Shipping Container tiny Office Building
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| Gaynell Larsen ham radio operator J79WWW with good coffee. |
The coffee shop is tucked into about 1/3 of a 20 foot container at ground level. The building is constructed from 3 containers.
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| The interior of the small coffee shop in the right side of lower side of shipping container |
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| Coffee shop menu |
The menu is in Caribbean $. About 40 cents in US currency. You can get in town delivery for about 80 cents US.
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| Small office and retail space building made from 3 Shipping Containers in Roseau, Dominica. |
You can see here a clever idea - the top container extends over the coffee shop and provides the roof area. A small garden and seating area is built in front of the coffee shop.
The other sections of the are small rental office spaces and a small conference room. It looked like about 6 offices were available and all done very nicely with A/C. You do not need heat on this beautiful Caribbean Island.
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| Small office and retail space building made from 3 Shipping Containers in Roseau, Dominica. |
Looking back at the coffee shop where you can see the top container being used as roof for front of the shop.
The railing you see over the container is where a small outdoor seating area was made with a roof overhead to be used by the tenants and their guests.
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| Small office and retail space building made from 3 Shipping Containers in Roseau, Dominica. |
The deck and seating area described with the photo above. It is nice with room for a dozen or so people. This also provides the access for the 3 offices on this level.
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| Small office and retail space building made from 3 Shipping Containers in Roseau, Dominica. |
Looking off the back side of the deck we can see the other offices in level one and two.
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| Small office and retail space building made from 3 Shipping Containers in Roseau, Dominica. |
I could not actually get in the offices but took this photo through the window of the door and you can see it is very attractive.
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| One of the main streets in downtown Roseau , Dominica - The Container building is just to the RT of this photo. |
Look carefully and you will see a typical Dominica tiny house just over the roof of the while auto. The streets are very narrow and with autos parked on both sides there is barely room for one car to drive down the street. Look closely and you will see the ocean at the end of the street.
The island is still recovering from hurricane Maria in 2017.
We have visited the island 32 times in the past 23 years. Our purpose has been to help with Disaster preparedness communications.
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| Cobblestone walkway in place for hundreds of years in Dominica. |
The island is a mix of old and new buildings. The island historically over the past 300 or so years was dominated back and forth by the French and British. Most recently it was a a British Colony and the dominate language is English.
In this photo you can see some of the cobblestone sidewalk that has been in place for hundreds of years.
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| Port Roseau in Dominica. |
You can see in the photo a cruse ship in port at Roseau. The ships make a 9 hour day stop, however, they are an important source of income for the island folks.
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| David Larsen Blog Author |
"by David Larsen" Chantilly Farm owner, Computer Historian, and amateur radio operator -KK4WW & N4USA . I work out of one of the Tiny Homes at Chantilly Farm. A great place to work if you like the to be out in nature. I am 81 and ready to sell Chantilly Farm - I have a few more projects I would like to do - if you have an interest to know more give me a call. 540 392 2392
