There was an amazing, upscale home built from multiple shipping containers featured on Grand Designs. Here's an article about the house itself, sadly the episode doesn't seem to be on youtube:
> The overall aesthetics and forms of the house which is sculptural like marries beautiful into completely rural setting and with this very modest size house of just 1236sqft. provides everything that’s required to have a prefect family home.
http://www.archdaily.com/593806/grillagh-water-house-patrick...
I think this is the episode: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/on-demand/5...