Darryl Taylor designs and builds shipping container homes.

By his own admission, Darryl Taylor stumbled into the business of designing and building container houses. A panel beater and painter by trade, he hit on the container home idea after he and his wife Bernice moved in together and needed storage space as well as a spare room. As he is quick to point out he is not an engineer but has always liked making and building things.

The original container prototype was half storage and half comfortable spare room. Soon after, Darryl was approached by someone from Blenheim asking if he would build one for him, too. More enquiries followed, and Darryl and Bernice moved to Cromwell from Invercargill to set up their budding modular container home business.

Darryl personally oversees each project and works closely with clients ensuring they get exactly what they want, whilst taking care of all the pesky legal paperwork around container home building consents and code of compliance.