This guy built a spaceship home & everyone wants to see inside...

Hi there. Welcome to my channel, where I take you on tours of unique homes and sometimes out of this world spaces. In fact, in today's episode, we're featuring a home that feels like it is quite literally from another planet. Inspired by 1960s space television, this UFO home features a full flight console. I'm not even looking. Complete lunar lounge. Anything I can get you? And a freezing tube bay that allows you to stay as long as you'd like. It's really comfortable. Believe it or not, this is not the first spaceship home that we featured on this channel. So if you'd like to see more, make sure you check out the playlist we have linked in the description. And if you like videos like this, where we showcase amazing and unique spaces, make sure that you subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you know every single time we publish a new episode. Hi, I'm Kirby. Welcome to my spaceship. About eight years ago, we heard this loud noise and the spaceship crashed, barely missed our house. It's like 30 feet away, landed right on top of the dog house. Poor Pluto. I'm kidding. His name was Lucky. I'm a musician and I've been playing for over 30 years in bands and by myself. I once wrote a song called Spaceship and it was about building a spaceship in my backyard. That song was written before any of this was any kind of a solid dream. About eight years ago, we decided we needed to build a bigger space for our boys' cars and our lawnmowers. We live on five acres. The idea was to build a two car garage and then a shop on top. I said as a joke to my wife, wouldn't it be cool if we built a spaceship on top of it? And then she said we should do that. It's really thanks to my wife that the spaceship exists at all because I never would have had the courage to do it on my own. Went to an architect, showed him some blueprints of a spaceship from a TV show called Lost in Space from back in the sixties. And we told them we would love to have a full sized version of this ship. They drew up the plans and then we shopped around and found someone who was willing to take on this project. It had a lot of challenges and that it really hadn't been done before. We kept running into all these expenditures that wouldn't occur if you were building just a regular four sided house. Nothing is ever cheap when it comes to anything you want to do in a spaceship. If you want it to look cool and look like it belongs here, practically everything had to be custom made. Once we had it so that it was weatherproof, it was just a matter of sourcing out to finish the wiring, the plumbing. And then I did a lot of the things that take more imagination than skill. Initially the idea was to build something that would be kind of a party space, a man cave. We talked about how can we monetize the space. Being a musician, I thought, well, maybe bands would like to put on small shows here. Maybe they would like to record here. Then I realized bands are notoriously broke. I could see that it wouldn't be something that we could do constantly. It kind of evolved into why don't we try renting it out as an Airbnb. It basically took right off and no pun intended. It ended up being about $150,000 altogether from pouring the concrete to what you see today. Over the course of eight years, it seemed like it was a lot while we were out here with our friends having little parties and stuff. I was always thinking about someday I'll do this. Someday I'll do that. And it's just really fulfilling to finally be to that point where it's done. Hello and welcome to the spaceship built about eight years ago, 726 square feet, about 40 feet in diameter. That's pretty big, but you also have to keep in mind that the walls do drop down the further out you go. So I guess it wouldn't be fair to say that it's all completely usable square footage. So although the spaceship looks like it's out of this world, it's actually a stick frame construction with torch down material for the covering on the outside. It has two sets of windows and a porthole and a dome skylight. It lights up. It's on timers. Several sets of lights come on at night. It's sitting on top of a two car garage. Took us about seven years to complete. Welcome aboard after you. Here we are at the interior of the spaceship. Off to my left is the lunar lounge. Anything I can get you? I'm going to let you in on a little secret. This is actually supposed to be a salt and pepper shaker. Also works for shot glasses though. We've got a bar, a mini fridge, freezer, sink, microwave, air fry toaster oven, also a smokeless grill. I built the bar from discarded pallets. The covering is actually the same covering that's on the floor. It's called coin design. I think it's used in garages a lot. Although I did pay people to do the major, the heavy lifting, there's some things that I was able to kind of take on myself and this is one of them. To me, it kind of has that mid 21st century look to it. When I was growing up, that was the future envisioned by the architects and the designers in the late fifties and early sixties. Over here, we have the dining area. We've got windows that look out across the creek and out into the woods. Got our friend, the B9 robot from Lost in Space. We've had parties here where we've had up to 50 people, which is a little cozy, but if somebody is going to come stay at the spaceship, we can sleep up to eight people fairly comfortably. Main sleeping area. This opens up into a queen size Murphy height of bed. We also have a couple of futon sofa sleepers and an inflatable queen size mattress and also four cots in the storage area. Voila, your sleeping pot. Over here we've got a mini split which keeps us cool in the summer and warm in the winter time. A little roll around R2D2. Got this at a antique shop over in Hawthorne district over in Portland for $50. I bought that just because I thought it was cool. There was no spaceship at the time when that was built. Over here, we have a ladder system which is also based off the show Lost in Space. They had something similar to this and they had a lower deck. Our lower deck is actually the two car garage down below the spaceship. The ladder system continues down to a landing. This is kind of the, uh, kind of the emergency exit. This is Frank. Frank failed to put the oxygen on his suit, turn it on when he opened up the pod bay doors and so all the air got sucked out. So, so we just leave him down there. Good old Frank. This is a storage room here. This is where you will find bedding and costumes for youngsters. We have a spacesuits, Star Wars costumes. You want to be a Wookie? This is the bathroom. Throughout the ship, you got to watch your head. Even if you're not very tall, the further you get towards the corners, the more of this kind of stuff happens. You can, uh, I don't know how many times I've hit my head in the spaceship, but yeah, we've got a little shower and it's tight, but that's how you'd expect it to be in a spaceship too. Over here we have the freezing tube bay, which is really handy if you're going to be staying more than five years. Suspended animation is where you can hang out in here. It's really comfortable. This is inspired by the show Lost in Space. They had freezing tubes. They were made out of glass. Glass was a little prohibitive cost-wise. So I used the tubes that the flooring came in and made them into my freezing tubes. It kind of looks like what was on the show. It's the poor man's version. And over here, this is my favorite part of the ship. It's the flight console, telemetry control. Oh, a little sticky there. Starboard thrusters and then a lineal acceleration. I'm not even looking. Forward thrusters, aft thrusters, self-destruct. I really don't know why that's there. It's just makes no sense. It's not safe. I want to push it, but I don't think I should. We'll have to get maintenance on that. And then here we have a basically EQ. Every flight console has that. We've got the Astrogator here that controls the Astrogator, which is right here. The Astrogator, it helps keep you on the right direction. You just point it and go forward and go up. That's all there is to it. Interstellar drive. I don't know why those are on. Trying to kill us. And then we have the artificial gravity. So hold on to something. Feel that? It's different, right? And then you've got your port thrusters. Turn all those on. This could use a force field control too. That's something I need to add to the list. This is the model of the Jupiter 2, what the spaceship is inspired by. We added these so that you can have more privacy when you're staying in a spaceship and you don't have to look out a window and go, Oh, there's a house out there. We landed right by a house. Plus it keeps the ship cooler in the summertime. It gets pretty warm with all this glass. They're not just rectangular windows. I don't know if it's a trapezoid or what you call it, but it just wouldn't look right to do like rectangular windows. It would look too conventional. So that was a big part of the construction. Over here's the audio visual section. This part here was also inspired by the show Lost in Space. They had a component like this on their ship where they did communications and could see beyond the ship through, through their video screen. Back here, I call it the captain's ready room. It's a little, a little cozy in here. A little desk, lots of memorabilia from past media visits. And this is kind of the behind the scenes, all the stereo equipment. So obviously there's not a lot of rooms per se. You've got a storage room and a bathroom and then a big living space. People love to come out here. They love to surprise significant others, spouses, parents, children, all kinds of people like to come out here and stay. People that like Star Wars, Star Trek, people who are into UFOs and aliens. It seems to appeal to a wide cross section of people. The rib lights. This is the latest addition to the spaceship. I call this one, the ship's on fire. This is an effect that's really fun at night. That's another really cool one. I love the blue, the electric blue. I think this is comet, comet rain or something like that. And then we have red alert. I don't know if you'd want to have that one on for too, too extended of a time. I'd like to see one, you know, I don't disbelieve, but I, you know, I'd like to see one with my own eyes. So no offense. Thanks for watching this week's episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Believe it or not, this is not the first spaceship home that we featured on this channel. So if you'd like to see more futuristic homes, check out the playlist we have linked in the description and I will see you soon with another unique home tour.