When Amy and Shane Cargo chose to invest in a shipping container as their dream home, neighbors of all kinds lent a hand to construct the 1,500-square-foot home in Mosier, a small city in rural Oregon ...

FERNDALE, Michigan – Its two-story, modern design stands out in the older neighborhood of many ranches and bungalows. Inside the front door, a floating staircase tailored from wood and steel leads up ...

The shipping container home could offer residents an affordable option in an increasingly pricey part of the city.

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

Walking through the 8-foot by 40-foot shipping container, people talked among themselves, noting the large kitchen, pointing out the storage space and exclaiming shock at the sight of the full tub.

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When you think about buying a home—or even renting one for a short period of time—your mind likely ...

In Ernest Cline’s wildly popular novel, Ready Player One, people have been reduced to living in mobile homes stacked 10 and 20 high, bolted together with little more than rivets and bubble gum. Now, a ...

This post originally appeared on The Wayward Home. Click through the gallery above to see nine model home styles currently on the market. Shipping container homes are an affordable and eco-friendly ...

The typical cost range to build a container home is between $25,000 and $250,000. Some of the factors that affect container home cost include the size of the home; labor and permit costs; foundation ...

The next time you walk into a sales center at a new home community, you may be stepping into a shipping container. In the latest twist to reusing shipping containers, Marketshare, a company that ...

Developer Quinn Strong sees steel shipping containers as the building blocks for future development in Cape Girardeau. But that future could be in jeopardy. The Cape Girardeau City Council earlier ...