Shipping container homes aren't a new trend, but with soaring real estate prices, they're having their moment in the spotlight. For potential homeowners looking for a potentially cost-effective ...

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In Ernest Cline’s wildly popular novel, Ready Player One, people have been reduced to living in mobile homes stacked 10 and 20 high, bolted together with little more than rivets and bubble gum. Now, a ...

Are shipping container homes actually good for the environment? The reality is more complex than it appears on the surface.

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MB Architecture was commissioned to design a vacation home for a family of five on a limited budget. The firm used six shipping containers to create a four bedroom house that it says was significantly ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Walking through the 8-foot by 40-foot shipping container, people talked among themselves, noting the large kitchen, pointing out the storage space and ...

Completed in March 2019, this modular home in the East Hampton town of Amagansett, Long Island encompasses a kitchen, four bedrooms and three bathrooms within 1,800 square feet of living space. Four ...

Backcountry Containers specializes in turning shipping containers into tiny homes on wheels. The Texas-based company got its start in 2016 when founder Jon Meier found interest in the tiny home ...

Explores a mix of housing solutions, including ADUs, container homes, and modular. Join the Brick by Brick team of solutions journalists as they look at three more supply-side responses to the housing ...