Eastside Container Home in Austin, Texas

Overview of the Eastside Container Home

The Eastside Container is a sleek and modern shipping container home located in Austin, Texas, United States. During your vacation stay, you'll have the entire shipping container home to yourself. The steel container home is located in central east Austin. This fully functional shipping container home has a contemporary and industrial architectural design with several unique features, to include a 40-foot steel shipping container, metal floors, and original wood and a tri-panel set of 8-foot doors that slide and pivot to open the living room to the outdoors.

Interior Features and Amenities

The shipping container home has recessed lighting, wood walls, and wood countertops throughout, lots of windows, high-quality leather furniture to complete this cozy and inviting modern home design. The shipping container home allows for 30-day rentals. Although the shipping space is small, there are several amenities to include a full kitchen with stainless steel appliances, a full-sized bath with a custom tiled shower, LED flatscreen Smart television with cable, full washer, and dryer, queen-sized bed and an outdoor deck with a completely fenced in yard.

Exterior Design and Location Benefits

You'll be sure to love the design of this modern shipping container home inside and out. From the exterior, the shipping container is painted a vibrant blue with a wooden accent wall and wooden stairs and patio that lead into the tiny house design. Inside there are modern stainless steel appliances and everything you need for a comfortable stay. During your vacation stay the shipping container home has all the linens, towels, dishes, and cookware provided along with coffee, soaps, and bath products. The shipping container home is located inside a completely fenced in compound that has a private driveway, a parking spot, and a security gate. You'll love hanging out on the Eastside. This is a small house living at its finest. Guests to the Eastside shipping container home will have complete access to the entire tiny house and yard, nothing is shared.

Host Availability and Local Attractions

The hosts of the Eastside shipping container home are long-time residents of Austin and are available to recommendations, offer tips, and general guidance if needed or they can also be completely invisible if you prefer. The Eastside Container is conveniently located in the heart of East Austin, close to downtown, the MLK train Station, UT campus, to include UT's basketball, baseball, and football stadiums. The shipping container home is very convenient to many restaurant bars, and live music venues on E. 6th St., Manor St., E. 11th St. and the Red River district. The shipping container home is close to some of the best barbecue joints in the state to include La Barbecue, Franklin, Mueller's, Mickelthwaite Kerlin and Sam's.

Transportation Recommendations

During your vacation stay in Austin at the shipping container home, it is highly recommended that you have a car, as the public transportation system in the area has something to be desired. That being said, you are just a 10-minute walk to the MLK train station which runs to and from downtown Austin but not too late. It is a short drive to downtown Austin or UT, less than 5 minutes, or about a $6 cab or Uber ride.