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 ...

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 ...

The trend grew and shipping container homes are popular even today. In case you're not totally sold on the idea of owning a shipping container home, check out these ten inspiring projects that we've ...

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Cargo containers, long a staple of international trade, are designed to be affordable, sturdy and water-tight. So it’s no surprise that for decades they’ve been used by the military, the needy — or ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids company that gives old shipping containers new life as pools, homes and other living concepts is expanding. Blox CEO Chris Van Doeselaar expects to open the ...

Shipping containers, once primarily used for transporting goods, are now emerging as an innovative housing trend in metro Detroit. A new development of single-family container homes on Detroit's east ...

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