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portable, affordable, beautiful smart homes
Boxouse is the product of curiosity and mishap by Luke and Heather. They build beautiful, sustainable, portable, affordable houses for everyone. Inspired by portable, modular shipping containers and fed up with paying rising rents in San Francisco for non ideal housing they set out to redefine the landscape in which they lived and rethink housing for modern aspirations. Boxouse started on a vacant lot in 2013 and quickly grew into a community of friends who all shared a common goal of experimenting with sustainability and building. They still run all their production out of beautiful Oakland California. Their catalogue offers a variety of houses from minimal to a luxe edition with wheels, solar and full utilities.
Boxouse was a startup focused on portable, small housing (shipping-container based) giving affordable, small housing in shared environments. The project is described as having been funded and operated with a YC-backed background, but ultimately the business did not sustain financially and is now out of business.
The concept involved converting shipping containers into small housing units (boxouses) with options ranging from largely unfinished to CA-permitted factory-built housing. Production included on-site installation, modular components, control over interior finishes by customers, and a process that attempted to scale rental and sales across small, private living spaces.
Who it’s for: Potential early-stage renters and small-space enthusiasts seeking affordable, portable housing; developers or investors exploring factory-built housing and container-based living concepts.
funding (Y Combinator) and revenue activity noted; business ultimately out of business
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