Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing ...

Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable? We are used to seeing shipping containers as a mode of transporting goods by land or sea. We see them on the backs ...

Building a home from a shipping container is much like a large-scale Lego project. You can have an entire room delivered in one giant rectangular piece. Or, you can stack the containers together to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When you think about buying a home—or even renting one for a short period of time—your mind likely ...

Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: The first of the shipping container homes will be ready to move in June 1, but is currently on the market. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – ...

IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is extra-special—it’s designed by Travis Price Architects in ...

Jen Sansosti says reading about shipping containers in the industrial port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was, in part, what made her want to live in one. She resided across the river in Brooklyn in 2007, ...