Glad to hear someone else does. =)
I was interested in those showing International Shipping Containers. Using it as a home based business. (season 1 episode 4) I agree that setting it up like the studio/off grid could lend itself to the ISC build. That would be the best of both worlds for me.
I was watching an episode of "Modern Marvels" with the title "Truck Stops" where in the show they looked at extended cab/living quarters on the big rigs. Basically a "Tiny Home" on a semi. One rig was driven by a woman and hers had a shower/toilet and a simulated "fire place" (like you may have seen at fast food places like Wendy's)
This is an example of the over sized "sleeper" Tiny Home that was shown. These cost up to $70K and have an onboard diesel generator for power. Drivers interviewed spoke of going on the road for three months at a time and living out of the rig....just like an RV. One big issue for the Truckers is not being allowed to idle their engine thru the night as they sleep so that they can have air conditioning. This prevents tons and tons of carbon pollution being pumped into the air.
Remember, these are commercial trucks/business vehicles. Thus they are "Capital Equipment" so the cost can be written off over five years as a "cost of business". Then they may continue to be used for some years afterward or sold.
After WWll the Government had Tiny Homes made for returning Vets who were going to various Colleges around the USA. This is a photo of some of them on my local College from 1945. The ones I saw as a kid were painted a flat grass green color. These were used thru the post Korean war era and then sold off to people who used them for hunting or fishing cabins on tracts of land that they owned. I think they were made by US Steel. These homes were generally the accommodation for married couples.
Later after the Korean war a company "Lustron" made these "enameled" steel homes that weren't very large. Sort of starter homes. There were many "Gas Stations" in that time built similarly of enameled metal.
