Building a Shipping Container Home | EP07 The Kitchen

We made built a modern kitchen in this shipping container tiny house. This is a walk-through or galley style kitchen with all of the appliances and plumbing on one side and 12-inch deep pantry cabinets and shelves on the other. We took a hybrid DIY approach and used installation services from Home Depot for the countertops, our construction workers for installing the cabinets, and we did a lot of the shelves and trim ourselves. The most unusual choice we made for this tiny house kitchen design was using an under counter refrigerator instead of a typical full height fridge. This choice trades fridge space for more countertop and food prep space and since this will be used as a vacation house and Airbnb this trade off makes sense. I did work on a design iteration that used a full height fridge on between the stove and the bathroom and added in a dishwasher as well but that pushed the kitchen room farther into the living and dining space.

Link to our DIY Hexagonal Backsplash video: https://youtu.be/Y9dYr1l-XgM

Link to the DIY Concrete Countertops video:
https://youtu.be/eyouJ9Kx1OQ

List of products we used in the container home: https://www.homedepot.com/c/openhouse

Link to the drawings for the container house: https://www.themodernhomeproject.com/#/floorplans/

Check out HomeMade Modern our DIY Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/HomeMadeModern/videos

Buying the Shipping Containers: We purchased one trip condition hi-cube containers. California requires that shipping containers used for homes have documentation showing that have not had toxic or radioactive materials in them. This normally means that you need one trip condition containers with appropriate certificates. I bought my containers from https://www.containerdiscounts.com/shipping-containers-for-sale-home-made-modern and paid $4800 each for the 40-foot hi-cube containers and $3250 for the 20-foot hi-cube container. Hi-cube containers are a foot taller than typical shipping containers.

This video is sponsored by home depot
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