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 ...

Building a home from a shipping container is much like a large-scale Lego project. You can have an entire room delivered in one giant rectangular piece. Or, you can stack the containers together to ...

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.