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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

-- which has exhibited its small, modernist model homes at the annual Portland Home & Garden Show -- is building a five-home, small-lot development next to a manufactured-home park in Eugene. The ...