Bold and Unusual: Make a Statement With a Shipping Container Sliding Door

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The Wyss family approached Paul Michael Davis Architects with a vision to design a bold, unusual, and adventurous addition to their existing ho-hum 1950s split level on Mercer Island, Washington. And they really loved the idea of re-purposing shipping containers.

To meet these demands, Paul Michael Davis Architects with the help of Karlstrom Construction did what no one had done before and invented… shipping container sliding doors.

The shipping containers now serve as both a backdrop and functional necessity for their lives—the giant sliding door can divide the living space into two when sound or social separation is needed, the indoor container houses a small bath and mud room that get daily use, and the outdoor container is ready to be a work from home retreat.

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