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 ...

This video compares the similarities and differences between shipping container conversions and tiny homes on wheels, focusing on DIY builds. It explores the pros and cons of each option for those ...

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, ...

Oasis in the heads is the name of this ensemble of different types of buildings, such as a shipping container, a tiny house, and a small pod cabin. The outside space between those three different ...

Which is better: container homes or tiny houses on wheels? This video compares a shipping container conversion to a tiny ...

Custom Container Living has transformed a shipping container into an ultra-compact tiny house that squeezes a home for two into just 160 sq ft (14.8 sq m). Though certainly basic, it also doesn't ...

While the tiny home movement started to gain ground in the early aughts, it’s only over the past couple of years that’s become a widespread phenomenon for a variety of reasons. Container homes ...

OAKLAND — When entrepreneur Luke Iseman looks at the massive stacks of red, blue and gray shipping containers that loom over the Port of Oakland, he imagines an end to the Bay Area’s housing shortage.

The Double Duo shipping container-based tiny house is not built from one container like we usually see, but two. The extra floorspace allows it to offer a roomy interior arranged around a large living ...

Jaimie and Dave Hinckle wanted a mortgage-free life, so they decided to build a shipping container tiny house. A few months into the build, Dave suffered from a major brain bleed. But the couple ...

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

After more than three years of planning, persistence, manual labor and financial investment in a dream that would not die, affordable housing activist Glen Gibellina wants the world to know about his ...