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It’s a steel! Company transforms SHIPPING CONTAINERS into luxury lodges, pool rooms – and even cricket pavilions

  • The company behind the transformations is Gloucestershire-based SteelPad, which charges from £17,000 
  • Features can include a railed roof terrace; wall beds, shower rooms and Bluetooth speaker systems
  • ‘Little daunts us in the joinery department and our attention to detail shows in our work’ – SteelPad

Fancy adding a bit of industrial chic to your property? Then you might like to consider a refurbished shipping container. Wait, hear us out.

Gloucestershire-based SteelPad Ltd takes run-of-the-mill shipping containers and turns them into dream glamping lodges, home offices, guest rooms, pool rooms, garden rooms, home cinemas – even cricket pavilions.

And as these pictures show, the transformations are amazing.

Gloucestershire-based SteelPad Ltd takes run-of-the-mill shipping containers and turns them into dream glamping lodges, home offices, guest rooms, pool rooms, garden rooms, home cinemas – even cricket pavilions

Prices for a refitted container start from around £17,000, for a garden room, and rise to around £59,000 for truly swanky accommodation

What’s more, the containers can be placed, within reason, at a choice and the company will site it using an ex-military container mover – and even help out should the customer want it relocated.

‘We can site in the Highlands or Spain. Have wheels, can travel,’ SteelPad told MailOnline Travel.

Prices for a refitted container start from around £17,000, for a garden room, and rise to around £59,000 for truly swanky accommodation.

SteelPad said that features and amenities it can fit include a sofa bed with pull-out table; ‘starlight’ LED lights; Bluetooth speakers; a railed roof terrace; bunk beds, wall beds and double beds, and shower rooms.

Want to experience a SteelPad container before you buy? Then check into this Airbnb near Stroud in Gloucestershire – a SteelPad container conversion for two that boasts a sofa bed, a shower with mains water pressure, large fridge, clothes hanging space, heating, and air conditioning.

SteelPad said that features and amenities it can fit include a sofa bed with pull-out table; ‘starlight’ LED lights; Bluetooth speakers; a railed roof terrace; bunk beds, wall beds and double beds, and shower rooms

SteelPad said it ‘has been formed as a two-tiered business to fill today’s need for bespoke joinery and to produce individually designed container living accommodation’

‘With a workshop full of equipment, little daunts us in the joinery department and our attention to detail and design shows in all aspects of our work,’ said SteelPad


The refurbished steel containers can be placed anywhere within reason and usually without the need for planning permission

SteelPad adds: ‘With over 30 years of experience as master craftsmen and a highly skilled team of joiners, electricians and plumbers, SteelPad has been formed as a two-tiered business to fill today’s need for bespoke joinery and to produce individually designed container living accommodation.

‘With a workshop full of equipment, little daunts us in the joinery department and our attention to detail and design shows in all aspects of our work.

‘Our contained living offers simply stunning, intelligently and individually designed home offices, guest rooms, pool rooms, garden rooms or rentable accommodation. Lock up and leave, usually without the need for planning permission, and absolutely self-contained’

The design and build process is normally around two months. Visit www.steelpad.co.uk for more information.

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