![]() ![]() And the container was not orange when they went with Steele to pick it out. This particular container home, in Sullivan County, belongs to Robyn Volker, 57, and her wife, Anke Irmscher, 54. “It is why we leave the container exposed - it creates tension between movement and stability.” “You’re constructing something that we associate with the most stable thing in our lives,” said Steele, founder of Steele House, a firm that designs and builds container structures. In the kitchen, one wall exposed the bright orange corrugated surface of the Corten steel container, but elsewhere evidence of the structure’s origins was scant. The rooms inside these shipping containers might easily be mistaken for those inside any of the timber-framed homes in the hillside country here. Several tall windows looked out on the Catskill Mountains, a vista that stretched for miles. Beyond that lay an expansive living room, kitchen and small bathroom. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the corrugated walls. ![]() Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York City.
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