OUR TEAM (Copy)
OUR hISTORY
We’ve been designing and building container homes in Upstate New York since 2009. The industrial look and feel of the containers are a contrast to the natural landscape of the region, while reflecting the vernacular of industrial farm buildings.
Over the years we have developed a tight network of experts in the field: container suppliers, architects, engineers, contractors, plumbers and electricians familiar with our modular designs. This close coordination is critical for streamlining fabrication and simplifying installation.
As early innovators in a trend that continues to grow worldwide, we have developed a loyal and passionate customer base. As new technologies emerge, we’re continually exploring ways to reduce the cost of container homes.
OUR TEAM
TIM STEELE
Tim has always processed the world visually, turning his experiences into drawings and paintings, then into physical spaces as an interior designer. He enjoys creating distinctive puzzle pieces of all shapes and sizes—each with its own personality—then rearranging them until he finds that one element that brings them together into a cohesive statement.
Since 2009 he’s brought this approach to construction, building thoughtful and efficient living spaces using shipping containers for the throughline. As with his drawings and paintings, he’s packed practical efficiencies and visual stimulation into every corner of his container-as-canvas.
His primary focus within the business is to create meaningful relationships with his customers to understand their functional needs and visual aesthetic. He then designs the interiors and coordinates all construction, to deliver the kind of home that creates a similarly immersive relationship between the owners and their new living space, as Tim has always had with his art.
Tim and his cat live in Livingston Manor, NY, on a farm where he’s turning his 5,000-sf barn into a community painting studio. This project is a continuation of his interest in combining recycled and new materials to create environments that are visually distinctive, environmentally low-impact, and highly functional where people are encouraged to pursue their individual passions.
GREG LITTLETON
Greg grew up in a tract home in rural California before moving to New York for college. Aside from meeting his wife there, he discovered his second passion studying architectural history, then began his career as an architectural writer before becoming Managing Editor at Architecture Magazine (previously the AIA Journal).
After earning his MBA he joined a small industrial design firm as its first COO, growing the company into a world-renowned innovation consultancy over the next 20 years. Always a builder, he used the same approach in his next role with a financial services consultancy, delivering rapid and sustainable growth that led to an outsized private equity investment.
Moving back to the Hudson Valley during the pandemic, and with a lifelong passion for both design and expanding companies with a creative soul, Greg found Steele House. His focus with the company is a long-sought combination of his passions in architecture, business strategy and process improvement. His approach is inspired by Usonian principles but updated to meet the needs of the 21st century: affordable single-family homes for everyday people, made from mass-produced but recycled materials, bringing safety and simplicity to a population at risk from both a housing crisis and environmental catastrophe.
OUR nETWORK
ADAM PATELA, RA, AIA
Architect
