For Zack and Brie Smithey, the smell of old tires will be forever associated with home. "It reminds me of the beginning stages of the construction here," he said, in the couple's dream home in St.

A Texas couple spent $60k building their dream home in a charming rural area near their big city hometown — using just two 40 ft. shipping containers. Lexi Newkirk, 24, and her husband, Diego, 25, ...

Three 40-foot steel shipping containers are soon to become home sweet home for Englewood couple Kathryn and William Birkholz. Three 40-foot steel shipping containers are soon to become home sweet home ...

It’s a novel concept and new to Cedar Rapids. Can investors and contractors turn old steel shipping containers into a single family home someone would want to buy? That question could be answered in ...

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 ...

Adventurous individualists are often drawn to small homes, and the really adventurous ones, like Bill and Kathryn Birkholz, build their own. They’re still settling into their shipping container home ...

James “Jimmy” Thompson lay awake on concrete, hoping he’d be able to fall asleep – praying even more he’d wake up in the morning. His feet, hobbled and pained from living on the street, were a ...

MIDWAY CITY – Advocates for the homeless got a first glimpse Friday of the innovative Potter’s Lane housing development that will transform cargo shipping containers into steel-frame, private living ...

Kicker Kalozdi was driving down Dryades Street in New Orleans about a year ago when he saw a home built out of shipping containers. The idea so intrigued him that he stopped. By sheer chance, the ...

It measures only 8 feet by 8 feet. But to Stephen Smith, the tiny red house in North Hollywood is the place he calls home. Until early last month, Smith had been living out of his car in locations ...

The brand-new Girls Athletic Leadership School campus, an all-girl school and the first school in Los Angeles County made entirely of shipping containers, opened this semester in Van Nuys. It consists ...

Two entrepreneurs who have spent their careers fixing up old houses for resale have constructed a home out of six shipping containers. Matt Jakstis, 28, and Jonathan Sanders, 31, said the idea behind ...