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 ...

Many people dream of downsizing into a tiny house or off-grid cabin to reduce their expenses and simplify their lives. But the process of making that dream a reality can be both tricky and expensive, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yes, I am from a generation when technology virtually did not exist. I barely looked at my store-bought toys, making holidays and birthdays a nightmare for my parents. As a child, my preferred toys ...

There’s something about shipping container buildings that gets people excited. Perhaps it’s seeing something so mundane and functional become beautiful and personal? Or witnessing Tetris-like blocks ...

Design junkies could barely contain their giddiness when plans were floated this past spring for an office building fashioned from shipping containers, slated for the hip, emerging North Loop in ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — It's a house that stands out. That's because it's made out of shipping containers. Now, it's finished and ready for the welcome mat. This story is not just of a neat house, it's ...

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 ...

A six-story building in downtown Phoenix is made almost entirely of shipping containers on the outside. On the inside, visitors will find vacation rentals with all of the essentials, along with a ...