This customizable prefab container home can be set up in minutes and costs only $11k—but it looks better than many modern ...

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

We’ve featured a variety of different shipping container homes, from a quick emergency shelter, to LOT-EK’s container home kit, student housing, and even an entire container city in London. One ...

Founder, Michael de Jong came up the idea for the MEKA after years of building luxury homes in Belize, hiring Jason Halter and Christos Marcopoulous for the design. Michael states, “Many prospective ...

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Theres a lot to be said for paring life down to the essentials. If youve ever lived in a cramped shoebox apartment you probably discovered there are actually benefits to a simplified lifestyle: you ...

Sturdy, convenient to transport and relatively cheap – these are some of the factors that have made the conversion of shipping containers into modern living and working spaces an ever growing trend.

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There’s a reason the tiny home movement has been on a steady incline over the past few years. Tiny homes are affordable, quick to build, and increasingly well designed. The tiny home market was valued ...