Here is one of the lower cabinets in my retro kitchen. I bought 50's metal cabinets and had them painted at an auto body shop in cobalt blue. They turned out gorgeous !!

many photos from last year not on the blog so here goes....enjoy !

 We are making all doors in the house slider barn type. We had round wooden discs made with a groove in them to roll on the steel track. Expensive to buy the parts so we made them ourselves.

 wallboard up in the atrium.

 spiral stairs leading to my daughter's side.

Any respectable container has graffiti and ours are no exception ! We commissioned a local graffiti artist from Portland Maine to add some to one container. We gave him free reign and here is the result ! Absolutely love it ! The neighbor's....not so much but then again they weren't thrilled with our choice of building materials in the first place. 

It has been way too long since I updated this and now that the house appears on many new container sites, it is time. Drywall took most of the summer. We had help installing some of it with my husband and I installing it in the containers. I was good at mudding and taping so after I saw my husband's seams, I took over that. (one has to wonder if he made it look bad on purpose...) Originally we had decided on drywall for the atrium ceiling but in reality trying to find someone to install it 16ft up would have cost a fortune so we opted for metal roofing material. Yes we will have to add lots of fabrics to help with the echo of all that metal !

We had hoped to be in the house by fall but there was just too much left to do and winter in Maine was fast approaching. The interior plumbing was completed and the water heater in and we have 2 bathrooms left to be drywalled.