Downsizing your life in order to live small sometimes requires creative ninja moves to find adequate storage.

Texas architect Jim Poteet helped Stacey Hill, who lives in a San Antonio artists’ community, wrangle an empty steel shipping...

In a far-flung desert destination, designer Barbara Hill does it again.

Building a small home doesn’t equate to easy lifting.

Every week, we highlight one amazing Dwell home that went viral on Pinterest.

For aesthetically beautiful minimalist, modern, and sleek design, less really can be more.

From city apartments to vacation rentals and boutique hotels, a daring and creative use of colorful paint, textiles, and other...

Need to free up space in your home? Here are some helpful storage ideas that may be quite unexpected.

Built for $200,000 and lowered into place by crane, a compact cargotecture office perfectly slots into an architect’s backyard.

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

From start-to-finish, prefabricated shipping container homes are revolutionizing the homebuilding process for the better.

We have seen shipping containers being repurposed for uses ranging from housing to hotels—so it's only logical that some...

Designed by one of America’s leading cargotecture proponents, this modern shipping container home in New Jersey is seeking a new...

A shipping container home tackles temperature control in a tropical environment.

The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park.

An attractive shipping container house shows the benefits of prefab living.

Not everyone has the luxury of having multiple bedrooms in their homes—but that’s nothing to lose sleep over.

Space-saving solutions from Room & Board beautifully make the most of compact bedrooms.

The nominees for this year’s Dwell Design Awards may be petite, but they pack a big punch.

Designed with simplicity, style, and storage in mind, the new Integrated Column Refrigeration series from Fisher & Paykel offers...

A book lover gives us tips on storing prized tomes.

From bookshelves to room dividers, these vintage furnishings perfectly balance function with flair.

There’s even a shipping container sitting in the kitchen.

This portable dwelling, made of two shipping containers, is ready for its next move.

These shipping containers have left their itinerant lives as vessels that carried goods around the world, only to be reborn as...

Inspired by cargotecture, this boxy dwelling in West Vancouver features an efficient layout that makes the most of its hillside...

Transforming ubiquitous corrugated boxes into sleek pop-up homes, shops, and shelters, Cocoon Modules is redefining what a...

Matt and Barbara Mooney worked with Michael Gooden of M Gooden Design, a boutique design firm in Dallas, to build a home out of...

Nestled in a tiny town off the coast, this container home echoes the main ingredient the owners had hoped for in a weekend...

We can barely contain our excitement over this year's awe-inspiring projects.

Three dozen shipping containers find a safe port in a modern apartment building in Mexico.

Architects, designers, and DIY enthusiasts craft inventive storage solutions beneath staircases where negative space usually...

A father-son architectural duo experiment with a compact, modular home with flexible furniture arrangements.

A family matriarch enlisted an architect, an interior designer, a builder, and a landscape architect to help realize her vision...

Dwell editor-in-chief Amanda Dameron walks us through Dwell's November 2016 issue.

A new prefab company represents the future of low-impact affordable housing.