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, ...

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

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Built by Backcountry Containers, the Vermont Villa shipping container house fits a sauna and plunge pool in its industrial ...

In this video, we take a look at 10 shipping container houses that mix innovation with sustainability. Some of them have been built from only one or two 20 ft shipping containers and some from 5 and ...

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

Design junkies could barely contain their giddiness when plans were floated this past spring for an office building fashioned from shipping containers, slated for the hip, emerging North Loop in ...

In this economy, downsizing makes sense for a lot of reasons besides environmental concerns. That’s not to say, though, that the rich can’t put a very artsy spin on downsizing – and this is exactly ...