hey guys welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of unique spaces behind me is
an amazing container home that Nabil and I actually had the chance to stay in last
night and today we're going to meet the owner Nick who built this container home but also
built an A-frame tree house that we featured on this channel last year he's going to take us on
an in-depth tour of this new container home so let's Jump Right In and meet Nick [Music]
thank you
I'm Nick welcome to the Sea container cabin [Music]
my wife and I bought this property in 2010 it's just about six acres the original intent for
the property was to find a place where we could ski from and do some River play in the summer we
always wanted a place to get out of the city to connect as a family and to be in nature
we currently now have six small cabins on the property it wasn't
until 2017 when we started sharing on Airbnb
after the tree house I started the sea container cabin project these
particular containers were manufactured in 2007. as you can see by some of the
dents in the sides there definitely had a life of transporting things to and from
I think it's Unique enough and I think is different enough that it will be worth it
in the long run for my family and friends to use it and for guesties for short-term rental [Music]
all right so the sea containers are made up of really just two containers two high Cube
40 foot long containers the guys that sold them to me cut one of the containers in half so it's
two 20 foot containers on the lower portion and then the 140 foot cantilever about 12 feet on
each side what's so cool about the containers is they're so strong that they can handle being
hung over and they're still structurally sound and it really creates a nice living situation
because it's a covered entry so you're not going to be getting rained on when you're shuffling to
open the door get to your groceries or whatever in a similar situation is in the back too experts
on shipping containers will notice that those locking mechanisms are not traditional so the
actual close of the 40 foot lower container is on the back side but I wanted it to look
like a shipping container on the front so I had them weld onto Handles in the front
one of the goals for the site was not to take any trees down and just to fit the Lego blocks
in between as they're kind of situated now we decided to do kind of a segmented foundation so
as not to disrupt the tree roots we certainly didn't want to damage them and because they're
part of the beautiful scenery in the area power was already here so we had a power pole brought
over the closed cell spray foam is really nice for these shipping containers because you don't
want any space between the metal container and the insulation because it can condense and cause
some moisture problems later so we did a closed cell spray foam so I had about 16 Door and Window
holes pre-cut and Frames welded around them down at Mountain container where I bought them from
and I would go down basically every week to kind of check on the build and make sure they
were in the right place and whatnot and they did a tremendous job and the original drawing I had
a hot tub on the roof and there it is a little two-person hot tub sitting on the roof to make
this a unique you know kind of bucket list type of a place where hopefully guests will like to stay
so time frame for the build it was pretty quick we ended up taking delivery of the containers late
September and we had our first guests in March so roughly six months on the ground I ended up
paying 12 grand for technically three containers and it ended up costing about 250 Grand [Music]
essential ski cabin so I left some of my old skis up here as kind of a splash of
color but also just to remind people of the ski cabin let's take a look inside [Music]
welcome inside the sea container cabin this was a really fun build for me sometimes when I'm
sitting here alone or with friends or family imagine like what possibly could be held in
these sea containers as they traveled the Seas that was one of the reasons I was attracted to
a build like this so one of my favorite design features in any house is to have an open floor
plan where you can cook dinner sit and enjoy your family and friends and have
a an eating space but also have a comfortable TV watching zone so you can watch TV while you cook
I decided to put in a electric fireplace it emits a little bit of heat but I love
the new contemporary electric fireplace look you can also change it to any color you like
it's pretty trippy I'm thinking that a lot of guests will like to just sit here and zone out
on the fire like I do sometimes [Music] as I've progressed in the cabins on the
property I've fallen in love with lighting so anytime there's a plug and something I
can hide an LED strip behind it probably has one now but in this case with enough planning
you can actually mud these LED light channels inside the wall I think I saw the first couple
versions of this on Tick Tock and then tracked a supplier in Florida who gave us these cool
light sculptures so there's one of these here and then there's one in each bedroom as well
this LED light can dim so it can be you know less strong if you want more of a subtle hint of light
man that's beautiful I love it the sculpture here in the wall I really like how it defines
the rooms so you have really a separation here between living room and kitchen when I designed
the kitchen I fell in love with these dark colors one of the themes for the sea container cabin is
this Lava Rock theme which you'll see throughout but this is a true Basalt tile made from cooled
lava and I'm a geology major so it's pretty dorky but yeah I've got lava lava rock in many places so
the countertops are made by this company called paper Stone they do a proprietary resin that is
made up of recycled products so another theme of the cabin was to go with you know used shipping
containers for sustainable product choices like the cork flooring and the paper stone
countertops I just love this this wood line that cuts the dark color in the kitchen and then with
these brushed brass fixtures all throughout the the cabin I love how the colors play
we have an electric two burner cooktop we have a convection microwave oven so
you can bake pizzas chicken nuggets whatever you need but we don't have a full traditional
oven and we don't have a dishwasher so to enjoy yourself while you're washing
your dishes there's a gigantic probably 110 year old fir tree right outside the window
the containers themselves I actually just purchased two 40-foot High Cube containers
cut one of them in half so the ground floor is two 20 foot containers so you can see here this is the
midline of the ground floor and this is where the two 20-foot containers meet right here container
delivery is pretty intense we used forklifts straps and it was an exciting day to say the least
so for heating and cooling we went with the mini split system it has three interior units
that heat and cool and it's very straightforward just a remote on the on the wall and you can put
your temperature so it you know goes up or down whatever you'd like so we've got a little Powder
Room bathroom here with one of the spa toilets from Chown Hardware we've got the same countertop
material from paper Stone and then mirror from China Hardware floor to ceiling window
inside there who knows if we'll have to change that with a blind if guests complain but it's
pretty you know it's the woods but we'll see so welcome to the backyard so again you got a nice
covered space where you can do your barbecue your grill action we pick tracks it's made
at 95 recycled Plastics which goes along with the sustainable theme and I like the the deck
board Choice here just very angular and I think that kind of matches the kind of Lego block you
know feel that the containers have got yourself a little fire pit Zone here for your s'mores
we were fortunate enough to get about six acres of land here so this whole back portion behind
the tree frame and the sea containers is our property and it's a beautiful really
rain forest because of how much it rains here a temperate rainforest with big leaf maple fir trees
and really thick Mossy cedar trees it's a really nice place to just chill and take some deep rest
so one of my favorite parts of the cabin is the staircase if you look here each stair
has its own LED light and then we had to run a wire from each stair of course down to an
electrical source so the wires travel through the Lumen of this Central metal Stringer here
and they continue down through the floor and then go back up to the transformer in the closet
but look at this sucker 7 8 inch steel rods each one each tread is is pierced with these rods and
has a big nut on it to stabilize it and to help level but man it's just like a solid beautiful
you know piece of metal art so I'm thrilled how this turned out
so we picked all the metal pieces from Everett Steel
we had a special Metal Fab Company thread all these long rods it's so like strong but elegant
and simple and you can use it to like do pull-ups if you want you know it's really strong [Music]
so at the top of the stairs here we have another white birch finished plywood wall I really like
this and used it in the tree frame but often I just love the warm glow that it gives with
soft lighting this particular wall I saw this video years ago on YouTube about doing black
lines to transition the plywood but instead of doing it on installation we installed the
whole thing I took the boards down routered an eighth of an inch a Groove and then put
them back up and at the very end taped it off and spray painted these black lines in to give
another artistic feature in the hallway here so upstairs in the 40-foot container
we've got two bedrooms and a bathroom but first I'll show you the bedroom down here
this is technically the guest bedroom and we have a super cozy short queen bed in here so
that you can walk around it's just a cozy spot for two people to sleep you've got tremendous
view of the forest and the trees and a big four foot by four foot Skylight highlighting the the
gorgeous trees and sky above the Skylight to me was a must I found these Dome skylights that were
rated for snow coverage and whatnot they really curb over the welded portion that was created so
no leaking so far so keep our fingers crossed so in each bedroom there's a little tooth brushing
sink my wife's a dentist so it's very important that we get our hygiene for our teeth taken care
of every night so partly that but also because there wasn't really room in the shower bathroom
portion to put a sink so we went with a little sink in each bedroom these mirrors have a dimmable
feature as well this one has a backlight dim and a front light dim pretty fancy so another product
choice to stay with the sustainable theme was we chose this cork flooring and I didn't
no but I guess every nine years the cork tree can be scraped and a full amount of that same
cork can be harvested nine years later so it's an extremely sustainable product choice and it's
super soft on your toes and really nice so we're going to look at the master bedroom here [Music]
this is the master because it has a slightly longer cabin here and it has this little spot
where you could store some stuff so it's literally I don't know six feet longer
I guess again has one of these cozy beds but check out this view full Forest Mossy
Pacific Northwest trees and again we did the same exact Skylight here for your star gazing pleasure
we did the the same LED light sculpture here there's a small closet for your stuff
all right so check out this shower hallway uh we've got this tremendous
steam shower with a bunch of lava rocks in it and then down here is another toilet
this is one of my favorite parts of the cabin the floor is actually lava we've got Basalt tiles one
inch hex down here on the floor and you've got floor to ceiling Forest View and once you're in
you can sit here on this lava bench it's a three inch thick piece of basalt and then just for fun I
decided to put a two inch strip of Basalt from floor to ceiling just almost if it was like a
pigmentite just shooting through the white marble and I may have taken it too far with the lava but
I'm happy with how it turned out so this is a full steam shower with the steam coming out down below
and I'll give you the pro tip here when you are ready to steam and hot tub you turn on the steam
takes a few minutes to get it steamy in there so you shut the door head out make sure some of your
favorite Tunes are on and you hop in the hot tub but this is truly a ski cabin we're 30 minutes
from Steven's Pass so one of the reasons I put in the hot tub and the steam shower is to soak your
bones after a hard day of skiing and then get back over to the Steam and check this baby out
be careful the floor is lava [Music] thanks for watching this week's episode I hope you
guys enjoyed it if you'd like to see a tour of the A-frame tree house also built by Nick make
sure you check out the link in the description and I will see you soon with another unique home tour
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