How To Build A Home For Less Than $50,000 | Indoor | Great Home Ideas

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Published 2015-08-21
Dreaming of owning your own home but convinced you can’t afford it? This week Adam, Jason and Pete team up for one of our biggest makes ever, literally building a home from scratch for under $50,000 – using a shipping container!

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All Comments (21)
  • @izagdlife
    i just love contemporary designs with decent price. Most times it amaze me greatly the way I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $63k per month, utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years to doubt that opportunities are bound in the financial markets, The only thing is to know where to focus.
  • You make building a home from a shipping container looks so easy. It’s not only economical but also beautiful. I love this idea. All it took was a shipping container and common sense.
  • I am from South Africa and truly believe is type of housing could help out housing problem and create jobs within the community..steel work carpentry plumbing etc..thank you for a wonderful video
  • @NoteFromSELF
    I'd love to see what it looks like today, 3 years later. I want to see what the climbing plants look like now.
  • @MontyJ804
    $45,000?  That is at least a million dollar view, great work guys I love it! I am a big fan of alternative living whether it's Tiny Homes, RVs, campervans, and container homes. Gotta love the imagination!
  • @Propertyexit
    They should of showed how they did the electrical and plumbing,.
  • @DanteBland
    I have been looking at tiny homes for the last few months this is how I want my house.
  • @bobbibarnes257
    Cannot believe just how beautiful this looks and to think it started out as a shipping container. It's really gorgeous. Great work!:)
  • @Corpst
    Someday in the future (probably 10-20 years) I will build my own shipping container. I'd use about 4-5 containers though.
  • @mortycremwatch
    This is absolutely incredible. I've always wanted to build a shipping container house and this is really inspiring. The pop-out and angled windows are ideas I might have to 'borrow'. Great work on the outside too. I love the ivy but I prefer when shipping containers houses are left to look like shipping containers. That wouldn't be appropriate here though. I think Adam might be the smiliest man on Earth.
  • @helened6896
    What's not to love? More people should do this and grow their food. Bravo!
  • @hutoxipatel3610
    Such a beautiful home out of shipping container. The best part is that they gave a full one of the v smart tutorial how to build it. Hats off for creating such a beautiful home n a beautiful garden in such a beautiful natural surrounding
  • @Momma_AL
    This is one of the nicest shipping container homes I've ever seen! So simple and clean. I love it!
  • @J297WFD
    Love it. This video just convinced my wife to let us build on on some land! I'm excited thanks for the video!
  • @carolnoble80
    It’s amazing the space in the container when the hose is constructed. Wow.
  • This is the best I have seen so far. Thank you for making this look so simple! My husband and I are planning to retire on our land. We love this!
  • @Auriculares05
    Gosh, I LOVE this. I'd love to build something like this on the perfect piece of land.
  • @lavatinman
    I have put alot of though into this. I would use welded angle iron frames to reinforce the door and window openings and set the windows in flush with the wall like in a normal house. I would use metal studs for framing, using the narrow studs to furr the exterior walls. Insulation would be sprayed on urethane foam which provides insulation and vapour barrier in one. This can also be applied to the roof and coated for added insulation and roofing in one, which would be my prefernce for joining multiple units. The exterior could also be clad in ridgid styrofoam insulation and then sided over with choice of exterior finish.Or because these are made from Corten Steel they could be sand blasted and left to rust for a natural almost rustic look with no worry of the shell rusting away. I would sand and stain the floors and use an epoxy based sealant. This way any possible contamination would be sealed , and the Teak plywood is naturally beautiful. The rest of the construction would be standard practices. One would have to keep in mind local buildings codes, most juristictions would require an engineer because of the non typical construction type. Also cutting open large sections or stacking and cantilevering them would require substantial reinforcement. These may not be a cheap building type for everyone, but for someone with metal working skills, construction knowledge and access to heavy equipement and tools it would be reasonable. 2 major advntages are that you are starting with a weather tight enclosure, and they are modular and easily moved meaning they could be constructed offsite which has substantial savings for cabins/ homes in remote areas.
  • @spewter
    The relentless enthusiasm from everyone as well as that music is hiding something truly dark and horrifying. We all know this in our hearts. Stay safe, guys. Stay safe.
  • @devantier3856
    this man lived my dream!!! Congratulations, the container house turned out to be the most beautiful thing in the world, and being able to see this happy man made my night a thousand times better. :)