Closing thoughts Building your home from shipping containers is indeed a possibility. However, there’s a lot of work and sweat that’ll take place behind the scenes.

The trend grew and shipping container homes are popular even today. In case you're not totally sold on the idea of owning a ...

What Is a Shipping Container Home? A shipping container home is a residence that uses a gently used or one-time-use shipping container as the exterior shell of a home. Instead of building a ...

Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable?

In recent years, some companies have gotten creative and started building homes out of unused shipping containers.

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 ...

On the South Shore, a couple tasks their designer with modernizing a pond-front home while preserving its cabin vibe.

Something unique is coming to the Sioux Falls housing market this summer. In June, the first home made out of shipping containers will be ready for move-in.

Money issues aside, the Starburst House is a beautiful, albeit theoretical upgrade on the container home. Located just one mile from the entrance of the Joshua Tree park in the Mojave Desert ...