• Container housing has just become a whole lot more legitimate, thanks to the work of one aficionado who is set on spreading the word.

Brenda Kelly has built her own 45 square-metre tiny container house in the bush at Parau, Auckland, and in doing so, she has become the pioneering owner of the first container house to achieve an 8 Homestar rating by the NZ Green Building Council.

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Kelly specified double-glazed UPVC plastic joinery, which provides a higher energy efficiency than standard double-glazed aluminium joinery.