The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.

In Ready Player One, the novel by Ernie Clines that was adapted into a 2018 Stephen Spielberg movie, protagonist Wade Owen Watts lives in The Stacks, a futuristic vertical trailer park towering ...

Container homes are here to stay: they're practical, modular, affordable, and downright stylish. With the right techniques and materials, a container home can provide a truly luxurious living ...

The hottest trend in real estate across the U.S. is a 40-feet metal box. Container homes are taking the country by storm, and now the trend has made its way to Tampa Bay. In an effort to save money on ...

BOISE — Last month on Keepin’ It Local, I took you to a factory in Caldwell where IndieDwell is manufacturing a new type of housing using discarded shipping containers. Those huge metal containers you ...

A Missoula company that turns metal shipping containers into ready-to-move-in homes has begun a limited run of its first model at a production facility at the old Bonner mill site. Montainer, a ...

Evan Lynam and Jo Burgoon were looking to downsize from their East Boise home last year when they stumbled on a new concept: homes made from metal shipping containers. They learned that a Boise ...

CITRA — Terri McFarlane's metal shipping container home project is stacking up nicely. "I'm looking forward to having an upper story, basement, a deck to sit on with neighbors and the decorative ...

Fort Wayne has more people than current housing can handle, and the population is expected to keep growing at a brisk pace, according to county data. The city’s population growth is more than double ...

Tiny living comes in many shapes and sizes, from adorable cottages on wheels and vintage buses to the more modern and flexible tiny pods and container homes. Also, the story behind these abodes is not ...