Shipping containers have become trendy statement homes, sustainable solutions to a need for housing, and durable replacements for traditional homes at risk from climate change. Myriad variables go ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ultimately, they decided on the most cost-effective choice: a home made out of a used, rent-to-own, 40-foot long shipping ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Shipping container homes aren't a new trend, but with soaring real estate prices, they're having their ...

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) – ...

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI -- A local developer is building luxury-style homes out of shipping containers in Ypsilanti Township. Darius Smith, founder of ASJ Homes and the What’s Up Detroit show, is ...

When the cost of a single-family home hewn from wood and traditional construction materials is out of reach for many low-income Phoenix residents, and hell, some middle-income earners too – the ...

IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is extra-special—it’s designed by Travis Price Architects in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lexi and Diego Newkirk built a two-story shipping container home on their land in Texas. They invested about $100,000 in the home, ...

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 ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH — The most talked about home in Lake Worth Beach these days is a shipping container. Roger Bennett, a former public relations executive for Ford Motor Co., is building a two-bedroom, ...