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We got our siding put up!! I already told yall that we wanted the outside of the house to look like a traditional house.

We left a lot of the interior "container walls" without drywalling them.



So we decided that metal siding was our most economical choice and it has a 30 year warranty on paint.




 We attached it to the pole barn style framing I told you guys about.



My husband wanted the exterior to be blue and I wanted cream trim. It turned out very nice.

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  1. AnonymousJune 2, 2020 at 5:48 AM

    Hi There! I'm a curator at Wasted-Ed (Part of Maffick.media): https://www.instagram.com/get.waste.ed/ We are interested in featuring your container construction project photos above on our Maffick platforms. Would that be OK?

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  2. AnonymousJune 2, 2020 at 8:21 AM

    PS. You can reach me at adamgoldstein@maffick.media Thanks!

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