Samara Backyard ADU by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia: full review
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- In 2015, Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia wanted a backyard house, but couldn’t find anything he liked, so he decided to get into the business of creating and selling ADUs. Seven years later, he has launched Backyard, an off-grid steel prefab that comes in 5 colors and 2 sizes (a 430-square-foot studio and a 550-square-foot one-bedroom).
Gebbia “stepped aside” from Airbnb this past summer, but while still there, he started an innovation team to “think of the next big ideas.” “One of those ideas was based around us hearing from hosts that they wanted to be part of Airbnb, but they didn’t have space in their home, but they had room in their backyard,” he explained to us this week. “And while I’m hearing this feedback from hosts over the years, I myself, at one point, looked for a beautifully designed ADU for my own personal use, and I didn't see anything, and it planted a tiny seed in my mind."
That in-house innovation team is now its own company, Samara (co-run by Gebbia), and they are launching in California, the state at the forefront of ADU laws making it easier for homeowners to add backyard homes to their property. Gebbia says Samara wants to make things even easier by handling the entire process, from surveys and permits to installation. As more and more states pass laws facilitating ADUs, Gebbia argues, “I think it’s becoming someone’s right to have an ADU in the backyard.”
They have dropped their first Backyard unit on the Eames Ranch in Petaluma, California, where Gebbia and the famed designers' granddaughter Llisa Demetrios launched the Eames Institute for Infinite Curiosity. Gebbia first discovered the Eames’ work in design school and hopes his new venture will be “something that Charles and Ray would be proud of, something that found the form and function intersection.”
For Gebbia, that means a product that can someday achieve efficiencies of scale and make housing more affordable and less wasteful but also something that doesn’t “look like a UFO in your backyard.”
Eames Institute for Infinite Curiosity: www.eamesinstitute.org/
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Good video and explanation of what he’s designed and the inspo.
So much hate for this guy in the comments! I think the price isn’t that bad - includes delivery and slab plus install. Furniture too, and appliances not to mention great design. I’ve looked into prefab ADU and the price points are all $300-400 sqft and up.
Also all the hate for Airbnb! Far larger problem is communities limiting housing supply and density. You could as easily blame long term renters or homeowners for causing supply problems. Lot of misdirected anger, hope you all find some peace.
You cannot blame renters or homeowners because they're using the homes for the basic need of housing. The (keyword) majority of airbnb customers are using it for holidays and vacation e.g. not a basic necessity. Yes zoning restrictions are also to blame but there is no reason to boot-lick and shift blame away from this billionaire who has contributed in a major way to current world wide housing shortage and driving home prices up.
Him selling ADUs is like a heroin dealer getting into the narcan business. This is classic capitalism finding solutions to the problem it has contributed to or single-handedly created.
one can buy a 3 bedroom 1200 sf manufactured home for $145k add foundation and hookups to round out at $200k. Add a small lot for $100k and you have a lot more value for less money.
There IS a lot of hate, there’s only one political viewpoint that has so much hate even though they think they are superior. As far as adding more housing to these areas, it will not correct the problem. The denser the population, the more desirable it becomes to live there. more people, means more interesting things that people have created that you can partake in. that’s the reason the population is not evenly distributed across the land but instead congregate into cities.
@@Notrocketscience101 "has so much hate even though they think they're superior"
This is like the mother of all false equivalencies. What are you even trying to say? I would honestly have a hard time deciding whether you're a leftie or a righty except...
If it wasn't for you choosing a logical fallacy to base your position and prioritizing your rustled jimmies over conversational substance, I would have had no idea.
Or would I?
Left, right, you're all the same because you've all relegated your pursuit of common sense and maintenance of responsibility to the other guy because "thinking is hard".
No surprise that something so ridiculous as a 300,000 dollar glorified shipping container could be so polarizing.
I'm surrounded.
The unit he showed is almost $600 per square foot, and you provide the land. Way to democratize living!
No. Just no. You want to sell me on a tiny home, then justify Backyard ADU's $220k "firm estimate" on a 1300sqft house. That is NUTS.
I’m not going to personally attack this man and I really love the design of this house. I’ve been personally displaced by a landlord wanting an Airbnb more than a tenant and it’s crushing to watch your home turned into a product. The only thing I want to say is tiny houses and alternative living are exciting because they represent a source of hope for people who can’t afford a “normal” house. Not only that but a source of creativity, affordability, and the promise of a better life. It’s disheartening when tiny house videos are sponsored by Airbnb or the owner states they only built their tiny house as a source of income. I miss tiny houses being a bohemian, fringe movement cultivated by people living their best life in spite of the crushing challenges of this world.
I'll attack him. Dude loves hearing himself talk.
Kinda nice for him. Make money creating the problem, then cash in on "helping." Who doesn't love a helper?
I say he can pound sand.
Thanks to those airbnb's people can afford their houses. Hospitality is a job, and a lot of people prefer that then being someone's landlord.
I agree with you however you are a lot nicer than I am. My comment is no holds barred.
Not going to attack? Do we still get to eat him? I was promised class warfare...
Step 1: help create housing crisis
Step 2: sell little boxes to live in to people displaced by housing crisis
Step 3: $$$
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I design structures like this but at a higher level. As a warning I will say that the ionizer option would need to be removed from the filter or at least have an on/off option for the ionizer function because it does create ozone which is hazardous/deadly to small plants, pets (cats dogs ) and especially small birds kept as pets. Just FYI ⚠️
I have an air purifier that has an ionizer as an option. I know that ions were unhealthy for humans but I never considered how they would effect my plants and cats! thank you!
This is a solution to “affordable” housing, a tiny home that only costs $329,000? This is as much as a normal home in most places. I don’t know that this is a solution to the housing problem. Maybe banks not giving out predatory loans to people and companies not trying to turn peoples homes into businesses might help at least on 2 fronts. I like the videos that show unique, innovative, or creative houses that people built themselves on little money.
That is an insane price. Our 1900 sq.ft. brick and mortar old farmhouse on a large property here in a rural part of Denmark cost just DKK 350,000 (app. USD 49,000). I'm aware you can't build new for that kind of money but for $329K you could still build a brand new, large brick and mortar house here.
@@epilotdk sadly that is no longer the case here in Northern California. Short-term rentals have helped to drive up the cost of housing and destroy communities. Our children who were born and raised here must leave the state to buy a home. Workers must travel outside of the tourist areas (which is most of Sonoma County now) in which they live and in apartments with multiple roommates. I was born and raised in California and I'm so disgusted that our Board of Supervisors and representatives have sold us out to the highest bidder. : (
One could buy 2 Manufactured homes for the cost of one of these. Homes with a lot more room and actual space to raise a family.
@@mamalovesthebeach437 In cities of Europe either, rich individuals took over estate market and normal ppl are suffering
Exactly. That should cost no more than $150,000.
I see how people would want to congratulate him where it'd due, but pricing a modular home thats not even 1,000 sq ft at almost 300K??? How detached from reality are these people. The whole point of trying to downsize is because land and housing is being taken from the poor and given to the rich to rent/air bnb.
Even comparing to other tiny houses and modular home companies this is overpriced. seems like some bougie attempt of trying to make them seem less like an evil landlord. If you buy land and a home for the purpose of income you are not building a HOME you are building a product. I hate when these people act like they're so down to earth when all he did was take everyone else's ideas and packaged it into a marketing scheme.
Get the bag Kirsten but trying to act like this is an affordable, viable option is a joke. Repackaging old ideas and putting cute art on a website doesn't change anything.
*First time I can remember ever giving this channel a thumbs down on one of their videos.*
It's not like this the first time people featured on this Channel put their property on Airbnb.
@@VinegarPotato LOL, so true.
@@VinegarPotato I don't understand the relevance, but okay.
salesman vibes
Exactly.
Snake oil man vibes. He really loves himself.
It's called presentation
Should have asked him what it feels like to be responsible for so many homeless people.
As someone who loves to travel, but on a very limited budget, I am finding it more and more difficult to visit many places. I remember the days of pensiones, when you could find a charming, simple, friendly place to stay, usually run by a local family, for a small amount of money. Since the advent of Airbnb, so many places have been commodified to get as much money as possible from visitors, raising the financial expectations for income to universally higher amounts. The hunger for income has forced regular tenants out to make Airbnb’s and has made traveling more difficult for people who don’t have lots of money to spend on accommodations. It’s much harder now to find that charming gem of an affordable and beautiful place to stay that isn’t being exploited now for as much money as possible.
The popularity of Airbnb has destroyed housing in the community where I live, on the Isle of Skye. Young people can no longer buy a home and leave the island. I have watched a lot of the videos on this channel and this is the opposite of what I have enjoyed watching. The buildings and structures shown are interesting, but the people are what is most inspiring. This chap is very successful and has made a lot of money but at the expense of causing others pain and suffering.
18:27 “This had never been done before” John Henry Belter, ca. 1860 was producing plywood molded furniture. He had a patent dated 1858.
This guy is really high on his own supply.
Yeah, he didn't really create anything of significance, but he thinks he's being all artsy and creative.
Yeah, not enough windows. Not enough natural materials. I could have did ten times better space.
the price is wrong. For that kind of money you can build a 100m2 sturdy home.
Funny that one of the people most responsible for the housing crisis, by turning homes into investments, has now jumped on the trend of ADUs that spawned as a result. When we all have to live in tents because of him, he'll probably start selling those too
You can't pin it all on one man.
Thats exactly why when the overpriced market fails, they shouldn't get bailouts 💯
@@ChrisPage68 agreed but it can be pinned on one company. Coincidentally it is the company of this man...
@@ChrisPage68 i think it's safe to say you can pin one whole heck of a lot
@@ChrisPage68 when he admits he co-founded the company it's safe to say he is part of the problem lmao
In spite of Gebbia's hype, Airbnb was made possible by, and was even necessitated by the American Dream going down the toilet in the last few decades. When the American Dream was an actual reality, homeowners didn't need to supplement their income with "guests" just to make the mortgage payment. And that was when travellers, even families could afford to stay in a hotel instead of in some stranger's backyard shanty. Gebbia was smart to capitalize on the decline of the American Dream by inventing Airbnb but only a SUCKER would believe that Airbnb and these new backyard houses represent Progress in any way. They are just slick ways to distract the American Public from how shabby the American Lifestyle has become since manufacturing started moving abroad in the 1990's.
I love this channel. The building is nice but this episode made me think of the million dollar ‘selling LA’ shows. I wish there was a way for this level of knowledge and resources to give back to society. You don’t take your money with you so why use your ingenuity to solve a different type of shelter issue. Especially coming from a place where there is such urgent need with homelessness. This episode left me sad, first time I have not felt inspired in all the years of following this lovely channel
Air b&b is no longer what it was in the beginning. This guy is what is wrong with the world. Greedy. Ruining one community at a time by pricing out renters.
I lived in Petaluma myself. It was a wonderful community with all kinds and classes of people. Then Airb&b came in. Long term rentals were converted over to airb&bs and many people who rented could no longer afford to rent there. The town lost its character as it became more and more of a vacation destination. I finally left to move to a small town in New Mexico which is affordable and beautiful. Unfortunately airb&b “hosts” have discovered our town and are now recreating what happened to other destination towns who have lost their working class.
I can’t tell you how much I can’t stand this man and his company.
Agreed. Most of the small coastal communities in my country have been turned into ghost towns by Airbnb. Families can no longer afford to rent a home, so they leave. Businesses have shut down as there is nobody around outside of tourist season. Cities haven't fared much better, with half of every apartment complex now sub-let as Airb&b. Shelter should be a basic human right, not a commodity to further enrich the wealthy. The whole system is broken, and that company is exploiting the flaws.
If there was no airbnb there would be another in it's place. They are a right place right time company and have tech to thank for their profits.
let's start with baby boomers having on average 2.25 homes. AirB&B has brought property values up while the neighborhood stay maintained. That's the true start of the "greed." Vote in your city to regulate AirB&B's. Our small city has them.
Easy to blame Air BnB, but Petaluma enacted growth control in 1971 that limited new home developments to 500 units a year. When you artificially restrict growth to limit supply, lock in property taxes, and sue new construction under the guise of environmental law, you will have massive problems with sky rocketing prices. Air BnB is just the company that's benefiting from the artificial restriction on supply, because they're working within the conditions that were created by the government.
You can also tell how this artificial Californian scarcity permeated his new product offering. He wants $672 per square foot when the average cost for new construction is between $150-$200 per square foot. He literally wants $329,000 for what should be between $64,500 - 86,000 for a standalone structure. I'm sure that price would plummet with mass production as well, because that's the whole damn idea of factory produced housing.
@@computron5824 I don’t disagree with you.
I have watched every episode Kirsten uploaded. You are my hero! I am also a long time fan of the Eames-their design, ethos, and furniture made for Herman Miller Inc (as I have worked for the same company located in west Michigan) it is the only reason I watched until the end. I found the ADU unremarkable in terms of design and at 1/3 million price tag, excessive…this felt so commercial I was uninspired with this episode.
The highwater mark for this YT channel was the family in WI that restored their land to oak savanna. The low water mark is this guy, a corporate ghoul who's in decently large measure responsible for wrecking average Americans' home ownership dreams. And now he's got a three hundred thousand dollar "solution" to a problem he very much helped create. In the late 1940s/early1950s, my dad and his brothers lived in a chicken coop converted to bedrooms for his large family behind their rental house in Needles CA. Seventy years later, we have quarter million dollar glorified chicken coops so you can live in someone's backyard whilst the landlord gawks at you every day.
This man, like all Capitalists, is a success only because PT Barnum was correct when he said that "There's a SUCKER born every minute."
@@d-rot Do you remember the title on the restoration of the oak savanna video?
@@utubepunk czcams.com/video/sRPP4Ilpxso/video.html
@@d-rot 🐤 Hi! I grew up in a chicken coop, too, in 'Twin Peaks'! Daddy was a contractor and house mover, and in '53 a client gave it to him as payment for a job. He made a house with a BR at each end and kitchen/DR/bath between. When my baby sister got old enough, he built an even larger addition for a family room plus 3 BR & a bath for us three kids, The BR my middle sister and I shared opened up to become a living room with a fireplace and picture window looking into the woods. They lived there until it was taken by the freeway in the seventies. The spruce tree by the back door is still in the median.
He and his buddies COMPLETELY wrecked the long-term rental market, all over the world. Yet he, genuinely, pats himself on the back of his contribution to humanity, so smugly.
After what Airbnb did to housing around the world, I can't believe that this man has no introspection on that but he has a small cabin for the price of a house.
It's a poor attempt at addressing the very problem he created. It would almost be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Alright, besides the topic - just want to say that I'm proud of Kirsten for always producing really awesome videos and reaching the level that she has now.
It's cool but I think a tough sell outside of California for $329,000
I think its priced correctly, and will sell well to those who have been displaced by fire, especially. The selling point in real estate terms will necessarily be the beauty of the land surrounding it, which no one tends to do dick about
@@radgreenblue maybe in California, but not in the rest of the country. That's almost $600 per square foot or over three times the cost of a house in most of the US
Need to consider it is an "out the door" price. Includes foundation, permits, utilities, trucking, crane, etc
ya, Kirsten, this is nice. BUT ! For $ 329,000.00 plus all the set up costs to have it on your property. Maybe if you're a 1%er its acceptable. But not for everyday people. And acceptable price in California which is insane for realestate.
I know how to build and I know I could stick build this for less than a third of what this is and still make money. Including an even better solar system. Sure it wouldn’t be this nice, but darn close.
He has great admiration for the Eames work ethos and design process and wishes to emulate them. His project is nice, another builder in the tiny home space. However his business ethos is no match for how the Eames created during their lifetime. They were focused on human centred design with the aim of democratising design for the masses. On the other hand his ethos is marred by his business past and the impact it has had on homelessness across the world. That is the issue with his narrative in this video, it seems out-of-touch and self centred. I can’t believe he really cares.
I think the narrative that AirB&B causes homelessness is ridiculous scapegoating. It has exacerbated the a problem of affordable housing, but is only the latest symptom of problem 50 years in the making. Here's a ridiculous recontextualization in the opposite direction: the supply of small dwellings in aging urban neighborhoods, especially ones in interesting tourist destinations, must be left to deteriorate into an unhealthy enough state that only low income people will live there.
I don't like this guy or his $300k tiny houses.
I live in EU and i could build a 1500m2 house for so much money hahahaha and pretty easily because the bigger the house the cheaper it gets per m2
We can see a fraud from a mile away. So disappointed he’s on here.
And just like that the magic is gone. As soon as a lifestyle gets turned into business the end is nigh
So his little homes are for the rich. The small unit is 289k and the bigger one is 329k for that amount I’d be better off just buying a house or have someone build me a custom home
Air BNB has not been a friend to affordable housing.
Tech bro is probably promoting his new company for his whatever series funding. Wrecking whole sectors and calling it ¨disruption¨ is something we need to leave behind
Agreed. This guy just got the best free advertising.
Ironic that someone responsible for expediting housing prices is purchasing a 'tiny home' prefab. Not like he himself is likely to use it.
Air BnB is the problem.
Usually love your content, bummed by this collaboration.
@@tubularmonkeymaniac I think the comment section has ensured there is enough critique of what's going on here that we need not worry. I'd rather Kirsten present in a neutral way and let the discussion run as she has.
While I'm surely not interested in what this guy is selling, I can still take inspiration from some elements of the build.
She produced a documentary combining many of her videos critiquing people’s attempts at decreasing housing costs/improving way of life. During the actual individual videos, she did not critique anyone in person. Perhaps we can ask her to produce another documentary combining these newer videos and critiquing them.
@@tubularmonkeymaniac good point.
You would think with all his money he could afford a jacket that fits
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AirBnB European headquarters is in Dublin. AirBnB is finally banned from operating in Dublin after years of destroying the already tenuous rental market. AirBnB is a plague.
yeah, poor guy . . . . I'll echo, not my favorite of your posts . . . .
I live in a small town near a national park. I'm watching this video because I'm considering moving my family into a small adu because my local housing market has become so expensive that purchasing a normal house is completely out of reach for average people, largely due to AirBnB. AirBnB has made my local housing market toxic and dysfunctional and has deeply eroded and irrevocably changed the fabric of my community. But hey, this guy gets to add the Eames ranch to his collection and use it as a showcase to ramp AirBnB to the next level!
Seems to be an endless stream of tiny souless prefabs that are meant to revolutionise the market with their "affordability" that is in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I liked the kitchen too.. It was the only place in the house that showed “warmth”. I guess he didn’t like it. 21:14
Anyone else get American Psycho vibes from him? Like he is well groom and speaks well, buys you a drink, gets you drunk, next thing you are in his hotel room trying to escape. I kinda have a crush. lol
Why is his solar panels facing AWAY from the sun … they are in the shade? Erm? Also in the uk you have always been able to put a caravan in your back yard but most manufacturers make very shoddy units. This one looks well made
Play space underneath the cabinets and what not know it’s just more difficult space to clean it. I mean it’s just stuff where everything collects end of their beautiful home now.
Me and my family love Kristen’s shows❤️ …but this one in particular I just have a hard time coming to the realization that a billionaire that lives in a mega mansion here in Austin Texas and in many other places wants to put people in little houses … all these technocrats want people to live in pods, consuming their products. We have plenty of rural land and technology to live in harmony with nature with plenty of space to build a normal size house.
The argument is that we should eat the rich and this guy looks delicious.
No more tech bro turds, please.
"Starting prices for Samara’s ADU line, dubbed Backyard, will range from $299,000 for 430-square-foot studios to $339,000 for 550-square-foot one-bedroom units in the San Francisco Bay Area, with slightly lower prices for homes in Southern California, the company said." WOW!
The whole time he talks like he's pitching the latest "revolutionary" app to a venture capital panel.
Pretty sure the operative term here is "douchebag". LOVE this channel, you guys are amazing. I even like some of the design philosophy in this episode. Just can't stand this tech bro ding dong. And good grief - their tiny homes cost > $600/sf!?!
19:57 His favorite space looks like my grandkids daycare room.
Airbnb is the leading factor as to why nobody my age from my location can rent a home, let actually buy a home.
It’s not. In California, it’s Prop 13 and NYMBYism. Do your research.
Nicolas, I get your point, yet this problem of renters being thrown out of their rental homes because of escalating rent prices is happening in every state in the US and many other countries. Prop 13 is strictly CA. How do you account for Air B&B’s impact on states that have no Prop 13.
Airbnb, a very creative way to become financially more solvent and one of the reasons there is a housing crisis!
Though I appreciate the frustration expressed by many viewers and longtime fans of the channel, I’m going to be the outlier in contending that we shouldn’t expect, let alone suggest the content creator choose only stories that make us feel good. Both problems and solutions inform the spear’s head of Inspiration. Like many of you, I was taken aback by the gentleman’s seeming disconnect from reality; however, this episode strengthened my resolve to support access to affordable housing for those in my three meters of influence so-to-speak. Though many clichés are befitting of this matter, it comes down to the adage of “telling half the story is akin to telling a lie.” That said, great episode Kirsten, and thank you for the time, effort, and resources that go into bringing these stories to life; I look forward to subsequent encounters and adventures.
H/T.
Kristen has created great videos including this one. Most comments are not about Kristen's choice, it's the person she is interviewing that people take issue with. If you live in Sonoma County you have seen what this industry has done to our communities. I live on the coast and it's had drastic effects. It's important for people to know how destructive AirbNb and short-term rentals have been. The greed is forcing out our children who were born and raised here. It's a VERY sensitive topic in our county...
@@mamalovesthebeach437 That's not what the video is about, but anyway, it's impossible to reply to every comment. What I don't understand is that NONE of the people who benefited and kept benefiting from the extra income they got from using that service (which I've never used myself as a host and rarely as a service, but I don't resent it with such hate) showed up in the comments. We've done videos with people who made a living off it. But guess what, silence. I wonder how many of the people being so hard at Joe's generosity showing this to Kirsten have actually used (and benefited from themselves) Airbnb. You explain a very one-sided part of the story. This comment section on the video became a mob party that is out of point.
@@nicolasboullosa I can understand how it feels like a "lynching" but this is, after-all, an open public forum where you allow all comments. You may not be familiar with Sonoma County and the long-time residents here but if you had conversations with many of them you may understand why this is such a heated topic. Come to the Sonoma Coast during the summer and see the mayhem that happens here. Talk to your servers and ask them where they travel to and from in order to serve you. Speak to the young families who cannot afford to live in the county where they were born and raised because of the gentrification of their home towns. Yep, you're right, it is a one-sided view and the other side is the 2% of the population that short-term rentals benefit. 75% of homes in my town alone are short-term or part time. How do you build a community that serves and preserves our beautiful coastline with those numbers? Most of the homes here are part time, short term and second and third homes of the wealthy. People had a feeding frenzy out here when the economy tanked. I'm all for capitalism but overrun counties like ours must have limits. Unfortunately our BOS drags their feet and worries about their pension plans more than the people and land that they've been elected to serve. In addition, our Tourism bureau is also another money grab and our town is a big fat cash cow.
@@nicolasboullosa it also may help you to better understand the passion this interview has stirred when you read about the stated goal of ADU's... "What are the benefits of ADUs?
ADUs are an affordable type of home to construct in California because they do not require paying for land, major new infrastructure, structured parking, or elevators.
ADUs can provide a source of income for homeowners.
ADUs are built with cost-effective wood frame construction, which is significantly less costly than homes in new multifamily infill buildings.
ADUs allow extended families to be near one another while maintaining privacy.
ADUs can provide as much living space as many newly-built apartments and condominiums, and they’re suited well for couples, small families, friends, young people, and seniors.
ADUs give homeowners the flexibility to share independent living areas with family members and others, allowing seniors to age in place as they require more care."
The gentleman interviewed is focused on and promotes the income for homeowner's through his AirbNb service. While that is one of the benefits it was never intended to be the focus of an entire industry that destroys communities and families. The original intention was affordable long-term housing for community members and extended families.
This is crazy. He is selling a 15 x 37 single wide mobile home for $300,000. You can go to a mobile home lot and get a 18 x 80 for $80,000. to $100,000.
Did anybody notice that the sun is not hitting his solar panels on his ADU? By the way, $300k isn’t cheap except in Wacko California
The comments are the only good part of this video.
In a strange way, I agree 😊!
If affordable, I think this is a great design. Larger windows would be nicer, but will definitely more cost ineffective....
Not affordable & it's only a 1 bedroom. Enjoy trying to clean under the cabinets in the kitchen since it's completely open.
WoW! Thank you for showing this, and thank you to Joe Gebbia, had no idea this Eames farmhouse/factory/archive existed!
Love this channel and all of the content. This makes me sad because I realize I will never be able to have a small home of my own, in my home state of California or my birth state of Illinois. Destined to pay rent for my remaining life. Still, I enjoy watching from the sidelines and seeing all the creativity. Grateful for all the thoughtful content.
It is sad. I was able to aquire my home because the first one cost $30000 and we spent 7 years remodeling. Then bought a 3 acre parcel of land and built a new home to raise our 7 kids. Was fortunate enough to purchase another home pay for it, sell the larger one and put money away to retire. However the cost of living has gone up so much that at 75 I still work in the construction field full time. What I was able to do is no longer possible. What I paid $30k for is now mid to high $300s. The home I built on my 3 acres cost a total of $120k and now sells for high $800ks. The American Dream has succumbed to greed and inflation.
Condos, apartments and maybe town houses are still relatively *affordable.
Single family homes are expensive...
However, if you are living, way way way.... Way way way out there there are also some options...
I'll bet this is deceptively expensive. But very cool. Thanks Kirsten and Hubby
Thinking same thing
@@jwulf oh come on, reality please
@@jwulf 300k wtf? hahaha you people have gone mad with the house pricing.
@@faustinpippin9208 yeah that price point is absurd. ADU's do no have to be this expensive.
@@jwulf I am relieved..I didn't think that would come from a smart person like you😉
Please define ADU in the description. -A scientist who tends to speak in jargon and actually enjoys acronyms.
Accessory Dwelling Unit, aka Guest House, aka Mother-in-Law House
Yup, I've been wondering what the heck an ADU is too. Sound like something a doctor would stick in you during an emergency procedure.
I had to Google it..
@@thefrub You forgot - Air BnB, that's what this was a commercial for.
I was thinking, 'Autonomous Detached Unit'.
What I like about small living is its affordability and financial freedom, But most of all my own creativity to make it work for me. This does not tick any boxes. I have a tingling feeling that ADU's will be heavily regulated "not to look like a UFO" fairly soon....
Kind of crazy to have all of those priceless Eames artifacts in the heart of fire country.
He’s probably got a team of water people on call during fire season.
Airbnb is the biggest threat to viable communities! Hope that municipalities in several countries will ban or limit the possibility of converting homes to Airbnb or building...that is, making money from renting!
I want a UFO in my garden...but first I need a garden. 😉
Airbnb: ruining neighborhoods across the world.
That house is ugly af and I concur with the comrades, we need housing for all solutions not 1/3rd million profit machines from tech bros.
I find it totally ironic that the founder of Airbnb is talking about affordability! In many places, Airbnb is responsible for removing housing from the rental market because it's more lucrative for landowners to rent spaces via Airbnb than it is to rent to a long term tenant. Airbnb has directly contributed to the affordable housing crisis, and this guy is acting like he's helping to make home ownership "affordable". I'm so angry because of the arrogance of this man that I cannot force myself to watch the full video. I'm sorry Kirsten, I gave this one a thumbs down because it upset me so much.
It's ironic and nauseating...
Airbnbs have completely ruined many cities around the world, housing is completely unaffordable, all new units are bought by airbnb investors. I hope karma hits him soon.
Huh?
Bros mad at the world
Said every sad sack who resents just about everything
Remember that AirBnb was invented for people to rent out spare beds in their house to make a little extra cash. Granted it got really out of hand since then and people buying houses to put on AirBnb is questionable, but it's important to separate the founder from the people who abuse the platform for their own gain.
I bought the two houses next door to me that were AirBnbs and now they are long term rentals. I haven't raised the rent on my tenants in eight years. Maybe do that.
AIRBNBISM HAS FESTER LIKE A SORE--
The WOW! feeling is all over this video. Congrats! Amazing.
Kirsten! I was at the Eames Ranch yesterday! We were there at the same time but I was working an artifacts photo shoot. Man! Ha! I can't believe I completely missed you! My colleague saw you in the living room (he just mentioned). Yours is my favorite channel on YoutTube! ...Man am I bummed I missed you! I would have invited you to my sculpture studio in a split second! Ha ha ha ha - - Small world!!!
the color and design of this house is so cool i loved
Would love to see you visit Cajun Corral farm in LA. I love when you do these type of docu vids! Ty for all the wonderful content !
this is the most pretentious house viewing I've ever seen on this channel , ps. who the heck wants to clean under the cabinets
Recommend Joe watch 'Living Big in a Tiny House' latest CZcams upload for an example of a tiny house with 'soul'.👌
it's important to innovate the way we build and live. good to see some steps towards smaller and smarter. lower cost is not here yet, but should happen in time. i'd expect that something like this could be under $100,000 in a not far future.
Is that a bottle trap drain at 11:21 instead of a p-trap? If so, that's a bad decision -- design over functionality / longevity -- and illegal in many locales without a special exemption. (This was discussed on the This Old House channel 1-2 months ago.)
What a likable guy.
This guy fancies himself fancy.
I bet he kisses himself in the mirrors and high 5s his left hand.
When you are rich every idea you have is revolutionary, didn't you know?
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This is a 24:14 long ad.
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Just bolt a few containers together, they will become stupid cheap.
And rest assured they will rust in the coastal air...
That gap under the kitchen counters is a cleaning and pest nightmare. But induction cooktop and hardwood or heated tile flooring are a must.
The thing is, that’s a house. Not an “additional” anything. That’s the size of a proper starter home. So what really needs to happen, is that we need to have smaller plots of land and these HOMES available for young families just starting out, single people buying their first property, and seniors down sizing from bigger homes, into something more manageable in their latter years. But THAT is what we need to enable. Not just second buildings for people… who already have buildings.
And we need to change zoning restrictions so that these smaller homes, can be interspersed among small businesses, and community farm plots, into WALKABLE neighborhoods.
$350K for a tiny one bedroom. Crazy! If you buy land it will cost $500-600K.
Kirsten D
Congrats excellent documentaries, all of them!
Beautiful places
Beautiful homes
Very special to see this place from the Eamses!
I want to eventually design a small home of my own and love this channel since I get to see what others have done.
There were some interesting comments about what makes a space big, and I like some of the things about this design. Everyone has slightly different goals when designing, so I would change things about this design.
I want a home design that uses what we have learned about health and sleep (sleep hygiene) in the bedroom design. For that, it means getting all the electronics out of the bedroom. My small home would split the office space into a different room and turn the bedroom into a sleeping nook, but tie it more to the bathroom with a changing room as the buffer space between.
Also, the bathroom needs to separate the sink where you brush your teeth from the toilet. Make the toilet area into a more European-style WC (water closet)
I do like his kitchen design, however.
For me, though the house mentioned 4 years designed by the former Apple architect still stands out. I liked that design a lot.
Thanks for all the videos you do.
Your design ideas are similar to mine re bedroom, closet/changing rm, bathroom. But one thing all kitchens need is a pantry, whether free standing or built in. 😁
i really like this cinematographic and audio style too . the Dirksen's are iconic at this point . Adding them fully in more shots is great to see and hear 🔥
This was nostalgic for me! My Dad knew the Eames, through a business connection, and I actually sit in one of their iconic chairs for dinner each night! Very comfortable! Thanks for your great content always.
This is an important video and I thank you for presenting it. An enormous amount of creative thought and planning = ponderous planning = has gone into what you have presented. Thank you
Very brave of you considering the headwind in the comments LOL.
Came here for the comments 🍿🥴
Welcome.
"do you airbnb it?"
"oh god no"
OK, that’s funny.
… and actually, another Airbnb cofounder is renting one room at his home while staying there, look for it, it’s recent, I believe. But the comment is funny.
Hahahahaha
Az long as you're in the area, how about doing a video on the Djerassi Ranch (artists in residence dwellings)?
Wow 👍👍
This guy gives me the creeps
P.S. don’t push California prices & values on the rest of us.
Please stop pushing these ridiculous prices on Californians!!🤬
I love these episodes that provide solutions that are accessible in the suburban landscape most of us inhabit. As much as love the beautiful restorations and unique cottages tucked in away in the wilderness, if all of us adopted that lifestyle, there would be no wilderness. I think Joe acknowledged the price point didn't scale to the vision. Increasing urban density in sustainable manner in the massive sprawl of america is a big issue, if every new neighbourhood was carbon neutral, it won't help. Houses last 50 to 100 years, it is the repurposing of existing neighbourhoods that will have the most impact. Yes a straw bail or mud adobe ADU would probably be a more carbon neutral solution, but prefab solutions is more understandable and scalable. Will broad adoption of backyard ADUs have negative effects in some neighbourhoods? Of course, in the same way that AirB&B has had negative effect in some places. It is the responsibility of fans of this channel, those of us who care about intentional living, to identify those places where a new form of land use is abusing certain communities and to use our democratic voice to influence policy.
Insightful, thanks. This thread missed a comment like yours since it was posted. It feels refreshingly balanced and sensitive to the nuances of reality.
Yea if you have MONEY it is great.
What an amazing place; must have felt like sacred ground. One of your best videos, Kirsten!
The Humvee of the ADU world. Wretch.
Very inspiring! Thanks, Kirsten!!