For Danny and Claudette Rogers, the saying “necessity is the mother of invention” couldn’t ring more true.
As owners of Shape Shifters Construction in Snowflake, the couple works with disabled homeowners in need of handicap retrofit construction for their homes. The idea to create such a specialty business came from Claudette’s own experience becoming wheelchair bound due to being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.
“We worked with a contractor who told us he was overloaded with these types of projects. That’s when we realized this was something we could do,” says Claudette. “At the beginning, Danny worked at a paper mill, but had been looking at leaving and getting out own his own. He had always done side work in construction, so he got his contractor’s license.”
In 2009, Danny and Claudette started Shape Shifters Construction and since then, have been working with disabled homeowners needing modifications made to their homes to provide easier accessibility.