Shipping Container Home Tour! Go inside Nick Jaffe's 20ft Tiny Home in Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania

Hey my name is Nick, I'm going to show you around my 20-foot container which I spent about six months converting and it's down here in Tassie and I'll show you around. Yeah it's pretty minimal, it's like fully insulated, I've got storage under the bed, everything's like completely utilitarian basically and all my books around here from sailing adventures and all that sort of stuff. The windows are just old cedar sliding windows. How long did it take you to build? About six months probably. So this container used to be over there and I hired a crane one day, just called up this guy I was like oh can you come move my container? This enormous crane, like this huge crane came out the driveway, just came straight to here, picked the container up, brought it over here and I built these like Peter's pile up and put it on there. The annoying thing like people love the idea of containers, building with containers, living in containers, but they're actually a real pain to build with. None of the dimensions are standard and you've got to deal with all the cotton steel. So like from a practical standpoint I don't know if I would have built this space out of container if I hadn't already had the container. So the container came with the property and so I just moved it and built this with it. So the real difficulty is that you've got to attach everything to steel. A lot of this is extruded polystyrene underneath which is all glued to the steel surface and then ply glued over the face of it and then a stud ceiling with insulation as well. For the first six months I didn't have that whole wall, that was just doors, there was not enough light, so I bought this window frame. It was just really practical, like I lived on boats for so long I don't need much. I needed to be able to like make coffee and for water to run out somewhere, so that's basically all I have. Like I don't have running water, like I live out of this jerry can, my 20 litre jerry can and there's no taps as you can see, but the water does drain out and everything was just made from ply. The problem with the floor of the shipping containers is that they're treated with really toxic chemicals, so you have to protect dusting because you don't want to be living with the dust from the floor. So this is just epoxy and this is just the raw floor. In future it would be nice to make a hardwood floor or something, but for now this is just a shipping container floor. Well there's just lots of little finishing things, like I would actually like to have running water, because living out of a 20 litre jerry can is not always convenient. I'd like to do something with this space, maybe a small little mini couch or something. So everything's about trying to get what you want, like the result, like I want a couch, but also trying to make that utilitarian, so it's got to have storage or it's got to pack away, fold away. How much do you reckon you spent fixing this up with like everything, all your materials? Probably about $3,000, but it was a lot of, it's a lot of work, it was a lot of work. These I bought from my friend for $50 and I bought that window for $100 and I bought that door, I think it actually still has the price tag of $65. I don't like your doorstop, it's just nature. You know what you need? You need to find yourself a bathtub, in an outdoor bath, that's the best scenario. That would be sweet. That's your next job Nick, after you've finished all your troubles. The deck is non-engineered and probably can't support more than three people. The deck dimensions match the interior container dimensions. You doubled your footprint? Yeah, doubled the footprint, so that was the idea. The deck is pretty much cantilevered, so the idea was that you could just pull the deck off and then you could just move the container. So my actual dream is to build an actual like 60 square meter house here and then to crane this over to there as my workshop. That's sort of what I'm working towards, that's the dream. This one was decommissioned I think in the early 2000s. This is a pretty beat up old container, but it's still watertight. Problematic isn't it? Everything's affixed at top and bottom only? Yeah, just to get all glued on the surfaces, so that you don't compromise the integrity of the waterproofing. What do you love most about this particular part of Tassie? I love the views, I love the access to surf, I love that. You know, it's only an hour from Hobart, 45 minutes from the airport. I mean, it's just super raw down here, you know, and I love that. Thanks for checking out my 18 square meters of paradise. Cheers. Pretty good. And you've got an office? I've got my office. And there's your reboots ready to go out. So you're running a fully fledged business. No, I'm just picking packs right out of the gate. This is my warehouse.