Go to https://www.thorum.com/ and use promo code TINY to get 15% off a truly unique ring or watch! In this weeks episode we explore two 20ft high cube shipping containers that have been transformed into an incredible modern urban home. Situated on a steep section with breathtaking views overlooking the city, this home is truly impressive.
One container contains the bedroom, bathroom and an impressive walk-in-style wardrobe, while the other houses the kitchen and living room. The two containers are joined by an undercover area which shelters a large outdoor lounge and dining space. This is an impressive design!
The home has an undeniable industrial look thanks to the containers which have been largely left unaltered from their days at sea. The exterior celebrates their history, with the painted shipping numbers still exposed, yet stepping inside, the interior quickly feels like a true home, softened with modern, cosy design. Germaine perfectly describes her shipping container home's style as being soft-industrial.
It never ceases to amaze me how shipping containers in all their industrial glory can be transformed into such welcoming and comfortable homes.
We hope you enjoy the full tour of this brilliant shipping container home.
Our Socials and Links: https://linktr.ee/livingbig
Find out more about this tiny house and others on our website: https://www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com/
Presented and Produced by: Bryce Langston
‘Living Big in a Tiny House' © 2024 Zyia Pictures Ltd
#shippingcontainerhouse #architecture #modern
It will always amaze me how people can transform shipping containers into such beautiful homes. When looking at a shipping container, essentially an industrial tool, there’s nothing about it that should make us think of anything that resembles the notion of home. And yet, people can take these metal boxes and transform them into the most wonderful abodes. Modern, comfortable and cosy, Germaine’s container home is a perfect example of this. We hope you enjoy the tour! With Love, Bryce & Rasa
Absolutely gorgeous! I love it!
What a beautiful design ! And I love the glass of veuve cliquot, you are my kind of people 😂
The thumbnail looks like a screenshot from an adventure game made in 2009.
This tiny house is one of your most interesting homes you have featured on your channel. I absolutely love it. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
Beautiful home!
Can we please talk about the beautiful color scheme 🤩
What an amazing house!! All of the ‘Living Big In A Tiny House’ episodes are amazing and give me lots of inspiration for living in my tiny house one day after retirement. Thanks, Bryce and team.
great property, love the space, the proximity to family and her overall vibe
Beautiful home. It would have been really simple to join the two containers together (flip the couch 180 and add a walkway entrance that connects to the hallway in the bedroom container)… so seems strange not to do it. Especially for resale value if you ever want to sell. Then again,I guess new owners could do that. Other than that, lovely design.
What a lovely space she has out there😃😃😃
Yes, a shipping container home! It’s been a while. 😃
I love how wonderful and comfortable space Germaine has created for herself. 😊
Beautiful tiny house. I like it.👍👍👍👍
A beautiful home and definitely one of my favourites but I take it she likes entertaining because she just dropped it in a couple of times lol
What a pleasure to watch a hairdresser cut an avocado and wash dishes with graceful, precise movements typical of her trade. Lovely practical home with wonderful aesthetic choices. Raissa shot many an art film-worthy moment in this video.
This is my dream & probably one of my favorites. She is amazing!
A gorgeous repurposing, thank goodness she held firm on that bespoke roof, and the styling — fabulously intentional, so grounding, just serene.
For anyone intrigued, that portable, rotating smartTV is the LG StanbyME, and it’s crushing it in flexible space design.
Thanks for another inspiring tour, Bryce, the movement continues to enthral me!
I love where this home is positioned, overlooking that water but yet also on the outskirts of the city.
I wish we had seen the entrance a bit more clearly, it looks as though there’s a gate type of front door? Leading into a hallway, with coat and shoe storage, and I love that area, but the door itself freaks me out a little bit.
There’s a big gap at the top of the door and you can see light coming the edges, so essentially it’s not a door as such, but more a gate. So when she leaves her home or goes to bed at night, she must have to lock up the two separate containers, because as sturdy as that gate is, it’s not impossible for someone to slide over the top.
To me that would be the downside to this home, in that, the whole thing together forms a “home” but from a safety point of view, it’s still very much two separate boxes. I’d want to go to bed without needing to lock up the kitchen door, and then lock myself into the bedroom door, carrying keys with me, just to go to bed.
I know it’s highly unlikely someone is going to shimmy over her outer gate, but at the same time, it’s not 100% safe, unless she locks each container individually. To me, that would interrupt the feel of he entire place feeling like one “home”.
I do love the fact she’s separated the two containers to create that outdoor space under a bigger roof, and I really like the space that forms the entrance hallway leading in from the gate. I love the position of the kitchen and lounge facing the water, and also the position of the bedroom and bathroom, especially as the bathroom is tucked away in it’s own discreet corner. There’s a lot to love about this place for sure.
However the downsides for me would definitely be:
1. The front door/gate entrance, because it’s not completely protecting the entire home within. ESPECIALLY as she’s now put her home out there for public viewing!!!
2. The fact both boxes must be locked individually at night or when she goes out. Imagine locking your door at night, and then needing to lock up your kitchen, lounge, bedroom and bathroom too before going to bed! That would make your home feel like you’re living in shared accommodation as you can’t wander freely from room to room.
3. I know she said she’s lived there a full year and it “works” but there’s no way it can feel great getting up in the middle of winter and dashing outside to go make breakfast in the other box. That’s not practical at all. If there’s torrential rain and it’s very windy, especially that high up, there’s no way that half triangular roof completely protects you from getting wet walking from one to the other. You can see the ground is wet in the video and just how close to the front room door the wet ground is. In a driving wind that rain is gonna get you, or force you to wait in one box until it eases off. I do love the outside area, but I don’t like needing to rely on it as a link between two separate boxes.
4. The separation of the home from the garden. She has to go back out the front and then walk down to access her garden. She says she loves entertaining but her current deck only works for that weather permitting, and in the summer, guests are limited to fit only within that area as they can’t spill from the house, to the deck to the garden. She can’t just open the door to the garden so grandchildren can run freely in or out, someone would have to accompany them each and every time. If a child fell playing outside, you can’t run directly to them, you have to back up on yourself to get to them.
……………………….
It looks lovely, I like the design, I like how simple and fresh it is, I like all of it to “look” at in fact. I think it’s clever that by parking the two containers a distance apart it supports a larger roof overall. But the dashing from one room to another, the necessity to lock all doors individually and the fact the garden is separated from direct access, would make this feel like I was living in shared accommodation or a hotel, going downstairs to a communal garden. It doesn’t “flow” as much as I would want it to, if it was my own private home. I see the house is balanced on a concrete garage below…? I’m thinking, if that had been knocked down, and the house placed on it’s FOUNDATION rather than it’s ROOF, it would have easier to create an easier link between the home and garden. She’d have had the same view simply by lopping the tops of trees down. In fact I’d have incorporated that garage into a lower level of my home. It’s obviously doable despite looking a bit worse for wear, because it’s strong enough to support her house! So it’s a secure structure with solid walls, it would have made sense to use that space for more than just elevation.
But, I do like it. She’s a lovely lady and very attractive, and has a lovely figure too. She won’t be single for long, or needn’t be if that’s something she wanted. My thoughts are not criticisms of her style and design, more just concerns I’d have if this was my own home. Please thank her very much for sharing. 😘
I like it, except for the triangle roof