I cover a variety of tiny house stories on this channel.
And while some people are using tiny spaces as permanent housing,
I also like to showcase stories where people are using tiny spaces in a creative
way to help improve their life.
So that might be as an additional revenue stream,
as a vacation home or as a backyard additional dwelling unit.
So in today's story,
you're going to see how one family has transformed a shipping container into a
beautiful modern living space for their backyard.
Hi, my name is Sasha and I'm here today to show you my container home here in
Denver, Colorado.
so my husband and I decided to do a container home. Uh,
honestly it was my husband that sort of put the idea into my head.
He's a a designer and he has a great love of modular design and,
and making things that are ugly, beautiful.
We decided to go with something that was light and airy and really modern.
It's the style we're both really interested in.
The modern style with that industrial kind of feel is really inviting.
It's actually a 40 foot shipping container that we had cut down to 33 feet.
He, uh, had an idea of what he wanted and he worked with,
with the guys and adapted it to make it work.
It's very much taking your time and going through and working out what will fit
in the tiny home. It's a tiny space, so you need to measure bookcases,
you need to measure beds,
you need to measure lounges and work out what's actually going to fit well in
the space without making it smaller.
So our container home is actually going to be used for two different reasons.
We have lots of family and friends that come and visit us,
so we decided we wanted somewhere where people can come and stay.
It's their own little place private for them, but then they're also close to us.
Secondly,
we want to use it as an Airbnb and we feel like people will love to experience
that. You know what a tiny home,
a container home is something that is not readily available.
It is very much an experience and I'm excited to be able to provide that
So guys, here is our tiny home.
Come in through the French doors and they both latch back fully.
So this is one of my favorite parts of the container home.
Being able to sit here,
relax and have the French doors wide open and relaxed with outside. Yeah.
So my husband's favorite part of the container home is the windows,
the long windows that are here and also in the bedroom.
They really bring in so much light.
So he kitchen is actually quite spacious.
I'm a big fan of the countertops.
They look really beautiful as well from this sparkling. Uh,
there's lots of space for storage and stuff like that. Your pots and pans.
I did however want a little bit more.
So I added a little shelf up to the top and I'm out of my glasses up there and
it really went with the theme of what we had. But if you're short,
there's a little stool for the people that are short that can't reach it.
So it comes with an induction cooker,
which just plugs in and I cooked on that the other night and I made amazing
food. So I was pretty happy with it.
We have a relatively full size fridge.
You'd be surprised how much stuff actually fits in there.
And it's a fridge and a freezer. Go to conviction oven, not microwave.
And then our coffee machine because everyone needs coffee in the morning.
And so you cheeky people out there.
My husband came up with a really cool concept and behind this barn door.
If you actually open up you can peek into the shower.
So the bathroom is a big feature of this tiny home.
It's actually not tiny. Um, you'd be surprised at the size of everything,
especially the shower
building with the tiny home. We had to have a little bit of flexibility with uh,
the stuff that was in here. TV was a big thing.
So what we did is we put it on a bracket on the wall so it can rotate and it can
be facing the lounge room or we can actually have it rotating so it faces the
bedroom.
So this is the bedroom. Uh, it has a queen size bed in it,
and then we've even put in a little wardrobe so people can put their clothes and
stuff like that in here too. So living in Denver.
We get both types of climate. So in summer it's boiling hot in here.
And then in winter we have snow. So it's really cold.
So the great thing about our container home is the heater AC unit.
So it's adaptable to whatever climate we'll find here in Denver.
In our tiny home, we have the queen size bed,
but we also wanted to put in a sofa bed so that when the three of us,
my husband, myself, and my son come and sleep in here,
we have a bed for him as well.
Now we have two queen size beds.
The end product is really quite incredible.
And people who walk into the tiny home, they walk in and they go, wow.
I hope you guys enjoyed this week's story.
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