The skyrocketing price of lumber is making people think twice about building a cottage. Saltbox is a Halifax-based company that has a sustainable solution to this problem — converting old shipping ...

Almost all of the fond memories of visiting my great grandmother as a kid included her going to the fridge to pull out a container of cottage cheese. This, of course, was usually accompanied by some ...

Montainer, a Montana company that transforms recycled cargo containers into backyard cottages, will show off one of its units in downtown Seattle starting tomorrow. The 200-square-foot home will be on ...

Colleen Lashuk's design for the the container cottage on Mira Bay. A Cape Breton Regional Municipality bylaw needs to be changed before the shipping container cottage ...

Not only can you make plant containers for yourself, but you can also craft them gifts for family and friends since the ...

Anchored at the Severn marina in southern Ontario's cottage country are two 53-foot-long shipping containers. They're the home of Joe Nimens — and the model for the year-round floating cottages he'd ...

The hotel is located on the seaside of Yokohama where the cottages were staggered randomly on the site, giving the resort as a whole an organic look. Not much has been done to the land where the ...

Whether one uses repurposed shipping containers or imported prefabricated and customised materials, the use of containers in construction of home and offices is on the rise for a number of reasons.

This innovative abode requires less building materials than traditional stick-built homes, making it a sustainable option for new cottages. The skyrocketing price of lumber is making people think ...