hi there welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of creative homes and
showcase alternative lifestyles in this week's video we're going to take a tour
of one man's container home manufacturing company which he started after building his
first container in his parents backyard after that tony felt pretty strongly that he could
create a company based on alternative living spaces and now today he's built many many
more container homes for people interested in alternative lifestyles if you guys like these
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hi i'm tony with alternative living spaces
so the company started in 2017 and started my parents backyard with one little uh 20-foot
container that i thought would be really fun to convert into a tiny home since then we've
evolved into now a team from a great build crew to a sales team to marketing things like that and so
you know back then it was just me and really my dad building out of my backyard and now we have
our facility where we're able to take on maybe 10 to 12 projects at a single time to work on
what's funny is when i bought this first container i remember telling my dad that i'd build it out in
three months and at the time i used all my money to buy the container so i was out of funds for my
materials and spent the next nine months working my couple different jobs saving up the money and
then on the weekends i'd work on it so it took me nine months to build the first container
what's kind of cool about the first container is i remember once i got it done i had reached out
to a buddy of mine that was good with videos and just said hey man i think it'd be really cool to
do a youtube video of this and so he helped me do a little bit of a tour we just kind of walked
through the unit and i remember i launched the business uh website the day before and so we were
just getting started i thought you know what if someone wants to reach out maybe we'll get
some contacts and sure enough the video ended up going viral and that's what started the business
what inspired me to get into building alternative living spaces was really the fact that housing
uh when i was you know this was about five years ago it's even more now but
at the time i just thought man housing is so expensive and just thought there had to be a
better way a more affordable option and really just started thinking about smaller housing
and saw containers is a really good structure to build a smaller house within
so the average container home will range anywhere between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars you
can have them built out for less but that's a home that's going to have full bathroom full kitchen
and it's something that you could actually live at a full time now that's the cost for the container
conversion itself there could be additional cost associated for you having your land
prepping your property or if you have to go through the permitting process as well we do have
some options that are on wheels so we can actually take your container tiny home put it on wheels
get it rv certified and now you can actually put your tiny home anywhere that a rv can go
i think container homes are a really good alternative to traditional tiny homes mainly
because of their durability containers are extremely strong they're made out of steel
and so you're going to get a home that can last a very long time
and can also even withstand natural disasters so areas like say florida or areas that have
earthquakes and hurricanes this really ends up being a great form of housing
up till now we've built about a hundred shipping container homes so the process of building
a shipping container home is not a whole lot different than building any other type of home or
even tiny home the biggest difference is just how you work around the container and you work with it
alright so right behind me is our first bay what's cool about our space is we've done
everything out of containers so all of our storage is containers essentially our warehouse space is
out of containers and container tents so right here we've got bay one and two we've got two
really cool projects going on that we're going to showcase and show you guys but then we also
have a few different bays spread out as well so we're getting some more tents here soon
just to try to get out of the direct heat because we are in vegas so thankfully it's not too hot
today but it gets super hot out here but with that let's take a look at these first two containers
so we're standing right in front of a 40-foot one-trip high cube shipping container this is
going to be installed just outside of san diego it's going into a client's backyard as an adu
they're going to be using it as an airbnb rental or when they have family in town so that they can
stay in it this is a really unique container i don't think we've ever done one with this many
windows before it has a total of 16 windows so really really a lot of light coming in this unit
and the first space you walk into is going to be the kitchen the kitchen is going to be right
underneath these three windows it's going to be some butcher block countertops it'll have
a full-size fridge a two burner stove top on this side is going to be the living room
so sofa is going to be right here in this space they'll have their tv mounted up here
and then we did something cool with the container doors so this is actually
the original container doors we just cut out where it already has some structural support and we're
going to reinstall glass right here so this will basically be two doors with floor-to-ceiling glass
as an additional entrance so should be pretty cool and then going towards the back there's going to
be a hallway right here this will end up being a full-size bathroom they'll have a nice tile shower
with the frosted glass window vanity and toilet and then in the back is going to be the bedroom
the next space is our office space we spaced out two 20-foot shipping containers just to create
a little bit of a courtyard space in between a place where guys can kind of hang out on lunch
break or if we have clients doing a tour a place to sit down and talk about what they're looking
for the office on this end is basically our break room so nothing crazy just a space for guys to
have a break drink some water eat lunch and then over here is basically our main offices
uh so just got a few desks in here for the team some of our team members that work remote but
for the people that are here we all work right out of this 20 shipping container
so this unit right behind me is a really unique one it's actually a shipping container
on wheels so it's going to be rv certified so technically it's an rv you can tow it on any road
this unit is unique and then it's actually being turned into a mobile gym it's actually
my cousin started a container gym business called furyko so we're building out his gyms for him
and this is going to be going to hollywood it's going to be for some actors and actresses to
use to stay in shape when they're on set and we hear rumors that maybe people like jason
mamoa and some others are going to be training in here shortly so it should be pretty cool
this one right here is a 40 foot container so this is our one bedroom model so it's got a
full bedroom bathroom kitchen living room area this one is going to be going to the midwest
and it leaves here in about 10 days so we're almost done just got some final finishing touches
when you walk into this unit the first space is the living room so sofa's here
tv right here got a little uh collapsible tabletop
so it just folds right up opportunity to put a couple little bar stools hang out and eat kitchen
is right here on the left two burner stove top 21 inch sink full-size fridge here to the right
bedroom is in the back got a 9000 btu mini split works out well for a unit this size on this end of
the bedroom we have a combo washer dryer and then we're working with a custom furniture company here
in vegas they're going to do a custom wardrobe right here so there'll be some drawers on the side
these doors will open up for them to hang up their shirts and things like that
all right for the bathroom we got a modern style door five panel frosted glass and then on the
interior a lot of those same butcher block themes and then we went with a metal roofing panel for
the shower so we just basically bend the metal panels and it turns out pretty well for a shower
so this unit right behind me is a really unique unit that we got to do we actually got to do
it for hdtv show that just aired about a month ago and this is a 24 foot container
so we actually took the container doors opened them up welded them to at an additional four
feet this unit is also rv certified on wheels let's take a look inside
so the interior of this unit is pretty unique i've never done a container home that had
all tile floors the designers really wanted this unit to have tile floors and so we did
one with an epoxy grout also a lot of really unique windows a lot of natural light in here
the main color is white so it just feels a little bit more open really unique floor
plan though right up here ends up being a little bit more like a living room space as we go we're
gonna go into the bathroom first and then there's bunk beds in the back for the owners for the kids
what's cool about the bathroom it's got a skylight so we did a two by two skylight
the interior really with really high end finishes so cool tile backsplash here mp3 player up here
uh cool kind of like more the gold brass type fixtures same thing as you enter into the shower
space all tile shower with similar look on the fixtures all right the last part of this tiny home
you'll notice a narrow hallway is for two kids so you know normally i wouldn't recommend that size
we got bunk beds in the back for the kids they got plugs so they can each have kind of like a
built-in tv storage underneath and then they each have their own window as well so cool little space
so this next build as you'll notice behind me is not a shipping container
it's actually a camper van and so we started to kind of delve into the camper van space and just
trying to live out that alternative living space idea and so let's go ahead and take a look inside
it's a dodge promaster 2500 159 inch wheelbase basically you got a kitchen space here with
fridge stove uh sink a little eating area in the back that turns into a bedroom space so
then right here we got our shower the nice thing about like a shower head like this has got the
little on off switch so you can just kind of try to manage your water a little cassette toilet as
well and this is fully off grid and so you really could live in this thing full time has a good size
water tank plenty of solar power and really is just meant to have people go on adventure with
the most fulfilling thing about what we do is really a number of things i'd say
number one i think it's really important in business to have purpose behind it you know
why are you doing this and it has to be a greater purpose than making money and so for us we really
feel like we can make a difference in the area of affordable housing i feel like we're pretty
pretty early and i think there's still a lot of counties that are catching up and trying to have
the opportunity to have alternative housing but we are seeing areas start to approve it and so it's
really exciting to be part of that i definitely see myself being involved in this space long term
for me it's more than just having a business i really this is my passion you know i grew up
loving architecture i want to be an architect early on and i want to be a business owner
then i ended up getting a degree in theology so i've been all over the place but it's it's awesome
to be able to be able to design stuff build stuff and ultimately help people and so uh really love
what i do and we'll be doing this for a long time for people that are interested in getting into
this industry what i love about containers is it's very doable as a diy project so when i did
my first container home in 2017 i had actually just about zero construction knowledge and so
i was going coming in as a blank slate and just was looking up online how do you do this stuff
ended up building my first container home for 13 000 in material i did all the labor my dad had
helped me out a little bit they're sure there's some things going back i would have changed how
i built it but for the most part if you do some research this is really something you can do
yourself it really does come out come down to a lot of the regulation in the area that you're at
so if you're in a location where there's really low regulation you're really in good
a good spot to build your own container home if you're interested in building your own container
home tony is offering a free online class on may 5th you can find out more information on
that in the description and i will see you soon with another tiny or creative home tour