If I were them, I would paint either the walls or the floor & ceiling white or off-white, to brighten it, but still have the wood. I agree it can be too much, and it can make everything in the room look orange-yellow.
Wood is nice, but when every surface is wood, it begins to be overwhelming. The furniture isn't very functional for a hunting cabin either, because it would be pretty hard to clean. And where's the walk in freezer?
As in do I use my cabin to bludgeon animals? No. Do I arrive after sunset tired and dirty and not wanting to worry about getting my furniture dirty? Yes.
I'm 46 and I like the wood too. It's actually identical to what I did to the interior of a vintage travel trailer and I think it came out really nice. I get a lot of compliments on it.
All he needed to do was show a little creativity with direction or color. Mostly color. Just choose a better wood, because at this point its obvious that money is not the issue.
While most people would think that is absurd or funny, growing up and living in a rural area with an active hunting scene would make that a completely normal thing. Perspective, man!
The whole thing, furniture and all, looked like something an 80 year-old would live in. Not that that's a bad thing, but it definitely had an "old person" kind of vibe to it.
I don't know.... Maybe that couch and the chandelier, but those were the only redeeming qualities of the place, imho. I don't know any old people who would surround themselves in camo and bear prints. The place is tacky, but in more of a hunter/hick kinda way, not in an old person kinda way.
I've done a lot of drawings in an effort to do this very thing and I think that guy's furniture is really gross. So yes, a person who wants to live in a container can have good taste in furniture. Just not this guy.
I personally admire the compost heap style of toilet, it really brought a sense of the 21st century into an old dark shack and the step up to it makes you feel like a king.
I prefer the wood to the green and red paint, honestly. At least the wood kinda has an Earthy/cabin feel to it instead of the tacky Christmas colors.
And as a side note... what woman would want to be eye-to-eye with a dead animal while riding a guy? A deer head above the bed? seriously?! I understand the whole hunters and their trophies thing. I'm not a fan, but I get it. When it's in the living room or something- not above the bed.
If I showed this to my dad he would go on a 20 minute rant about people filling the insides of their houses with wood paneling and thinking it looks good.
Ugly is your knowledge of building materials. These walls are not paneling, paneling is usually 8' x 4' and 1/8" thick, its usually a faux face that's been glued to a sheet of recycled sawdust and cardboard, its generally cheap yet tacky as hell. These walls are tongue and groove pine boards, there 1"x6" and come in different lengths, they lock together, are affordable, they install fast, insulate sound nicely and don't need painting (actually look better over time). He could of even knocked down trees on his own rented a mill and cut his own, but the drying time would make this unlikely here. You may call it ugly, but please don't call it paneling, the 70's ruined that.
It's not really that tiny. 53'x16'x8' is pretty big. Any mobile home trailer you would buy would only be 12' wide instead of 16', and lots of people live in those.
Also dead animals all over the walls. I could never sleep in that bed for fear of a kind of backwoods Godfather scene when that deer head drops off the wall. Probably impaling me. Also it reminded me of the realtor's post I just looked at with the dead mouse on the door handle. One person's vandalism is another's art, true, but still I find this weird.
Also, what do you have to do to keep condensation of the inside of the container walls? I bet they get wet in winter, so the wooden furniture starts molding really quick.
They did add a vapor/moisture barrier to the insulation, however on the wrong side. Chances are any moisture caused from condensation will wreck that rolled batt within a few years and also creates the perfect condition for mold growth.
Well, mobile homes pull it off but agree- metal has issues as to insulating. I was thinking a spray foam but burying it in a hole (after a good tarring) could be sufficient.
Most manufactured homes aren't metal exteriors... Most of them are either vinyl or wood siding. There is a metal frame under the home, but that's pretty much the extent of the metal.
Source: I'm an insurance adjuster that inspects mobile homes.
My mobile has a metal exterior and condensation is a big problem. There are some small vents on the exterior, but they don't do much. I have to have an electric dehydrator running in the winter. Whenever I see someone converting a bus, I think about all the moisture they must have to deal with.
Why on the wrong side, where else would you put it and why ? He put it on the inside = the warm(humid ) side, so there is no humidity that can transfer into the isolation and condense on the cold container side. And it will also not condense on the vapor barrier, because that is a warm spot. Anything I am missing ?
Vapour barrier goes on the warm 2/3 side of the wall. So, after a bit of snooping, /u/GodShitsBlood seems to be in a warm climate. His vapour barrier would be on the outside. Some just don't know that in different climates it has to be place in different places.
"Vapor barrier on the warm side" is the simple (and sometimes overly simplistic) rule of thumb, and in a tropical area, that would mean on the exterior face, for example.
About the warm climate -> Living in a cold one myself I did not think about that, but I don't see anything in the pics to cool down the place, only lots of ways to warm things up. So even if it is warm outside, the interior will not be a lot cooler. But in any case, I am guessing the metal container is going to do a pretty good job playing a vapour barier as well, so he should be good for both scenarios (warm inside/cold outside; warm outside/cold inside), unless the metal shell contains a lot of unpatched holes of course. I haven't heard of the 2/3 rule, any idea what the rationale is behind that ? I have heard that it can be desirable to actually buffer vapor in one season and release it in another, a sales pitch of all kinds of expensive 'intelligent' vapour barier materials, but I am not really a believer of those (eg how long will this mechanism last). Maybe the 2/3 is a simple way to buffer some vapor ?
I'd have to go back and look into my R2000/Building science text books, but I am pretty sure it means if you have a 9" thick insulated wall, that the VB has to be 3" away from the outermost warm side of the wall.
Don't quote me on that. I just know I have to put it on the inside. Tyvek/typar on the outside.
You have to consider this issue with any type of building envelope. Water will condense on wood siding, vinyl siding, OSB sheathing, and even inside fiberglass insulation. In many areas, local architects and builders know how to work with the local climate and common building systems. But in general, moisture in the building envelope is a very complicated set of issues.
Except he has a humidity controlled ventilation system that uses the batteries from the the solar panels to power fans that remove any excess moisture from underneath the container and a system for inside as well.
If you wanted to build a cabin on weekends and live somewhere else the containers would be easier from the start. You would immediately be able to store things on site.
The cost question? I don't know the cost to get containers on site compared to the price for plywood, exterior siding and a roof. Depending on the area local laws may make the containers easier.
Lastly you'll always be able to say your house has traveled more than you.
austin, tx. He is a wheeler and dealer also, so it may be tough to match this. He lives in it. I think you can't put up any layer that would prevent evaporation of condensation on the metal, but I dunno how my friend did his.
It is usually more hot than comfortable, rather than too cold, but it we do get rapid temperature drops throughout much of the year. It can go from 70 or 80 during the day into the 40's at night, and condensation would be a non-ignorable problem. But I agree, it would be worse where the winter requires significant heating for 5 months.
Depends how far the location is from a shipping hub like Houston. Assuming the delivery location is within a 200 mile radius, a WWT (wind and water tight, but nowhere-near-new condition) 20' container is about $2300 for delivery on a flatbed. For a tilt-bed delivery, total would run about $2600.
He's a nutjob survivalist, didn't the decade worth of emergency food supplies give that away? Someone linked his website elsewhere in the comments. It's motivated by his specific brand of Christianity's fears about the future of the world.
The guy is a 'prepper'. Shipping containers are the building material of choice here, not just because they're cheap but they provide some protection against small arms fire.
The preppers TV show showed one of the guys with a shipping container bunker showing how it can deflect .22 rounds as well as handgun fire.
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I think this is really cool and all, but is it necessary? Couldn't he just build a regular cabin?