Category: Home Pod

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Home Pod Try One

Home Pod try one, as ours is now available for rent. It has been fully furnished and all utensils etc installed. It’s ready for a lovers weekend away, or friends ready for some exploration. If you want to see what it is like to live in a Tiny house now is your chance. Alternatively if you just fancy a break away from city madness get in touch and we will see if it’s free.

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Home Pod Try One

  • Kitchen
  • Straight down to the Atlantic
  • Kitchen
  • Hall
  • Shower Room
  • Double Bedroom
  • Mezzanine

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Home Pod Finished

Home Pod Finished just needs some furnishing and a few things on the walls to get it ready to be a “Home Pod”. Thought we would put up a few photos here of the building empty but ready for someone to give it the final touches. We will be doing just that over the next week, so wait for the next set of photos shortly.

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  • 25 Square Meter Home Pod
  • Kitchen
  • Wide angle view including Mezzanine
  • Reused old door and Fabric door to Double Bedroom
  • Plenty of storage under the bed
  • Shower

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Have an idea for a Tiny House

Here at Arkipod we like to build things from scratch, we designed our own builds and worked from there. The Arkipod and Home pod builds are drawn up and then produced buying the materials from local suppliers. We don’t sell buildings imported from elsewhere and add a margin. We also are quite happy to receive your idea for a Pod or Tiny house structure and give you an idea of a price to build your dream. It is easy to surf the web for hours looking at different things that people have done from all over the world.

Here is an example of something you could send us

The sketch above was drawn up a while back by a good friend of ours. If you want something like this or anything else sketch it up, give an idea of dimensions and we can work out the rest.

Live the Tiny House dream, you can park the above anywhere, as long as you have permission to be where you are, you’re sorted.

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Home Pod – Shower Room

Neil spent some time finalising the shower room. The room has been built on as a lean-to but never finished, so insulation and then waterproof gyproc were used to finish the inside. All the joints and screw heads were filled and finished. We then decided to sheet the three shower walls with a plastic product. Originally it was supposed to be a sort of outside shower so we maintained that idea a little by using a wooden base surrounded by stones. We will see over a few months how the wood stands up to the water from the shower.

A pleasing area to take a shower

Finished shower cubicle
Damp proof plasterboard
Other side

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Anne – The Creativity Cabin

My Cabin is a simple, grass-roofed, wooden building which has proved to be an extremely useful addition to our lives. It has been used an a office space, artist’s studio, temporary living space during a rebuild, storage loft, a pool/games room for loud kids to hang out in and as overflow accommodation for visitors.
The passive solar heating through the windows is often enough to keep a comfortable temperature. Even when it’s freezing outside the insulation is so good that a fire of driftwood or turf in the stove keeps the whole place toasty. I love the grass roof, not only for its beauty and eco-friendliness and all the wild flowers that bloom there in summer, but also because it absorbs sound and rainfall – even during a howling gale it’s peaceful inside.
It was a pleasure to be involved with Richie on the build. He came up with some great design ideas which maximised space and accessibility, gave great advice on choosing building materials and was willing to co-operate on building a bespoke space to fit the furniture and incorporate the second-hand windows and doors that I had located. He took great pride in his work and has built a solid structure that stood the test of time over a decade of storm-force coastal winds and severe weather. I can only imagine that these beautiful looking Arkipods will be similarly successful.

www.thecreativitycabin.com Anne

Ten years on
Wild Location
During the build 2009

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Home Pod – Kitchen

Once the walls were all clean and painted we started making the Kitchen part of the build. We made the kitchen fit the space we had and incorporated an old Belgian style of “Belfast Sink”.

The Belgian sink sets it off quite nicely

A Belgian sink
Frames
Partition
Worktops
Looking back to seating area

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Home Pod – Painting

The walls up and finished next stage in the revamp of the home pod was to start freshening the bare wooden walls with some paint. Over the years the wood had darkened by sunlight and where furniture had previously been placed the colours were all wrong. So a coat of paint was the solution.

First coat
Side walls awaiting the shelving and surrounds
Shelves
Finished

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Home Pod – Partitioning

Once the floor was done we had a sketched plan of how to divide the floor space and make a proper bedroom and turn the stairs around from their original position. This gave a more homely feel to the floor space and even though obviously the one space now becomes two the living area steel feels spacious due to all the natural light that floods in through the windows.

Stud wall up and temporarily the stairs in place
Stairs now bolted in to place and one side of the wall sheeted.
You can’t beat a sketched out plan, scale drawing….
Nice use of the space under the stairs with a bench that also provides storage.

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Home Pod the 12th year Revamp

So twelve years on from building the grass roofed visitors “shed” we decided to do a revamp and create a crafted comfortable chalet style accommodation for four people. Initially it was a complete empty of the building and then grinding down the concrete floor to get a polished concrete floor rather than the screed painted finish that we had for the last twelve years. The contractor who put the floor in all those years ago could have done a better job. So this was the place to start.

The floor twelve years of use all scratched and a few cracks

We hired a concrete grinder and spent a day running over and over the floor, cleaning up the dust each time. It was a hard day, but the 24 hour hire period was non negotiable so we worked hard.

This machine weighed a ton, however it was very easy to use, apart from all the cleaning between run overs

We are very happy with the finish, and went on to use a floor sealer “smartseal” product to give the concrete a deep sheen finish, it’s very nice.

The floor before sealing
Many coats of sealant gave a lovely finish, here the sealant is still drying.

So we now have a clean flat and sealed floor, very happy with it and a nice platform to work from.

Watch a short film made whilst we were sealing the floor

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Arkipod Home Pod

Arkipod started a long time ago, germinating in the mind. Previous builds on the West Coast of Ireland date back ten years plus with 25 square meter buildings including bedrooms, showers and toilets. The 25 m² rule applies a lot in Ireland and it is a good size for spare space. The building below was built over ten years ago, sleeps four at ease and has a shower and sink.

Arkipod bigger builds

This one has three separate downstairs rooms, one is the kitchen and living room and then a smaller bedroom and shower toilet room. With a mezzanine upstairs it housed three people for two years. It is now rented out on Air BnB.

the inside shot showing nice woodwork finish, but this is a consumer choice any finish is possible.

Preparation for the grass roof, Arkipod do many roof styles, Grass, Metal, wood and slates are all possible, it is down to personal choice and price.

A very small pod with a double bed downstairs and upstairs too, but nothing else.

 

A studio build cheaper materials to keep the price down.

Get in touch to talk about our 25m² options.

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