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 ...

An area company offers an alternative to increasingly expensive single-family homes: building them from repurposed shipping containers.

Backcountry Containers has designed lots of different types of shipping container homes, from large residential units to smaller rural retreats. For its Luke tiny house, the firm connects a large and ...

As real-world assets gain traction, custom shipping containers offer investors flexible, tangible options for generating ...

We love the many intriguing space-saving features in this high-end tiny home. When it comes to small homes, shipping container housing seems like the option with the greatest potential to be ...

Repurposing shipping containers and morphing them into beautiful living spaces is a popular home trend at the moment. Due to their durability and movability, shipping containers have become a popular ...

ST. LOUIS – Just down the street from the Crown Candy Kitchen in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood sits a home for sale that’s hard to miss. A house made of nine former shipping containers stacked ...

Fort Wayne City Council has taken the first step toward using recycled shipping containers to build smaller, inexpensive dwellings. It’s a concept that has existed since at least the turn of the ...

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) – ...

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 the Fishers Nickel Plate District south of 116 th Street, developers have built dozens of modern homes on small lots where bungalows once stood. The custom and semi-custom 3-story townhouses ...