Hi everyone! We're Hunter and Derrik. Our journey began in 2021 when we purchased our first piece of land in northern Michigan with one goal: to create some of the best and most unique vacation rentals in the state. North of Nowhere is our channel where we document this adventure of building one-of-a-kind stays, and everything we've learned along the way.
Hunter is an avid traveler who has visited over 51 countries, and Derrik is a content creator and CPA. We share our lives with our two dogs, Memphis and Tully, and our daughter, Whitley, who are our whole world.
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I'd watched the other video's before this one. I really like the design a lot and I've been searching for tall compact home designs for years. A lot of my focus has been on modern Japanese designs. One house that really inspired me was called The Shirokane House, which is featured on Arch Daily. In Japan, there are a lot of long thin tall houses, but not many that have more of a square footprint. There's also an interesting one in Sydney, made from concrete over 5 floors with a garage on the bottom. In all the designs we looked at, garages on the bottom complicate the build and use up valuable living space, so we have departed from that design. What we have now come up with is actually similar to yours but with a smaller footprint of about 23 sqm (247 sq ft). There will be three floors at 23 sqm and then a smaller 4th floor flexible area, which can sleep 3 people and hold storage. We've designed it the opposite to yours, which means the kitchen and dining on the bottom. To fit everything in, I chose a 6 person American Diner style eating area and a similar kitchen to yours. The 2nd level is bathroom, a sauna and a laundry with storage. The 3rd level is a partially hidden master bedroom with a King bed and a built in wardrobe. There is also a small lounge and a box seat area that sticks out by 600mm (2ft). Off of the lounge is a 1m wide office nook and a ladder that climbs up to the flexible space on the 4th floor. The lounge wall height is nearly 6m high (20ft), so I intend to build in a climbing wall. The building height will max out at 11.5m (38ft). The total usable floor area will be around 70 sqm (about 750 sq ft). It will be clad with colored steel. So that's our design. The only thing I could add to yours is that I would create a large door which accesses the balcony, so that you can keep the door open in the summer and have more of an outdoor feel. I'm also not 100% sold on that additional metal balcony, even though it actually doesn't look too bad. The roof garden would be my preferred choice, but I am guessing it became a bit cost prohibitive and it's trickier to get water tight. You'd have to butenyl the whole roof and have a hip height wall all the way around. It's also not as easy to access the roof via a ladder. You will have thought about all the pros and cons no doubt. The bunk room is very interesting. 4 lots of queen bunks is quite a fit-out. I particularly like Japanese capsule beds and have thought of many designs where they can snugly fit into different spaces. Pod beds they are often called. I'm also a big fan of loft beds, but if they are your main bed, you don't want to be using ladders all the time. That's why with our design, we put the kids flexi space up the ladder. You probably thought about the inclusion of an elevator, but they waste such a lot of space, as do stairs. I made our stairs only 850mm wide (less than 3 ft), but then all of our furniture will be built in. Nothing big will go up and down the stairs. We also have to contend with earthquake risk, so the engineering and foundations are going to be a bit costly. Tall thin designs are not cheap even if the floor area is quite small. Looking forward to seeing the progress.
I really like your design. We are considering a similar design but with a smaller footprint. Our possible footprint is only 4.5m x 4.5m and rising up 11.5m, which can fit in 4 floors. I'm planning to have one box window sticking out about 600mm on the 3rd floor. I like the wrap around box on your design. It will be very interesting to see what your house looks like with all the finished cladding and also how the interior will look. In our design, weve put the kitchen/diner on the ground floor with an opening to the outside. Middle floor is bathroom, laundry and a small sauna. the 3rd level is a small lounge with the box window, a small office nook and the main bed. Above that on the 4th level is a flexible space that can look down over the lounge. Up there wwe could fit an adult bed or a few single beds and there's room for lots of storage. I'm even considering an indoor climbing wall, because the lounge ceiling rises up almost 6 meters (nearly 20 ft). I love verticle living. You said you have 4 floors. Where is the 4th? Are you counting the roof or is there storage space in the concrete base? If so, that would be ideal as a sort of cellar for food storage. How deep did your foundations have to be for this structure?
This is my dream. I am 53 years old now from Western Europe and I decided to give up my actual career and to start a degree as a carpenter in the US coming summer (already got my letter of acceptance from Iowa). If all goes well after my student visa (sounds weird coming from an 'old' guy) is over I hope to be able to get an immigrant worker visa and stay officially in the US. All I want in the future is to find a plot like that and build my own home (A-frame or a similar tiny home), then make a living of that using recycling materials and offering off-grid solutions (solar, rain water, etc ...). In any case, you just earned a subscriber and I am looking forward to see what you're making of it.
I think you are wrong in so many conclusions. Maybe your architects were a bad choice. Some things might be true, but if you choose to make a boring qube, of course this is the most easy to build, thats why most people just do that. If you want to stand out on social media, maybe there are even more problems to be solved.
This video is pretty dumb. What sort of weird ass niche audience is this for? Who is specifically looking for a video about why an A frame isnt good for Airbnb investment? 😂
Why were you even considering an a-frame? It makes absolutely no sense for your application and this video isn't useful to anyone except those who are in your exact situation which probably only a small fraction of people considering building one.
You guys were going to spend a fortune on architects rather than just deciding on a plan and building it and getting people to build it. Stick to social media. That's what you know about and nothing about building.
The wells gonna cost almost double on the mountain. If your letting the contractor (builder) hire the subs its definitely gonna cost $$ you did all the leg work y not buy the meterials and hire the subs could save lots and research the meterials zip is high labor and wont be warranted if you dont fallow manufacturer installation
Thinking of building an A frame in northern Michigan using a kit. Maybe near harbor springs or up by cheboygan to be used as an STR. I know you were going to build and was too expensive. What were builders asking per sqft to build?
@@NorthofNowhere.just watched your tower cost breakdown video and saw you mentioned $275, but yeah I believe 300 to 400 for up there sounds about right unfortunately. Your A frame house looks great!
Hm... The metal material for the roof (trapeze sheet metal), thickness of.. 0.6mm (with insulation felt) we pay usually around 9 dollars per square meter (10.7639104 square feet), so it comes about less than 1 dollar per square foot. I dont know why over there the materials are so expensive..
We are building a 1400 sq ft aframe in Washington state in the Cascades. Our state building codes are more strict than Michigan (I know because I am from michigan and have built there). We have heavy snow and earthquakes (something Michiganians don't deal with). Our aframe will have a standing seam metal roof, like the one noted in this video. Our build costs are $250 per sq ft. That doesn't include septic ($25k), electricity extension ($20k), final appliances, or the price of land. But it does include the foundation. The costs discussed in this video made me bust out laughing. Getting engineered lumber, roofing, and insulation is not that difficult or all that expensive. R Value requirements also don't require spray foam. We are managing our own project, not using a general contractor, which only doubles costs.
I have fallen in love with A-frames recently. I have started some new designs and have put up my first animation for a simple A-frame sleepout on my channel.
Hopefully you bought it to live in and not rent as an air bnb. Air bnb has crippled the upper peninsula for natives and renters thanks to greedy people trying to make fast money.
in northern michigan, we have certain insulation values and code that make it more difficult and expensive nowadays. It used to be a cheaper way to build, but it costs just as much, if not more up here.
Wow! ❤ Someone 🍀 already snatched this up for Christmas! I cannot believe the transformation- absolutely beautiful. I am looking forward to staying here sometime soon. Glad I found your channels today. My beat friend in high school bought a A frame when she got married- we all loved her place unlike anything we ever knew & she painted like any 19 year old should CRAZY 🤪 so this has A has a warm place in my heart , the creek makes it extra special for sure. Looking forward to catching up on your story and videos.
