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 ...

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

I’ll admit it: I’m a little obsessed with organization. Whether I’m making lists, spreadsheets and pie charts at work or employing organizational shelves, racks and dividers at home, the act of ...

Courtney Woods had a hard time relating to the characters in the books she read in school. As a teenager in South Shore, she said she gravitated away from George and Lennie in “Of Mice and Men” and ...

SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When Robert and Lynne Baer decided to build a boutique hotel, they wanted to try something different. So, they built it using reused shipping containers. “[We] repurposed ...

SPARTA, Mich. — Keeping a business alive in 2020 has been challenging. Starting a brand new one has been even harder. The Downtown Development Authority in Sparta hopes it make that processes easier ...