, bad, bad.
ReplyDeleteWow, really nice apartment. I like its simplicity and elegance.
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