DIY Off Grid Cabin Build - Episode 06

i've had a few people ask me what the layout's going to be for the cabin it's only in 8 by 16 so a lot of people are curious so that's what this week's video is going to be about so let's get started all right so here we've got the layout uh it's 16 feet wide and eight feet deep um so uh let's get started laying things out all right so the first thing that we'll do is lay out the windows and the door um if you look at the front i've got a 36 inch wide window and my door is 36 inches wide as well so i wanted to kind of place them in equally distance from each other and from the edges so that's how i've got that laid out and then the two windows in the back that's where the kitchen area is going to be so i wanted those to be over the kitchen and counter area so that's why i've got them placed there okay so on the right this is where the bathroom area is going to be and currently i've got it set up for a 32 inch shower and a 32 inch bathroom area with a sliding barn door that will slide down and kind of tuck away behind the front door when it's open now that could change um it depends on what kind of shower pan that i can find um i'm looking at some 36 by 36 but you know i might end up getting a 32 by 32. we'll just have to see the shower will be in the back right corner and i'll have a towel rack right next to the shower and i haven't decided if it's going to be a towel rack or if i'm going to place some hooks there we'll we'll see when i get to that point but right now i'm planning on a towel rack opposite the shower will be the composting toilet and i'll have a urine diverter in the composting toilet make that a lot easier eliminate any odors that are caused by the urine and the compost mixing and then i'll have a compartment just to the left of of the composting toilet where i'll keep all of the sawdust or mulch or whatever i end up using and i plan on having a toilet paper roll right there on the left wall in front of the sawduster mulch above the bathroom area i plan on having a loft so i'll drop the ceiling uh down to about seven feet and that'll give me a sloping storage area that's one foot high on one side up to two feet high on the other so not a lot of storage but uh when your cabin's this small you'll take any storage you can get okay so here's the kitchen area and i've got the kitchen counter centered on the two windows there and it's going to be a little over two feet deep and looks like it's going to be about six feet wide i'm going to have a double sink that is situated under the right window and then all of the countertop to the left of the sink will be prep area okay under the countertop on the left of the sink i'm going to place a mini refrigerator and i'll probably have cabinets across under that work area but we'll see for now i'm just going to have a mini fridge down there okay i've been moving things around trying to figure out what the best layout is for having a dining area and i settled on for now anyway using the prep area having a double as a dining area as well so i just thrown up a couple of stools there in front of that okay over on the left this is going to be the sleeping area and i'm just going to put a platform across that entire eight foot wall there and it's wide enough to fit a full mattress and i think a full is right around 55 or 56 inches wide and 75 inches long and since this is 8 feet that's going to leave me a little bit of area up top that i'm going to use for something else okay so here is a better uh description of what that's going to look like so i've got the full bed laid out there and then you've got this platform shelf um behind it so i'm going to have that go all the way up that wall so you'll have a couple of shelves behind the bed to place books phones chargers knickknacks you know whatever you would uh use that area for and the bed platform is going to be right around two feet off the ground or off the floor and so there's going to be a lot of room underneath for storage so i'm going to use that for under bed storage and at the same time there's going to be a lot of room above the bed that'll be unused so i'm going to put a loft up there and i'm still trying to decide if i want to use that for storage or for another sleeping area and the area between the door and the sleeping area i'm going to have a wood stove and i don't know if i'm going to have one of those small stoves that mounts to the wall or if i'm going to have one that's floor standing i haven't figured any of that out yet but that's the general placement and it gives me about three feet where i can have uh any some kind of metal or concrete backer board to protect the wall from heat okay so i've decided to remove one of the windows over the kitchen area and i'm going to use that area to have shelves for play plates and pots pans cups that kind of thing so that'll be above the dining area and the prep area all right so let's move the cabin up into the upper left area to make room for a future wrap-around deck so the deck's gonna be four feet off the front of the house and then five feet off of the side and uh i'm not going to do this initially this is something that i'll work on in the future but this will just kind of give you an idea of what that's going to look like it'll make the entire area 21 feet wide and 12 feet deep okay so i wanted to show you a side profile of the sleeping area and this is uh how much space would be uh available for the loft in this one i would have the ceiling drop down to six feet high because i wouldn't be standing up in that area so six feet is plenty um so i could either use it for storage or i can use that as another sleeping area this one would have three feet on one end and two feet on the other end so there's plenty of room to have somebody sleep up there and this also gives you an idea of what those shelves will look like behind the beds and this will give you an idea of the bathroom area where you've got the shower on the left the toilet on the right and then you've got a couple of feet of space in between that you can use as a dressing area right now i just have a towel rack there but i'll probably have a mirror in that area as well so that should give you an idea of what i'm thinking about in terms of layout for the cabin and this is all in flux i i made probably half a dozen changes just while i was drawing this out so no guarantee that this is how it's going to end up but right now this is the plan and this is how i'm going to go forward so that's going to do it for this week so i'll talk to you guys later you