Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cargo container house. A shipping container home is a residence that uses a gently used or one-time-use shipping container as the ...

Matt & Paiton built a 45-ft high cube shipping container home for only $20,000, despite having no building experience. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Airbnb made a big push to promote homes that fit within unique categories—caves, treehouses, windmills—investor Ryan Duffy, ...

In this economy, downsizing makes sense for a lot of reasons besides environmental concerns. That’s not to say, though, that the rich can’t put a very artsy spin on downsizing – and this is exactly ...

Container home conversions start with modular construction and end with a tiny house nobody expected to feel this much like home. These 11 families converted a container home, a prefab home, a cabin ...

Explore the challenges of shipping container architecture, from limited dimensions and thermal performance to structural ...

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 ...

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

All too often, we assume that the container in which we work and live is imposed on us rather than something we craft. In reality, we play an essential role in building and strengthening the ...

When Airbnb made a big push to promote homes that fit within unique categories—caves, treehouses, windmills—investor Ryan Duffy, 41, knew he had to capitalize on the moment. He didn’t have a cave or ...