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Hello! It's been forever!  I wanted to share our progress, specifically cutting all the holes for the doorways and windows and how we framed the open doorways with steel tubing! We have a lot of windows and some quite huge, they were one of the few things we splurged on, we love the views of our property. Also the way we had the containers laid out, the middle rooms could have ended up feeling rather closed in, but we were able to open them up quite nicely. You do have to be careful with the containers, because the soundness of the structure relies a lot on the walls. The corners are extremely strong, and when they stack them on the ships they are stacked on the corners. But if you cut too much of the walls away without reinforcing them you run the risk of them twisting and bending. We do have several large windows and doorways, but did not cut any that were big enough to need reinforcement. My husband invested about $200 on a plasma arc cutter and they use