The flooring is the original container flooring of 6-inch thick apitong wood. “Being inside you’d never know it’s made of containers,” he said.

It’s not been the smoothest of journeys, but when complete, Shay Trader figures to have an architectural conversation starter ...

Container homes are affordable, durable, versatile, eco-friendly, and have short construction times, making container home costs an attractive option for many.

“It was the first shipping container home completed in the city of St. Louis, but also for Old North, it was the first home that we had built in quite awhile,” Payne said.

Canadian company HonoMobo specializes in building ultra-green, ultra swanky shipping container homes that can be shipped anywhere in North America.

Backcountry Containers specializes in turning shipping containers into tiny homes on wheels. The Texas-based company got its start in 2016 when founder Jon Meier found interest in the tiny home ...

It has an attached garage, vaulted ceiling, big kitchen and two second-floor balconies. The second floor is carpeted, as is the staircase built into a shipping container that had been turned on-end.

Design and construct a scale model of a shipping container home using printed templates and estimate the cost of flooring and paint based on dimensions.