It's time to get creative in the housing market.

And that's just what some architects have done.

Across the world, resourceful home designers are turning to a new building material to create their designs: corrugated steel shipping containers.

Yes, you read that right.

The box-homes can be a structure made from one container, with everything essential for living stuffed inside, or the containers can be used in a number of other ways, including window fronts.

This post originally appeared at Curbed.