10 amazing shipping container conversions
![The Coffee Box shipping container conversion.](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/COFFEE-BOX.jpg)
The old shipping container ain’t what she used to be.
Those utilitarian steel boxes are being given a new lease on life, with containers being converted for all manner of uses and purposes in recent years
Port Shipping Containers – just one of the companies fashioning the containers for other commercial uses – has created spaces you’d barely believe were once unglamorous metal tubs.
Here are 10 of the impressive designs, including the Coffee Box cafe (above).
Tough Mudder media centre
![Tough mudder shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TOUGH-MUDDER.jpg)
The Tough Mudder on-site media centre. Source: Port Containers.
Toto bathroom display suite
![Toto bathroom display suite](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TOTO-SUITE.jpg)
Toto’s bathroom display suite. Source: Port Containers.
Portable swimming pool
![Swimming pool shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/POOL.jpg)
Shipping containers are now being converted into easily transportable swimming pools. Source: Port Containers.
Juice bar
![Juice bar shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/JUICE-BAR.jpg)
One of the containers was turned into a juice bar. Source: Port Containers.
Murray’s Bar
![Bar beer shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HOP-BOX.jpg)
A pop-up outdoor bar by Port Containers. Source: Port Containers.
Decompression chamber
![Decompression chamber shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DECOMPRESSION-CHAMBER.jpg)
A decompression chamber was setup to be housed in a shipping container. Source: Port Containers.
The School Locker store
![School Locker shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SCHOOL-LOCKER.jpg)
The School Locker’s mobile uniform and school supply store. Source: Port Containers.
Portable cafe
![Shipping container cafe](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/BRIAN-HILTON-CAFE.jpg)
You’d hardly know this cafe began life as a shipping container. Source: Port Containers.
Fire training unit
![Fire training shipping container](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FIRE-TRAINING.jpg)
This shipping container was converted to help train firefighters. Source Port Containers.