A Colorado Firefighter Built His Own Shipping Container Home, and Found a New Calling Along the Way
Nine corrugated steel boxes form the basis for a multigenerational prefab house near Denver.
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Making a house out of shipping containers sounds easy enough: Just snap up a few neglected boxes from a local junk dealer, rack ’em and stack ’em, and create a bit of old-school prefab magic.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi
Denver Post fine arts critic Ray Mark Rinaldi is a veteran journalist covering classical music, visual art, opera, dance and more.
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