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It exists because renting in Israel means moving often, involuntarily, and expensively (see The Why for the tenancy-law mechanics and the cost breakdown). The goal is narrow and practical: make each move cheaper, faster, and less physically punishing than the last, by storing belongings in the same standardized units industry already uses to move things at scale.

The name is a running joke — visitors ask whether it's a warehouse or an apartment — but the contents are meant as a straightforward reference for anyone who, like me, never realized this entire ecosystem was available to individuals.

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The system at a glance

Everything sits on the 600 × 400 mm grid, which divides the 1200 × 800 mm Euro pallet four-to-a-layer, which fits a shipping container. That chain of standards is the point — details in Interoperability.

Unit	Size (cm)	Footprint	Role
Eurobox	60 × 40 × 23	Euro 600 × 400	Everyday / shallow storage — the daily driver
Eurobox	60 × 40 × 34	Euro 600 × 400	Deeper loads, whole toolsets
Eurobox	40 × 30 × 17	Half-Euro 400 × 300	Small parts; two sit on one 60 × 40
ACL (attached-lid)	60 × 40 × 41	Euro 600 × 400	The moving box — hinged lid, seals, nests empty
Picking bin	open front	—	Grab-access during unboxing
Boltless shelving	60 cm deep	matches the box	Storage wall; flat-packs to the next flat
Euro pallet	120 × 80	—	Move-out unit — load it, jack it, roll it

Because the footprint is shared, the formats are interchangeable: pack into ACLs for the move, decant into Euroboxes for the shelf, and back again next time — no repacking to a different size, no re-measuring against the shelving.

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The manual

Start here

Doc	Covers
The Why	Israel's tenancy/rental-law mechanics, the real cost of a move, jurisdiction comparison
Euroboxes	The three sizes, the standard, why they replace cardboard
Interoperability	Global pallet / box / shelving standards by region — the map of the whole ecosystem

The containers

Doc	Covers
Attached-Lid Containers (ACLs)	The moving-specific box: hinged lids, seals, nesting empties, the trash-cart second life
Picking & Sorting Bins	Fast-access containers for the unboxing phase
Gastronorm	The same standards logic applied to the kitchen
Consumables & Inserts	Turning boxes into a restockable pantry system

The infrastructure

Doc	Covers
Industrial Shelving	Depth, beam length, boltless keyhole racking, decking, load, using the side face
Moving Equipment	Dollies, ratchet straps, improvised rolling cart
Pallets, Elevators & Biomechanics	Why palletizing is non-linear; why elevator depth dominates a move
Where's My Box	The QR-code inventory layer

The procedures (SOPs)

Doc	Covers
Standard Operating Procedures	The move as a two-node supply chain: consolidate, haul, deconsolidate, put away — plus the unit-load hierarchy
SOP: The Apartment Move	The core procedure, phase by phase — survey, consolidate, strike the racking, haul, put away, close out
SOP: Split Moves & Storage	When part of the load goes to a storage unit, business premises, or a gap between leases
SOP: Cold-Start Setup	Getting from nothing to the state the other SOPs assume, in the right order

Money, buying, and the bigger idea

Doc	Covers
Cost of Ownership	IKEA SAMLA vs. industrial: real prices, amortized TCO, durability & UV
Sourcing	Buying B2B industrial gear as an individual
The Shipping-Container Thesis	How the standards nest up to intermodal freight

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Tools

📐 Eurobox Logistics Calculator

https://danielrosehill.github.io/storage-container-calculator/

A single-page calculator that turns a pile of Euroboxes into logistics figures — useful before you buy them, and again before you book the van.

• Total volume in m³ and litres, from external dimensions
• Euro pallet loads (EUR-1 or EUR-6 half pallet) at a chosen max stack height, with per-layer layout diagrams
• 20 ft container (TEU) utilisation by volume and by pallet floor positions
• 3D models of each unit in the browser, with GLB download
• A4 PDF report to hand to a removals firm

No build step, no dependencies. Source: danielrosehill/storage-container-calculator.

🧊 Companion repos

Repo	What it is
eurobox-calculator	The calculator above
storage-box-3d-models	True-scale GLB models of Euroboxes, ACLs and picking bins

🛠 In this repo

Tool	What it does
tools/redact_qr.py	Batch-covers inventory QR codes and strips EXIF before photos go public
tools/make_composites.sh	Rebuilds the composite figures used on this page
pdf/build.sh	Typesets the docs into the PDF edition via pandoc + Typst

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Photos

Photos of the real system — redacted (inventory QR codes covered) and metadata-stripped — live in photos/, organized by theme.

The storage system

Industrial shelving

Moving day

Picking bins

Sourcing

Folder	What's in it
photos/sourcing/	The box supplier's yard, the shelving supplier's warehouse, pallet deliveries
photos/storage-system/	The storage wall, labelled Euroboxes, shelving, consumables
photos/picking-bins/	Open-front picking bins and wall hardware bins
photos/moving-equipment/	Hand trucks, dollies, carts, labelling tools
photos/moving-day/	Palletized/strapped loads, car loads, the lift
photos/extras/	Odds and ends

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Finished PDF

A typeset, printable edition is generated from the same markdown via Typst: pdf/warehouse-apartment.en.pdf (rebuild with pdf/build.sh). Photos are embedded throughout.

Status

• ✅ Docs — written, expanding.
• ✅ PDF — English edition builds from the markdown (pdf/).
• ✅ Photos — a redacted, metadata-stripped set is in photos/ (organized by theme) and embedded through the docs and PDF. Batch redaction tool in tools/.
• 🎥 Video — in progress; releases once the finished system is in place.
• 🌐 Hebrew — a Hebrew edition (pdf/warehouse-apartment.he.pdf) is planned.

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Thanks

YosiBox (יוסיבוקס) — Israel's largest and longest-running storage-solutions supplier. They took the time to explain a B2B system to a household buyer and walk through every model, which is a large part of why this project exists.

License

Docs & photos: CC BY 4.0. Code in tools/: MIT.