Closing thoughts Building your home from shipping containers is indeed a possibility. However, there’s a lot of work and sweat that’ll take place behind the scenes.

Beat rising costs with this affordable option.Obviously, on top of the cost of a built shipping container, you will have the land and foundation. The costs below are a breakdown of averages for ...

In addition, this home was built out of a high cube shipping container, which is one foot taller than a standard container, for a total of 9.5 feet.

Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable?

"When you're building a $100,000, $200,000 structure, that $1,000 to $2,000 difference between a new container and a used container is not really significant anymore," said Alex Rozkin, the CEO of ...

Lexi and Diego Newkirk built a two-story shipping container home on their land in Texas. They invested about $100,000 in the home, building a full-size kitchen and a luxury bathroom.