Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cargo container house. Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a ...

After they purchased a 21-acre plot of land in rural Summerville, GA, one couple set out to build their dream home on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI -- A local developer is building luxury-style homes out of shipping containers in Ypsilanti Township. Darius Smith, founder of ASJ Homes and the What’s Up Detroit show, is ...

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 ...

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

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 ...

At a typical home construction site, two-by-four beams build the skeleton of a home. Insulation and drywall complete the inner walls. A roof is placed on top; in Florida it’s usually made of shingles, ...

Q: Can You Put a Container House on an Empty Plot of Land in L.A.? A: Those HGTV shows make it look easy, but so far there are no legal single-family residences in L.A. that have been fashioned from a ...