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John Olson
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2006
After a 15 year career in government related work, I quit my job in 2021 to pursue more meaningful work. I am now my own boss and call the shots on what comes next in my life. This channel highlights my journey to create that new life for myself, more specifically, through passive income investments, owner-builds, diy, and everything else financial independence related.
It cost me xxx,xxx to build a modern cabin from scratch. Complete cost and construction breakdown.
This video dives into each of the steps I took to build a unique modern cabin with a breakdown of costs, including materials and labor. I acted as my own general contractor over the build, so I planned, permitted, and managed all aspected of construction to bring this dream to reality. Zenplicity is a modern mountain cabin that is nothing like a traditional prefab. Constructed of ICF, this build is designed to be energy efficient, fire resistant, and virtually maintenance free.
Want to learn more about this amazing project? Please follow us on instagram @zenplicitycabin
Booking information: www.zenplicitycabin.com or www.airbnb.com/rooms/727442744365552938?preview_for_ml=true&source_impression_id=p3_1694296876_TRzowBogQi46PB48
Inquiries
johnwolson79@gmail.com
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Want to learn more about this amazing project? Please follow us on instagram @zenplicitycabin
Booking information: www.zenplicitycabin.com or www.airbnb.com/rooms/727442744365552938?preview_for_ml=true&source_impression_id=p3_1694296876_TRzowBogQi46PB48
Inquiries
johnwolson79@gmail.com
#construction #totalcost #ICF #ownerbuild #vacationrental #entrepreneur #cabin #diy #airbnb #ownerbuild #airbnbtour #costbreakdown
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(Updated)1 year construction, start to finish, of a custom, modern mountain cabin.
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*This video is a reedited version of the original video, additional content has been added for clarity This video documents the one-year journey to complete the construction of a modern mountain cabin. As an owner-build, the goal was to create something high-end, unique, maintenance free, and modern, using only the best materials. To discover more of what's unique about the cabin see more conte...
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This video is the final tour of a modern cabin that I completed acting as my own general contractor. The cabin is a high grade and high performance build, offering high energy savings and little maintenance. The materials and products used include: ICF, concrete, 26 gauge metal wall and roofing, gravel (for backfill), composite trex decking, ducted mini split, cable rails, low e energy efficien...
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This video documents the one-year journey to complete the construction of a modern mountain cabin. As an owner-build, the goal was to create something high-end, unique, maintenance free, and modern, using only the best materials. To discover more of what's unique about the cabin you can find us on Instagram: @zenplicitycabin Also, watch highlight video here: th-cam.com/video/uZCg-T83hPc/w-d-xo....
Zenplicity Cabin
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Experience the thrill of “Zenplicity”, a modern mountain cabin, nothing like your traditional pre-fab. If you want the experience of a unique listing, with plenty of privacy and a view, look no further. Find us on IG at @zenplicitycabin for booking updates (cancellations and new openings), video walkthroughs, appliance how-tos, and favorite local spots.
Dude! Bumble bee yellow...tacky. I was expecting a more natural stain. Loving the rest thpugh. Great work.
I absolutely love the crisp modern design. The use of modern building materials. The contractors are real pros. You made a great informative video. I’m very curious about what the project costs. Thank for sharing and enjoy.
Im just curious, if the building is just 1 story high, why did you need such a large foundation? Wouldnt concrete poles be enough? Will the building wash away otherwise when there is a rainstorm?
Man, this is a fundament! Great job!😃
I know you got a Facebook page today. I learned that you guys don’t monitor your Facebook. I had a serious question and SOS for you guys to help me out about flooring, but it’s nice to know that I watch all your videos. I have you on my Facebook and you guys don’t respond to or you don’t monitor Facebook that that’s what I was told, thanks a lot
And the purchase of the land plus the construction of this house without shutters that is very bad, how many dollars in total ? All that is very very very bad... 🫥😑😨😮💨😮💨😮💨☹️☹️☹️😖😖😖😩😩😩
The house... lake certains things... and I don't like at all the forest in opposite the front of the house, and in more, they don't have internet with fiber, I don't like that at all... and in fact, when I wake up in the morning, I am in total darkness, I have special shutters that din't let any light inside when they are down, so, this house, no, it's bad...
it’s their house not yours 😂
did this build survive the flooding?
any house survive against one big flooding, but this house is in the mountain, so, no problems, all good, -->you have see the construction, xtremely solid, so, no problems.
i liked the fact that you tried your best to use new materials also the building looks great
I watched the entire video in anticipation of seeing the finished interior, so was very sad not to see that! :(
I love the yellow entrance and the cross reed glass in the door and side panes. Polished concrete is a great idea. It will be easy to clean up dusty or muddy footprints. I like that you didn't go for generic "Shaker" cabinetry for the kitchen, but matte black shows every mark and wouldn't have been my choice. Sames goes for stainless steel. You built your dream, but I feel that black and white is too harsh for the wooded environment.
What a disappointment you didn’t show the finished interior
Awesome build! I'm impressed mainly because is owner built! Amazing 👏
You should have buried those cables in conduit for protection and future upgrades.
Cuantos arboles plantaste despues de talar la mitad del bosque????
Cool, only one comment, I would cover the cables and other installations coming out of the ground so that when pouring slab no accidental concrete slips. Just a plastic bag can save you a lot of headaches. Cheers.
There's going to be a lot of erosion on that north side no overhang and siding going to the ground.
So explain how you connected the slab to the wall and you also said that you set the upper rear wall on top of the rear stem wall and made it sound as it was connected directly to that
Wonderful video,I’m saving it,that was great,thankyou 🇺🇸🕊💫
Man, such wasted opportunity on the budget for gravel vs. digging a little deeper & getting same foundational structure while gaining more space. It would cost just a bit more but much more functional. Ahhh hate to see it
Beautiful work...but why would you cover ICF walls with sheathing?
The only thing I don't like is cutting down trees and I imagine that for every one that was cut down, more were planted?
Builder from Northern Europe. I assume it's the US. You still have very low standards there, I see. The utility room looks like vomit. Distribute air and heat in the house through pipes🤢. Never heard of underfloor heating. Let's talk about low costs and the free heat of solar energy in the building has an uninsulated floor. As a class A requirement, we need to install 300mm EPS 100 in three layers. Floor heating and Geothermal heating are the everyday standard. The winter energy consumption of a 150m2 house is 600kwh and 120 euros in February -20c. . A light controlled by Alexa is like a dick show, haven't you heard of motion sensors and location sensors? Strong performance, but there is room for improvement, grade 3
Floor insulation, floor heating, sewer pipe protections inside the floor concrete
Get a blue roof...if you know you know
Cost please?
As an amateur when it comes to building like this I am curious as to why the foundation is filled up with gravel. Is it to add mass so the foundation sitts more stable on the ground? My first thought was that it would be nice to use that space as a basement/storrage. Really nice build and a great video overall that really inspire me for my future plans to build a cabin of my own here in Sweden.
15k per acre of goat pasture, Than a continual fail from there.
Water heater vents above the hot tub? No bueno.
Great cabin, good work, layout Could be better and I know this nothing to do with the construction, but the car noise ruins the great view😢,
You cought a ghost at 44:54 in the door where the plastic was blowing around it was a face looking at you I'm not playing please look back at it
I’m not understanding the backfill. If not just a waste of space and material, isn’t that a lot of “fluid” weight up against the walls? Rock or water, gravity still has it pushing down and outward. Seems like a lot of unnecessary stress on the outer wall rebar. Couldn’t they just have created a concrete floor to tie the walls together? Or hell for the money they spent on rock couldn’t they have created the floor joists with steel and thus tied all the walls together without the weight pushing outward? Seems like plumbing and electrical would have been a lot easier also with the crawl space.
Awesome video and thank you for sharing.
Dude, that yellow is atrocious, other than that, I like it.
Hi there, I'm also building on a 30⁰ slope and looking at options for a septic system. I was just wondering what kind of septic system you used for this build? Thanks,
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What a waste of expensive materials ! Any rain knocking on your front door ?!! What's the reason of filling the entire foundation with gravel when it's surrounded by concrete? You could leave at least half of the area for a basement and a smaller terace. With 11 bunker style pillars, you could extend another 3 feet out. The design of the house reminded me the first house my brother made. Bro, your house front is in the back? !!!
Cool modern home structure! Cabin? "Small structure with simple construction" This is not.
Very nice. Thanks for sharing. The foundation is massively strong for this location. For what you spent to make a flat slab, I think you could have had a crawl space or a partial basement for storage and utilities. The bedrock is good insurance that the slope will not move under your house.
Looks like the Missouri Ozarks.
why so much gravel???
Bulding ICF house without showing proces of build,awesome.
You did all that for less than $400k? You are a legend!
The yellow is so out of place....yuk! Hard to believe after all that hard work...please change it to a warm cedar brown.
Very nice Cabin looks great and it fits in the bush ❤️🙏👍🤕
Seems like a ton of work for the foundation compared to just putting a few concrete pillars, is it because of heavy rainfall and the ground shifting?
Wow ! If you did this in So. California you coud tripple the materials and construction, and just forget about the land ! So here I am in a 70's era mobile home with 0 insulation, and I still have to pay lot fees ... But I could sell the old thing for more than you paid for that beauty ! Location my friend ...
Extremely cool result. Very impressive design and materials ! How I love minimalism ... 🌠
Nice connex box. Where in California are you from?
Did you not not blind the gravel before laying the DPM? I have never seen windows fitted with the glass already in either