A tiny home is affordable mainly because you do not really need much to build one. Whether you decide to buy an already-made model or create it from scratch, the price is still much lower compared to ...

Tiny houses can come in various types and sizes. Some are made of trailers, some are modular, while some are a bit unusual, such as shipping container ones. When we think of shipping containers, 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, ...

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 ...

Studio H:T's Shipping Container House is, unsurprisingly, a house made from shipping containers - at least partially. But perhaps most impressive about the design is that it operates entirely off-grid ...

Josh McBee first saw a shipping container home online one day in late 2012. His one-bedroom apartment in Venice Beach, California was feeling progressively smaller, and the blue guest house he saw ...

The use of shipping containers in residential builds is quite popular nowadays, and with good reason: there are untold numbers of the waterproof and durable metal boxes available, so why not put a few ...

A house in St. Charles built of reused shipping containers surprised even its real estate agent by selling quickly. “I was a little nervous, to be honest,” said Annie Van Broeck, the Re/Max All Pro St ...

Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked ...