A shipping container garage can be quick to set up, relatively affordable, and seriously tough. At its simplest, it's a steel box that gives you a dry, lockable place to park a vehicle or tackle ...

The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.

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