Tiny, portable, prefab cube shelters in medieval French town

[zck7]

Very nice. If I win the lottery, I'll move to France and live in one.

[relaxshacksDOTcom]

This video should be ON FIRE! wth? What a cool place! Great work Kirsten!

[kirstendirksen]

@relaxshacksDOTcom Thanks Deek. It was just a fun stop on a roadtrip through France after a friend's wedding. Actually felt kind of out of context to find this woman with a very old chateau and then these 5 cubes in her backyard, plus a circus caravan for rent.

[superman19121976]

that is just simply amazing....great space inside....

[ECsponger2]

I would like to place my order now...

[YiuTeub]

I built my entire home of resin and fiberglass. I will be posting late next year when it is complete.

[olden89c]

@YiuTeub What are you using for insulation? I imagine your winters are as bad as ours.

[YiuTeub]

@olden89c I live in Saskatchewan. We built pole style. We are using blow in insulation over the upper girt. 6 1/2" thick. The glass keeps out air nicely. Vapor barrier inside still. It is way unconventional. Doing compost toilet under the home and greywater to a pit or trees when we plant them. Bio-filter the gunk from the greywater before subjecting it to the soil. Built it for a low cost. AND since its resin, it just needs paint every now and then. It looks like a bomb shelter right now though

[olden89c]

@YiuTeub Thanks YiuTeub, that was very interesting to hear. I'm only considering doing something similar, along those lines in principle, but it's nice to hear other people actually having a go and making it work. Now, I just have to choose what part of my country to put it in. :)

[loudwaters9]

good survival shelter,

wouldn't want to live in it for long.

[sarahmagradcsulb]

Where can you purchase these? And do they ship to the US?

[ross817]

I would be willing to live in that.

[spider23000]

Il y a beaucoup d'espace si l'on considère qu'il est seulement 3 mètres de large

[loudwaters9]

Oh France,

I'd live under a rock,

if I could live where she is.

[galenator123]

@loudwaters9 actually living under a rock would be awsome, like an under ground house and the roof is a rock?

[loudwaters9]

@galenator123

Look up troglodyte homes in France.

Great, but to have tons of soil and rock fall on you during an earthquake, such as luck would have it and all.....

[ThePsycheSociety]

the doucher!

[yafola1]

This is cute and the lady seems really nice, but you can go to the Tumbleweed tiny house company and buy the plans for something much nicer at a much better overall cost. There is a 7 by 14 house on wheels (wheebee) that costs about 20,000 to build.

[olden89c]

@yafola1 No, not everyone can buy those plans you speak of. You are talking about two different continents. There are different building codes and climates to consider.

[OscarBlackEagle]

Neat! First thing I would do is side the building.

[low72]

Personally I would have the window on the roof open up and I would have a patio on top of it, that would be cool.

[MrNewkindom]

its AWESOME!!! i want that!!!

[MrChrisTowerton]

Love it!... Thanks for posting

[marilyn614]

Seeing as my city is currently facing a housing crisis, I would like to see it investing into small homes aimed towards single college students who can't afford apartments or houses...

[ESUTERURE]

Magnifique. 

[RETIREMESOON]

I'm doing 500 square feet on a pontoon boat 30 feet by 16.Free living on water with solar motor and led,wood stove and propane and get this .

500 suare feet for 2 people and the government loves my idea.

Cost is $ 40,000 and that's it.Plans are $500.00 and you get $400.00 back when you do a You Tube video for advertising.

[MatthewCravatt]

I do like the video, but I don't like subtitles.

[keithko007]

Excellent and beautiful design

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[qpae123]

Is expensive cose is made from ''french wood'':)) U understant the irony. If the wood was walnut or cherry but it wasnt french olalalala mon dieu, c'est ne pas posible:))) they could not ask 40 000 $.

PS: U found anyone trying to take a dump in ur '' house'' by mistake?:))

[TheKvaitke]

@qpae123 I may be misunderstanding them, but from the time I spent in Europe a few years ago (I'm from the Midwest), I learned that expensive was often used as a way of saying "high quality". There was really an atittude of "you get what you pay for" and saying that something was low-cost also implied that it was poorly made. I think she might be saying that it was made locally-not imported, and that it's of high quality, so you pay for that in the price.

[qpae123]

@TheKvaitke Still a King Size hy quality portable toilet :)) If u want to kill a claustrophobic people do that.

My house has 430 square meters, I live alone and still I found it small :))

[qpae123]

@qpae123 PS : I am 6'6 :)) now u understand why i hate this toilet?:))

[olden89c]

@qpae123 Somehow I doubt you have 430 sq meters to yourself.

Also you can't buy an apartment in France for a mere $40.000. There's a reason Romanians flock to the West. Salaries are higher. You don't sound very experienced or well traveled.

[qpae123]

@olden89c U understand in Romania are verry rich people and the poor people like any other country on this planet? Of course the pour people are the ones forced to emigrate .But in this times I dont wish that to noone.

[olden89c]

@qpae123 Yes, however you are the one that seems to forget that Romanians are "poorer" on average than the average French person. You cannot compare prices without taking salaries into acount. It's called purchasing power parity.

Romania's a fine country, but you can't talk about how cheap everything is there without talking about the background for that...

[qpae123]

@olden89c Sorry to disapoint u but I am quite rich lol ,and even I was trilionaire I would not buy this crap house .

[qpae123]

@olden89c I was 10 years ago in ur country , In Monte Carlo, Channes, Nice was quite nice, as a tourist, but this days to be honest I wouldnt go. Ur country is full of gypsies,beggars ( I know cose they left from here Thank god they are nomads:)) many places I seen are quite misarable . Opening borbers and helping our countrys to get rid of all our scums, was a blessing for us here ! I prefer other destination to domy vacations now.

[olden89c]

@qpae123 I'm not from France... Your description of France is wildly incorrect, I've been there on vacations myself lately.

If you actually went to Monte Carlo you should know that Monaco is not French.

[qpae123]

@olden89c Yes and Vatican is Not Italian lol, I visited the Palace, I seen the Guard change,( nothing spacial, most boring guard change I ever seen) , and palace was not special either, More interesting was the Museum of Oceanography. I was in 1999, And I remember were selling a comemorative coint in every ciTy, PS We had/ have here in Romania lots nicer places then Monte Carlo.

[olden89c]

@qpae123 Monaco has its charm, if nothing else. France and Italy were a number of smaller states so your derision is undeserved. If you read the history of the region you will soon see.

I'm sure Romania has its charms as well, my parents visited in the 1970s. It's just easier to visit Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Their tourist industry is more mainstream. Not that I want to visit those countries ever again, I'm sticking with Italy and France.

[qpae123]

@olden89c Wach this Maybe u ll learn some about the real Romania, This is Romania capital:

/watch?v=jbd7fM82zG0&feature=f­vwrel

[qpae123]

That '' Toillet on roids '' U can buy in Romania for around 1000 euros / 1500 $ . How stupid are u people in France to pay for it 40 000 $ ? With 40 000 $ u buy a concrete apartment not a wood toilet :)

[qpae123]

Makes me nervous only wach this video:))))))

[qpae123]

I hate small spaces, I thinck I go insane a destroy it in 5 minutes:)) then use the wood for a barbeque:))

[Anothercoilgun]

Tres bien. Vous etes le "bomb" channel.

[hulksjedi]

Excellent concept. I wonder what the result will be if it's a bit more bigger.

[holasierra95]

Very cute :D I could personally never live in one of those but they're cute

[MadameSheep]

Want one!!

[HiJaayD]

havent seen this video yet! Thamk you kirstendirksen for sharing

[peacewavenow]

Neat concept and the build quality looks great, but I think I'd need just a little more space for a bed on the main level. My arthritis and that ladder wouldn't get along.

[baddogonline]

I'm going to be critical here: this is just not practical, and it will never catch on; there is no room for items needed for a comfortable life, a family or even privacy. If people wanted this kind of living arrangement, it would already be the norm. You would find something like this in a poverty stricken, shanty town. But, thanks for sharing...

[AerAlliance]

@baddogonline easy doggy, the point of these fine videos kirstendirksen publishes is to get us thinking about the possibilities. If you have a better idea in video I'll subscribe.

[baddogonline]

@AerAlliance Hehe, I know. That's why I'm subscribed to her. But, I think that often the green community tries so hard to be different that we ignore common sense. For example, restricting peoples' choices, or pushing corn-based gasoline which was a bad idea from start, but once it's put in motion it's difficult to reverse. Just sayin'...

[m036094]

@baddogonline  They should fit in great, in the now poverty stricken US. I have seen the tent cities all over the US and this is a better alternative than the way they are living now.

[baddogonline]

@m036094 "Tent cities all over the US?" The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated. ;) If the Canadian media is portraying the USA as having tent cities, then you are being mislead. If your are referring to the tents of the Occupy Protests then you should know that all of those people have homes, & their SEIU Socialist "Movement" has been roundly rejected by the American people. Even homeless people are offered shelters, if they follow the rules & stay off the drugs & alcohol. :)

[yafola1]

@baddogonline Thanks for explaining that. As far as the "Occupy" movement, maybe it has been rejected by some American people.......

[DreamsOfCottages]

@m036094 LOL poverty stricken US :D Where did you get that from??

[suburbanryder]

I think in the US you could have three or four of these for the price of one in France.

I like the design for such a small space.

[Carlyn3676]

That Cube is adorable! It would make neat guest cabins at the lake-House.

[KDStudiosLive]

Such beautiful little buildings.

I'd love something like that. Small, compact and best of all, beautiful.

But $40,000 is asking a bit much for it though :/

It's given me great ideas though :) So thanks for showing us this!

[spider23000]

I would actually live in one of these

[Malegnius]

That's so funny, when I used to upload videos they would ALWAYS be blocked in Germany :D Cool video, I would see myself living in one of those for a year in a forest...

[arbonac]

The price is insanely high.

[teamhunley]

I would love to live in that little space...Looks so much more appealing than Jay Shafer's Tiny Houses.

[freddiezappa]

I don't know what to say. Beautiful, very nice.

[vention4wh]

Those pods are cool but a used 5th wheel trailer (that you can buy for 8000 in the US) would serve much the same function.

[wasjunk11]

i so love this....thnx

[kirstendirksen]

A quick apology to those subscribers who have seen this video already. I uploaded it again because of it was being blocked in Germany.

I'll be removing the 1st version, but I've copied all of your comments and put them in the text above... though feel free to repeat your comments. I apologize for the inconvenience.