In Ernest Cline’s wildly popular novel, Ready Player One, people have been reduced to living in mobile homes stacked 10 and 20 high, bolted together with little more than rivets and bubble gum. Now, a ...
Canadian company HonoMobo is taking the stress out of building a new home with its ultra-green, ultra-swanky shipping container homes that can be sent anywhere in North America. Designed to be move-in ...
The company designed three types of units with different layouts and sizes. The small 352 square foot HO2 house has an open planwith a full bathroom and functional kitchen. The HO3 knits three ...
We have written about Honomobo’s modular shipping containers being used by customers as homes, getaway cabins, and even multi-family homes. Now, the Canadian innovators are taking a shot at ...
KELOWNA – A new Kelowna company is introducing a potential solution to the current housing crunch: plug and play carriage suites built from shipping containers. “We’re going to build one in Kelowna, ...
A Kelowna company is hoping to make living small a big idea. Devon Siebenga, the owner of Honomobo, is showing off his shipping container homes to the Okanagan this weekend. They come in four ...
“About 50 percent of our business is laneway housing,” reveals Daniel Engelman, who helped cofound Honomobo five years ago, speaking to the Straight from his headquarters n Edmonton before heading ...
“You don’t get that cramped-in feeling. I step out of my house, walk 100 feet, and I’m climbing a mountain.” In 2016, Cathi Marshall and her husband, Trevor, saw a squat, compact shipping container in ...
Laneway housing is a relatively new concept in Edmonton, but changes to the city’s bylaws have sparked a mini-boom in these structures and prompted one local start-up to bring shipping container ...
Shipping container homes will soon be moving into back alleys across the city, if Daniel Engelman has his way. The co-owner of Honomobo is pitching the unconventional construction as a way to expand ...