BEFORE: A crane lowers a shipping container into place. – Tim Steele AFTER: The finished home by Tim Steele is clad in a wooden rain screen facade. – Tim Steele ...

Zack and Brie Smithey built their 3BR, 2.5 bath dream home in St. Charles, Mo., out of eight shipping containers. Now, they're helping others who refuse to be boxed into traditional notions of ...

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Designed by Backcountry Containers, the Modern Side Stack is located in rural Texas and provides a surprisingly spacious 900 sq ft (83 sq m) of living space thanks to the use of three high-cube ...

This extraordinary 900 sq ft home in rural Texas proves that shipping containers can be transformed into modern, livable spaces. Designed by Backcountry Containers, the Modern Side Stack is built ...

The first shipping container home is currently listed for $585,000. The median price for a home in Sioux Falls is $312,000, according to Realtor Association of the Sioux Empire.

A container home won't last as long as a traditional home. Because a shipping container is made of steel, it will have a tendency to rust over time. To keep the home lasting up to 50 years, you ...

The homes will each consist of five shipping containers, have three or four bedrooms and measure about 1,800 square feet. Each home will sit on a standard Chicago lot and is expected to be ...

If built, the houses, each made from five shipping containers, will be three or four bedrooms in 1,800 square feet built on a standard Chicago lot and priced at about $300,000, according to Darryl ...

Real estate agent Mark Monaghan, who recently listed a single-story 640 square-foot container home for $179,000, noted that younger buyers are particularly drawn to the concept.

Initially, the idea was to use prefab construction. This was to get around the issue of finding a local contractor to build the home. However, it gave rise to the idea of a shipping container home.

Homes made from shipping containers could be built and ready to occupy next year on a vacant stretch of the South Side, developers said Wednesday. Darryl Burton and Anthony Casboni, partners in ...