Living Underground in a Doomsday Bunker / Shipping Container

As an avid prepper I long ago converted my wife into like thinking. She’s as much of a prepper as I am now and in some cases even more so. When it comes to a doomsday bunker that’s where we part ways. She has her mind set on not being able to live in a “coffin” as she calls it. Ideally I’d like to bury a couple of shipping containers that are built specifically for living in. I would be content with the top of the containers being maybe a foot up above ground level and letting a dirt berm or shrubs block the visibility.

My ideal shelter would have quite a few windows in that exposed area so you wouldn’t get that feeling of being buried. Even with that said she still doesn’t think she could live in it. I asked how that’s different than being in a basement with windows and she said it would feel more confined. With nearly 400 square feet of living space a shipping container would work very well and give ample room. If you had several of them there would be even more space.

So one of the big items to address if you are looking to turn a shipping container into an underground house is how it will be received by your family members. I obviously didn’t take the time to properly discuss it with her so she’d understand the details of living in a shipping container. I think had I taken time to talk more about things I’d do to make it a liveable doomsday bunker I’d have a much smaller hill to climb right now.

So assuming that I get past that I have started thinking about the ideal configuration for an underground bunker built from a steel shipping container. I think using 4 containers together would make for an ideal configuration. The goal would be to make living areas for 4-6 people.

With 4 of these you would have nearly 1,600 square feet of underground bunker space and 2 large living areas and 4 smaller areas. One large living area I would dedicate to a kitchen, food storage etc. The other large living area would be dedicated to a more family or group oriented room where similar to what a living room is now.

The 4 smaller rooms would probably amount to 2 or 3 bedrooms and one bonus room for storage and all the other stuff one would need to live underground for a longer period of time. With limited space it would need to be well organized but certainly a 1,600 sq foot bunker would work well.

The layout would be 4 of these staggered back and forth with a 50% overlap. The 2nds would start halfway up the first, the third would be the same as the first and the 4th the same as the 2nd. Giving you a center that is 20×40 and 4 nodes each of 20×10. In further articles I will discuss what I would need to stock an underground bunker and what items I would want in my storage cache for living underground.

Each bedroom would be 10×20 so there would be a good amount of space, the living room and kitchen would be 20×20 which is also very spacious. Between he kitchen and the living room would be a door and or pass-through or it could be completely open to make one large room. Ideally the entry way would be through the storage room and that would be the access point.

If you have any thoughts or ideas I would love to hear them.

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