The open-concept main house is made of four shipping containers with floor-to-ceiling windows. Via a breezeway, there's a guest house that the couple designed themselves and rents out on Airbnb.

There’s a rumor floating around in the design universe that building a home out of shipping containers—those massive, corrugated-steel boxes that stack like building blocks on cargo ships and ...

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 ...

Shipping container dwellings are a spin-off of the popular “pole barn” homes. The containers are not semitrailers but built much stronger, to be used on barges, ships, and trains.

It’s not been the smoothest of journeys, but when complete, Shay Trader figures to have an architectural conversation starter ...

Matt & Paiton built a 45-ft high cube shipping container home for only $20,000, despite having no building experience. In this episode of DIY Tiny Home Build Stories, they share their clever use of ...

Custom Container Living has transformed a shipping container into an ultra-compact tiny house that squeezes a home for two into just 160 sq ft (14.8 sq m). Though certainly basic, it also doesn't ...

Exploring Alternatives According to the company's website, the Rising Sun shipping container house is for sale, starting at a base price of $85,000 and ranging up to $120,000 with upgrades.

“The contemporary, green appeal of a container house is an ideal complement to not only the submarket’s streetscapes but also the design preferences of urban buyers,” says Sunny Leu-Pierre, the ...

The house has become a local curiosity, and Butterworth often offers neighbors short tours. “Everybody wants a look, even door the Door Dash guy,” he said. Call the reporter at 317-444-6418.

Tiny house builder Escape is trying something different with the Vista C. As its name suggests, the dwelling is part of the firm's Vista line, but is based around a shipping container. It comes ...