container homes are one of my favorite types of alternative housing to feature on this channel
and this week i'm showcasing perhaps the most beautiful and functional tiny house i've ever seen
and it all fits in just one 20-foot container
cam the owner and builder took designing a container home as a personal challenge
not only does he have multiple moving pieces inside to maximize
the living space we are sitting in the living area
and the bedroom all in one he also decided to build the entire house over a running stream
why maybe the better question is why not
hi i'm cam this is my shipping container home i like to call it cam's container
i've been living in the container for a few months now i built the home myself
so i do have some design experience i went to architecture school for six years got my masters
and thankfully it has led me to building this
so this container is 20 feet long it's a side open shipping container so the interior
dimensions equal 125 square feet i really didn't want to compromise on something so the idea of
the bed raising and lowering from the ceiling and the sliding closet to just maximize as much square
footage as possible so my shipping container is located over a stream getting it here was a
process of figuring out how it could span this and now a shipping container is really stiff a
metal welded box so it doesn't need much but it needs to be guided over and so i acquired some
telephone poles by running up to the road while these workers were there and convincing them to
leave a few behind so i used those and bought some i-beams and then had the container delivery driver
carefully ooch the shipping container across on the i-beams and metal slides on metal so
it went smoothly it was very scary though this is cam's container let's go inside
welcome and we are sitting in the living area and the bedroom all in one
in the fourier so you have your entrance you have your nice living area comfortable seating
lay back watch tv enjoy the view it also gives you extra storage down low so you have two big drawers
of storage and then this side of the wall is all my mechanical area as
well you have the electrical panel hot water heater heating cooling mini split
all of the electrical and water propane all come in through this side then we have the
bedroom as well so this lowers down a few steps to do it remove the pillows fold these down
this becomes a bedside table same with this one right here and here is the remote pretty simple
and down it goes
and then you have your bed and you're only really doing it twice a day so
it's kind of loud but it's not too bad you have a full-size mattress here
and then what's nice about this is tiny houses are always hard to make your bed in there your
bed's always in the corner your bed's like pushed away into a certain area so what's nice about this
one is you can stand back here and get your fitted sheet on your other sheets along the bottom makes
your bed making your bed in the morning way easier than traditional tiny houses and if you
really don't want to make your bed you can just squish it up into the ceiling and call it a day
and then easy
back to the living room easy as that so the winch
is hidden under here it just has this pulley down tv stays down here up against the wall so you can
use it in the living room put down the bed and you don't even have to chain pause your netflix
so we're in the kitchen now just a few small steps away from the
living room bedroom have this rv stove here to save space
counter space as you can fold this down i have a nice big farmhouse sink here
and then nice drawers i built this whole kitchen out of plywood and a big fan of the sexy ply
which is baltic birch but we'll call it sexy ply from now on
did have help with the interior design on this from a friend cali goss thankfully she was around
to add in elements of this nice backsplash and the color and then if we spin around to this side
we have our table and heating area desk whatever you need at the time so easy as folding it up
and ta-da you have your extra counter space here so two of you can work one could cook
one could do dishes another chopping everything over here it's a good flow
so we're in the bathroom now but we have a dry flush toilet
we have more open shelves over here this mini vanity is really nice
and then we have the exciting part of the bathroom right here so showers you only use
for if you're by yourself what 10 to 20 minutes depending on who it is maybe someone does five
but the rest of the time it just sits there so i have created a sliding closet
to expose the shower you do your business shower away you do have to let it dry a little bit before
you can slide it back but you can slide it back over and then when you do open it
you need your door to close if you have another person in here so this door
slides open so that's for doing your business in the bathroom but for showering
you can
shower and be in your walk-in closet the container itself is a side open container it's 20 feet long
this whole 20 foot long side opens up and when the deck's not here the doors can close and
you can ship this thing anywhere in the world still
so this wall is built just inside the doors it's all stick frame because that's what i
know and how to build and then insulation is spray foam and the deck itself is rough sawn
lumber and then i had it sticking out of the forklift spots of the container
itself and it was cantilevered out and to keep it safe i have added in posts and added on a railing
and then this side is the utility side so the mini split heating and cooling propane comes in here
water comes in here and then you get a electrical outlet
i really like the idea of the shipping container itself
it's used for so many different things and the idea of living in one
seemed like a pretty interesting idea and then also having the challenge of designing around it
plans for the future this is live on airbnb and then for myself i am continuing on with uh two
tiny house on wheels uh both of them are gonna be 24 feet and then from there continue building
and designing and creating for the few months that i was in it really enjoyed living in it it
was very comfortable it was also fun it was just you kind of especially because i built it myself
you i got this little giddy feeling almost kind of when you're laying in bed
and you are looking around and you're like wow i i built this it's allowed me to grow
as a person and a builder and a designer it's been a lot of fun though i'd say it's for the better
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