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in today's video we're going to meet a family whose teen daughters needed a little bit more
independence how many of you parents out there can relate to that so what did they decide to do
they purchased two container homes and place them in their backyard for the girls to live in
we're going to take a tour of these container homes and learn what the family plans to do
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hi i'm matt and these are my tiny homes built out of 40 foot shipping containers in henderson nevada
my girlfriend and i we used to live across the street from each other
we had teenage kids neither house was big enough for the whole family about three years ago we
started kind of hunting around and we found this house it was a complete fixer-upper but when we
saw this yard and the blank slate that it was we thought okay we'll put these containers in
for the next couple years started discussing it how well it would work how sustainable reusable
gives our teenage daughters some autonomy and some space but still in the backyard we pulled
the sewer the power and the water from the house so they don't have their own independent systems
we extended the systems on the house they delivered them here they craned them over the
house the entire install process took literally four hours basically no tiny house in the morning
and by three o'clock two tiny homes fully ready to rock and roll so this is our guy tony lopez
we started googling around we wanted a local company someone that would come see the yard
all that kind of thing he was located in las vegas a couple miles down the street from us so
we kind of contacted with him and he came over saw our vision and helped it all come to life
we thought okay we'll put these containers in for the next couple years
the girls can live in there but we both have aging sets of parents that are getting older
and we thought well if we had these storage containers we have this multi-generational setup
that we could put them out there they could have their own autonomy to a degree then
but we would have eyes on them we could check in on them it beats assisted living these
will work for years and years and years it's a perfect fit for a larger family
i ended up actually moving in and starting to rent it out from them just because i needed
somewhere to live for a short period of time which would be my own personal space
currently this is my first year at unlv living on campus is never really something i wanted to do
i really like being around my dad i mean he's one of my best friends and i couldn't imagine
being away from him so being able to stay at home and also have my own space is really nice
shipping container homes you know from a sustainability point of view here they are
in our backyard repurposed as opposed to ending up in a rust or a landfill they're efficient
they have full closed cell blown in insulation so even in a hot vegas summers a single mini
split unit can keep them cool living in the tiny home has probably made me think about
sustainability using a lot less lights a lot less water in the future when i get my own house
i probably want it to be sustainable and eco-friendly
each container is 40 foot by 8 foot wide so they're 340 square feet each the container homes
themselves were about 60 000 each fully furnished they're about seventy thousand dollars each
hi my name is maddie and this is my container home
right now i'm standing in the living area and it has a tv and seating area it's nice
to just hang out and relax and then the couch also pulls out to a full-size bed
this is my tiny right here that i'm renting out from maddie's dad
this is just like my little area right here that i call the living room he likes to hang out here
the most playing with his toys and stuff back there that's where he likes to sleep
sometimes i like to play on the xbox right here we'll play with my buddies and stuff i kind of
made it to where you're not seeing too many wires and stuff like that just because small space you
want to make it look nice on this side there's a kitchenette and there used to be a microwave up
there too but i took it out because i wanted more space for stuff there's a sink a little
snack bin that i have a bunch of food and then i have a mini fridge with a bunch of drinks
there is an induction stove in here but i never cook in here i live at home i'll go
in there and use their kitchen so if i did want to cook in here i could i just don't
and then that's the microwave it's pretty efficient all the space right here i keep all
my dishes out here everything's compact and even like this right here that's all you really need
down here this is the bathroom there's a shower right here the thing that's a
little bit different about this one is just the metal walls in here it's a cool
little design i didn't get to choose it in the beginning but i ended up lucking out with that
when you go down this hallway is my bathroom
there's built-in shelving i use each level for different sections of what i would do to get ready
and this is probably my favorite part of it is the mirror is a touch to turn on led light mirror
this is probably one of my favorite parts too is the barn sliding door
even further down this hallway is my bedroom
i kind of keep like a little bookshelf right here i like to read journal
and stuff like that so i'll keep pens journal and all that stuff right next to my thing
and then last thing right here is just the closet i've kind of used the space as good
as i can in here most of my stuff is pretty compact in there and it all fits super well
this is my bedroom and when they built it they added a ton of storage space so
if i pull these out i have a bunch of storage containers under there
and it's kind of just old stuff from when i did cheer or winter clothes i have a built-in dresser
underneath the bed and then i have posters of all my favorite artists another tv in here
my dad added these they're just drilled in kind of extra hangers but i also do have a
closet on this side for more storage it could be a walk-in if you had less stuff than i did
but i had to add more storage so i put in those hanging shelves and i
have one for shoes and one for shirts and then i have a bunch of stuff hanging up
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