Minimalist 20ft Shipping Container Tiny House for $39K - Full Tour
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Tony Lopez and Chris Buonaiuto created this beautiful, functional, affordable (and tiny!) house in a used 8' x 20' shipping container.
To see more of Tony and Chris' lovely tiny homes, check out their website and social media sites below:
Alternative Living Spaces, Tony Lopez
Instagram/FB: @AlternativeLivingSpaces
Website: www.alternativelivingspaces.com
Email: info@alternativelivingspaces.com
A2U Container Living, Chris Buonaiuto
Instagram: @A2UContainerLiving
Website: www.a2ucontainerliving.com
Email: a2ucontainerliving@gmail.com
This shipping container home is designed to be on the grid for water and power. It has a full bathroom, a functional kitchen, and a living room that easily converts into a bedroom.
These guys designed some neat space-saving furniture like the sofa bed, the bar cart, and the stackable clothing storage that makes this space comfortable and livable.
Thank you to Omar Eltakrori for filming this footage! You can see more of his work at: www.omareltakrori.com
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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One of the best container homes I've seen! compact, elegant, a truly good design
Probably thee BEST 20ft container tiny home I've seen so far! From the colors to the windows, flower fixtures, and............flushing toilet!!!!
First off, before I even finish watching the video, I just want to say that the quality of the videos lately are superb! Keep it up!
Thanks so much for the positive feedback 👍🏻🙂
This is a well thought out and beautiful home. The fact that it is also designed so that it can easily connect to utilities such as water, electricity etc is an added bonus.
The sofa bed is brilliant! Great storage.
This is probably one of the best tiny houses I've seen. So practical but also charming.
Looks nice except for the clothes storage area...would hate having to deconstruct and reassemble that every day to get dressed.
Ikr. It's a bad idea especially if you have entertainment equipment or items under the TV. You'd have to remove them everytime you need to access your clothes.
David
I think he needs to attach compartments to the inside of structure with metal swivel brackets....to just pull out like an old flour bin used to be. would need to remove front large square of structure and put hardware handle on compartments or drill circle holes to open drawer/bin/compartment.
My initial reaction also. I think I'd want shelves with foldable Walmart bins on them. Much more user friendly.
ok, did they make the bed or was it bought ready made with these features? perhaps make the storage under the t.v. taller and deeper, for more storage? just a thought. the rolling cart, why not make a removable top for storage underneath?
Great build, but 39k is WAY overpriced.
Thanks for watching 🙂 I think you might be able to build something like this for cheaper if you do everything yourself. But not everyone has the time or the skills. In the case of this container you're paying for all the materials but also for the labor.
Exploring Alternatives Very true, thanks for taking the time to respond.
Yes. The labor on the carpentry alone is extensive. @@ExploringAlternatives
atxtrojans002 right u built $20,,000 500 sq feet house
Muccchhhhhhh agreeeed.
Hi just wanna know what mechanism did you use for your couch so it can be transform into a bed?hope you reply..i really admire your sofa bed..
This is one of my favorite tiny homes, and I've seen hundreds of them. I prefer tiny houses without a loft.
The design is great, it sounds like they didn't skimp on the insulation, so it'll work in any climate. I prefer a mini-split for HVAC, but their unit fits this tiny house nicely.
As long as that couch/bed area is comfy I'm sold! :)
Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else wants to discover shipping container home plans try Skyarza Container Home Star (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some amazing things about it and my work buddy got amazing results with it.
I love tiny woodstoves. That would be a nice touch.
Its pricey though, and most likely get an actual mobile home for a lot cheaper.
It's great that these two men can live in this container together in this day and age. We have come very far as a civilisation. Much respect to you two gentlemen and I wish you every success in your relationship.
Everything they've done is Amazing! Love the use of pallet wood in their designs. I also love their enthusiasm!
Everything about the house is great. But for some reason the sofa bed was my favorite feature. Great job guys!!
One of the more well thought out container homes. No place for someone to hang dresses, but I'm sure they could come up with a solution.
I thought that there would be storage in the bathroom, but nope! But you're right, there's definitely space in there left to play around and customize storage needs!
Add another container, maybe a cube or full size one
Just fold everything.
I was so thinking the same thing. Add a Pod or schucks can you just imagine what two 20ft containers like this one side by side would look like!!! Super nice!
meepsel I'm thinking in terms of dresses that need to be hung up. 😊
The point of using a shipping container is federal law prohibits it from being taxed. Municipalities are catching up to the "tinyhouse" trend of building on a trailer to avoid taxes... But I'm wondering if they will be able to circumvent this? What do you think?
What the hell costs almost 40 grand about this? Someone got ripped off...
Blue is my favorite color. I absolutely love your cabinets. I love your color palette selection. I love how you did the storage areas.
I love the design and the bathroom is amazing.
*Finally!!* someone's built the floor plan I've been dreamin' of.. i'd personally go with a captains bed, raised to the level of the kitchen counter with pull out draws and a ladder, but this works just as well.. just awesome..
Excellent use of space. The bathroom layout is really great.
I loved the bathroom ceiling. I have that on a kitchen wall. Never thought about the ceiling. Beautiful
A very unique and awesome tiny house. :) Thanks for giving us a tour and bringing us along. - Shane
Thanks for checking it out, happy you enjoyed the tour 🙂👍🏻
Wow ..this really is the future..I went to the carribbean a few years ago and saw alot of these houses and loved them..Fantastic Guys really beautiful place..Blessings be safe everyone 🌱
Really cool. I was working near the port and always when I saw containers like this I was wondering if that could be transformed in houses for those people that don't have money to buy a regular one and I think when I saw this video made my day to see that my idea was not that crazy. Actually this container is really cool and fancy, but this idea could be manageable to build houses in Brazil or Africa for example, could even combine them to bigger families creating nice villages I guess !?!? :-)
Absolutely love your build.Every thing a person needs to be happy 🎉🎉
CUbbie under tv could open from front so you can get to the drawers without having to take them all out to get to the bottom ones.
If there's enough room to stand between it and the bed then there's enough room for those short drawers to be pulled out... Even more because turning it into draws requires less space than the box design does and it can be built/connected to the wall instead of being just in front of it.
My thoughts exactly. The rest is very well designed, they just let themselves get too artsy-fartsy there. I'm essentially a lazy person, the fewer steps involved to do something the better. With that in mind, the bed is not bad but, i'm dubious of the comfort with the position of the joint.
I was thinking side sliding doors would be a better option, since they won't take up any extra space. You know the ones, that one slides behind the other to reveal what's inside.
Right? And if you added more wood to the top of it, with hinges, it could fold/slide out to become a full-size table instead of using the cart thing. And the window next to the couch is nice, but there's just so much un-utilized space here.
great Idea I thought of that too. T
Too much trouble to take every thing out
This place is stunning! A lot of life can be lived in that place. I love the mixed materials. And the storage. 😍
Now that is small living and great job in building it.
The shipping container is really practical and attractive. How nice!
I love this house so much. Couldn't stop saying, "Wow!" out loud lol
really? wow!
Definitely my favourite tiny home for a single person
I really appreciate the production quality of your channel. The editing is also fab.
Great utilization of the space, I personally would add another container as making up the bed every night would drive my crazy! I need more closet space and not be so close to the tv. I feel like a lot of these homes don't have comfortable looking lounge areas.
$39000 for a twenty foot container!? Was a pot of gold included?
I looked it up, I can buy a brand new shipping container for 2K euro :D
Good one. : )
😂
They think we are all Greta Thunbergs who will pay lots and lots of texas to save the Earth.
Container homes
Where did you find the couch and I hope you have a dehumidifier bc I have a 40 ft container home and it’s insulated well but the thing gets so hot and the ceiling in the bathroom had red and black mold and mildew in it in a matter of 3-5 months and had to be completely removed, insulation and all, and replaced. It has central heat & AC as well. The thing gets so hot in heat though...It started out as just the idea of having a bathroom & shelter on weekends when working on undeveloped property, and snowballed into a living room, kitchen, nice size bed & bathroom, central h&ac w/ no loft needed! Oh and we have a decent size front porch on the end where doors open into living room and most people are shocked bc it’s nicer than a lot of people’s apartment or home. We only have lower cabinets around the sink and have a full-size glass top stove/oven that we used from our house once we upgraded and got a newer one for the house. The container house is hooked up to city water and electric on the property bc previous owners had a trailer set up out there. P.S. for having it brought to our house, building out, then relocating to our undeveloped property was ALL WAY less $$ than it cost these people to pay someone else to build it
AND we have a fs 8ft fridge
Why is the tv so high up? It should be eye level with the sofa.
Hey Nigel, thanks for the input! Something we'll definitely consider for future builds.
Agree
That an needs a bigger tv, take away that lil storage and make room for bigger tv
@@alternativelivingspaces lol
Why even bother to buy a tv in 2018. Just buy a picoprojector.
It looks smaller on the outside; I never would have figured there was a decent kitchen area and a bathroom the size of what you'd get in most city apartments. I like the vessel sink (and always wondered about the technical name for basins that sit on the surface of the vanity).
The background music was perfect in this video.
Awesome, thanks John🙂🙂
I really like this ... what a great way of using the sofa into a bed. Lots of light .
Typical, these people go WAYYYY over the top with "DECORATING".... Just make it functional, for under $8-$10,000
Right, that's what we want to know and that is the reason we consider a Tiny House... for the price. Not 40.000 dollars. We might as well buy a normal house.
@@hitoshiigarashi5350 or a condo.
Zo Kay
Down payment, guy
Literally nobody buys homes in full
Not even rich people
@@자시엘-l1s No one is loaning money on storage container homes, or any other 'Tiny Home' project.
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Maybe if you read to who and what I was referring to
Nice, fresh design. Great use of pallet wood, too!
$39K???? Expensive for a container home. I know my country is cheap, but $39K would get you a 2 storey, 2 bedroom unit, 40 to 50 sqm.
That's cheap for me. A crapy apartment in California, 1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom, $300K
I'm curious, are you yourself going to choose one of these options as your home in the near future or are you planning on travelling full time like you do now say for the next 5 yrs? You have shown us many great ideas and places but I would also like to hear from your own journey and life like what you did in the beginning :) Anyways love you guys, what a great journey you have had and still continuing to have ♥
This looks like a good option for housing ! !
If it wasn’t so expensive! You can buy the materials to build a traditional house that’s 2-3x the size for $10,000
simple, clean & organic. Just what i like.
It's cool but too small. I prefer my sleeping quarters to be separate from my lounge area.
Scruffy McHaggis And that's why there are so many different designs. A lot of people don't want their sleeping area anywhere near the kitchen. Some people don't want the kitchen anywhere near the bathroom. I think, when we're talking about a place this small, everything is close to everything else anyway, so a matter of a few feet more or less doesn't make any difference to me.
Put 2 containers together
Awesome and simple. Like a caravan but permanent. Nice and affordable to build. I could happy live there. Less is more 😊
Wow! That is a beautiful tiny home!!!
First things first this is an amazing build totally well thought out. I know the major concern is the pricing but i feel like you guys had to go the extra mile to bring out the beauty and functionality of a 20ft container as one of the best alternative living spaces.
Much love from Kenya maybe we could engage further in future projects etc
Absolutely beautiful!
Every shipping container video I look at, the bathroom takes up most of the space. It's already tiny enough as it is and the have a wall in the middle that takes up even more space.
Waoo beautiful n just 6week u guy's did a great job
It’s a good looking, solid, functional, and concise unit. I like it.
Thanks for the tour.
"Welcome, we're in the kitchen."
Bro, the camera just did a 180.
You're killing me bro lmao 😂😂🤣
Really love this one! The creative use of pallets is great. Love the color scheme too.
30k?? And 6 weeks? I could do it way cheaper and faster
Then go do it? A lot of work went in to it to make it as convenient as possible for the owner
That's the whole point. When someone does the work themselves they save a ton of money, but when you hire contractors to do the work it gets more expensive. I watched another video of a 40 foot shipping container conversion. The total cost was about $15K, but they did 90% of the work themselves.
Now this is the most beautiful tiny house I ever seen
Crazy expensive for 20' ! I have a 28' 5 th wheel for than half of that !
Now that's a joke, a brand new 5th wheel of good build quality can be over $135,000.... So the only way you got one for a lot less is if it's either junk or old and depreciated.
Even a camper like an Airstream Basecamp starts at just under $40,000 and can go over $47,000... Never mind their motorhomes like the Airstream Atlas Class B+ is over $217,000 and it can't even be used in a freezing cold winter climate!
But unlike most RV's an Airstream is actually built pretty well and won't depreciate rapidly. To show that build quality does matter in costs...
Never mind your 5th wheel isn't designed like a house so it has little to no insulation and you're spending more on heating and cooling and will spend more on repair and maintenance over the years.
Unless it's a heavily depreciated model then you will have the rubber roofs that are prone to leaking and will cost you over time. Along with lots of laminated materials that will eventually delaminate...
It's the 5th wheels that are over $135,000 that give you the all fiberglass exteriors, greater storage capacities, good quality steps and other accessories, the good floor plan layouts, the non-cheap tires and axles barely rated for a decent GVWR, which you especially need for the toy haulers and multiple slide outs...
But you can always sell it for less than you bought it for and at least you're not heavily invested in it but don't confuse what you have with an actual house!
Bullshit !!!
An awesome tiny home. Love the use of materials; pallet wood and colours. Amazing what you can fit in to a small space.
That TV would be nicer to be a bit lower and also I don't know how smart it is to have it so close to the heater. Blowing hot air directly into TV can't be a good thing.
I agree the TV is too high, after awhile watching it the neck hurts. Put it lower and add storage above it.
You mean you don't enjoy putting your neck/back out while watching TV? Haha. This whole place is insane. I cannot get over the price of this.
It's a beauty,. Just wondering about the bylaws and property tax how that work.
Very cool! 😉 nice work with the video too I see in the shadows your using a dslr crane. It's amazing how smooth they make the footage
Thanks Forrest🙂👍🏻 We actually did this video in collaboration with Tony and Chris and I believe they're using the Ikan Beholder...I could be wrong.. I personally have the Zhiyun Crane. The results can be pretty awesome but I have to say, setting it up to use with different cameras and lenses can be kind of annoying 😁 Thanks for checking out the video😀
Its nice to know that we have option of living woth out worried to maintness of regular standard home.My kids are maybe living on thier own years down the road.Im a single parent now,so i woy like to live simple.Just a bed, kitchen,tv patio to go out enjoy coffee in morings.
Wonderful work, I wish I could buy one right now.
One of the better designs that I've seen.
This is a scam oh my god. look we got a fold out bed and curtains, you've never seen that before, and now for only 39k
Absolutely correct.
the fold out bed and curtains aren't included in the price!
It looks great! Only thing I had to question was the TV being so high up.and in front of the heater. Wouldn't that cause problems? Other than that, I think it's worth the money because the craftsmanship is perfect.
Beautifully thought out home!
Just what a good suburb needs ! Rows and rows of old shipping containers !!
This tiny home is so cool and everything about it is my ideal style.
I love that bathroom! So quirky :)
Love the modern rustic looking charm
Hey, I have an IKEA sofa like that with a broken arm, great idea to put wood on the side!
The Not Busy Life pretty sure I have the same couch with the same issue 😂
Haha that is so awesome!! Yes, it is originally from IKEA - go ahead and spice it up with some wood on the side. ( :
Is that where I can buy a similar sofa bed? I am building a box truck mini home and would love to have a similar piece. thanks
Great use of pallet wood. Brilliant job guys.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice work!!!
Wow, man, and like far out cool. The "actually" per minute was over the top, but I really appreciated the "cool" use and the "pallet wood" repetition. Two thumbs up from a fellow millennial!
I totally Love it! thanks for sharing
How is the bathroom vented? How was the corrugated aluminum sealed at the ends? Thoughts on integrating a dehumidifier into the space? I am concerned about controlling humidity and preventing mold and mildew, especially at points where water can accumulate, such as where the aluminum meets the bottom of the wall or floor.
No washer/dryer.
With room for 2 pair of Jean's, 2 pair of underwear and 1 sock. Why bother
One of the best tiny homes
$39,000 for pallets and having to make a bed every night???? Do over!!!
Lol ppl sell things bigger then this for like 15-20k
Exceptional container cottage. My favorite. I love the Windows & the garden boxes. Well done!’j
I’m watching a six part documentary on the downfall of Yugoslavia and now I’m here....
J. Ocampos lmao
It's a great documentary in fairness.
Probably the best use of available space I've seen yet! 😊👍🏻
2:14 Oh cool, an air conditioner to hide my slides in...
gotta be the best samall shipping container home i seen so far,, great job guys..
Should cost about $10.000 even when using quality materials instead of pallet wood.
i liked this house already. i can move in anytime. seriously good job guys
Only 36k. If that's cheap I must be extremely poor
Cheap is relative to what you get for the price... A lower cost container would lack things like good insulation and you'd be basically living in a metal box, which wouldn't be good if you don't also live in a place where it never gets too hot or too cold...
Though, on the low end they can be around $15K but they built this to handle most climate zones and it includes all the furnishings and appliances for the list price...
You'd actually pay more for many things that aren't meant to be used as a home... Like a Airstream Basecamp is just a 16' camper but it starts around $40,000 and goes up to over $47,000... and there are other campers in the $30K range...
Going a lot less is where the old and depreciated models can be found... But those can be an option if you can't afford anything newer and some can be in pretty good shape if the previous owner maintained them well...
While you may consider building one yourself as another way to keep the price really low and is how many people manage to get the price even under $10K when building their own Tiny House...
But paying other people to do it and provide a brand new anything that may also be custom designed to your specifications can cost a lot more...
This is a great concept at a fair price. I had to share this though. This 24 ft w/ raised ceilings has a master bedroom floor level/with 2 sleeping lofts and total cost $30-35 K (but yeah, it was hand built by O). Both are great use of space for sure.
love the house but am sorely disappointed that you parked it in a clearly marked accessible (disabled) parking spot :(
Q- insulation? Love how smart and beautiful it is. Amazing work. Genius.
Wowwww i like it. Container home and solar power system together.... ohhh mỹ dream
a modern and vintage look? wow that is nice!
Yeah I was thinking is that really possible? LOL 😁
Unbelievable ! It's hard to believe what you got in there ! Well played !☺
My question is where are you going to find a reasonably priced lot to place this that will also meet any city codes to be hooked up to water, sewer and electricity?
that's always the rub. I love the idea of container homes, but they can only be placed in rural or select suburban areas.
Storage container homes are nicely done when they are the full 40x8.5 size. The downside to this concept is land to put it on. Most cities do not want people to live in nontraditional housing. So when you buy one of these and ask the city for a permit to put it on empty lit between stick-built homes you will get rejected. For this to even work builders need to develop a community made for these homes. Much like an RV park.
Excellent build and unlike what others are saying - 39k is an amazing price and makes me wonder where corners were cut. Won't be very energy efficient but there WILL be compromises with any home you build. Building a new home is crazy expensive. Depending on where you live it may or may not be worth it, just keep in mind that you don't get an actual lot together with this price. You also don't get a foundation which you may or may not require. Then again you could make this into a high-tower container and add another 40 feet to it and you wouldn't double the cost by doing so. Suddenly you've have 320 square feet. In theory you could add on more units (such as a smaller like this one) for kids or if you want to for instance have a laundry room or storage container.
How cute. Love all the cool touches as well, If I was single I'd buy that place in a heart beat
The shower is amazing