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[Music] hey everyone my name is Matthew and for the last five years I've been living full
time in this converted Sprinter van I met Jenna about four years ago and have been filming
for tiny house giant Journey as the main camera operator but it's time for me to turn the
camera around and show you what I've been living in for the past month so we are out
here in jacumba Hot Springs at the stay Nomadic Desert glamping Resort they have hosted us
for the past month and we've been living in this incredible tiny home now we is my partner
Tega and I and our four fur babies we've got two cats and two dogs so our family of six
can get kind of tight in our two vehicles but what we've decided to do every so often
in our nomadic lifestyle is to slow down and find a place to stay for a month every six
months and so we got an opportunity to try out one of these beautiful homes and we've
really enjoyed slowing down and having a nice place to relax recharge and disconnect to
reconnect [Music]
all right so welcome to the outside of the incredible box these are really cool because
they are affordable and so a lot lot of us are looking for affordable homes I know I'm
looking for something to put on a property that I just purchased and so this is a great
option that I'm super excited about and I wanted to give it a try so when I met Randy
in Tennessee last month say hello to the world Randy hello world he said hey give this house
a try see what it's like kick the tires and let's see if you really like it and so I can
tell you after being in a month I love this house I've really enjoyed it it is a 20 foot
by eight foot long trailer it doesn't need any special permitting on the road my buddy
pulled it for me it's about 5 300 pounds and that meant that it easily drove behind his
four window bus no problems at all it has that nice slant on the roof as you can see
so it pushes the wind down when you're driving keeps it nice and stable another cool feature
of the house is that it's made with recycled metal panels you'll notice some panels kind
of screwed in in conjunction and that is how it becomes affordable because he's using recycled
panels that are used to be going in a junkyard and he's able to repurpose them and save a
ton of money with this assembly line Construction process that they have in Newport Tennessee
they pump three of these out of the factory per day and it's incredible to see what they're
doing this model here is the 25 000 dollar model it's the 20 foot model and it's got
a design that he calls DIY design it yourself so he builds the frame the plumbing comes
all in the electrical everything is ready for you to then design it so it's got some
nice Greenery on the outside it's a paint job but you could do wood siding on the side
you could do a lot of different options to really drum it up and make it look nice and
so I like how he gives you the frame so that you're warm you're dry you're taken care of
you've got what you need to get started and then you can kind of build it out yourself
I loved building a little front patio out here I took the astro turf that we've got
and took some of the furniture that they gave us and we do yoga out here we loved hanging
out with the animals it was really nice to be able to have a place to come enjoy your
coffee in the morning watch sunrise over Temple Peak and enjoy this beautiful area that we're
in [Music] I want to take you around to the front real quick this house has the off-grid
package on it so there's gutters around the whole house and the water is collected and
then run into this hundred gallon tank so you have the ability to be completely off-grid
between the solar on the roof the 800 amp hours of battery inside and the water catchment
system you're able to be completely off grade which I really love being a full-time off-grider
it's really cool to see a tiny house with the same features we'll slide around the back
side and this is where all the systems come in so it's just like a standard tiny house
you're going to have your black water tank gray water tanks coming out the bottom here
we hooked into the system with water and power from the grid so it'll take a 30 amp plug
just like any other standard home and I like that a lot it made it nice and easy have a
nice unlimited hot showers was awesome [Music] all right so let's check out the inside of
the house foreign
so welcome to the inside it's very spacious actually coming from a van you know anything's
going to be large but I love how much space is in this place and it feels like it's plenty
of room for what I would want so taga and I and our four animals lived here so a family
of six very comfortable in this space and we really enjoyed all of the the lounging
space so if you come with me we'll go into the master bedroom well so we've got a loft
up top and then they had two twin beds one on top and one on the bottom what we did was
we took them both and combined them so we've got this nice big bed down here for all of
us to hang out this was like the central Focus point for us this is where we would come and
Lounge a couple of our friends would sit down on these chairs and we could hang out in this
space here so we've got three Windows all around us we're surrounded by light which
was really nice the insulation was another big thing that I thought was really uh respectable
so these panels if you want to take a look here they're metal panels so these are all
individual metal panels they squish them in between two inches of spray foam closed cell
insulation and that is what creates almost like a metal sit panel and having that structure
gives you all the rigidity you need there's no wood studs Behind These Walls it's just
those metal panels and it's solid as a rock the only downside I would say is the cell
signal is a little tough getting a cell phone signal was normally going outside or putting
it next to the window but I guess that's what you get with a metal container so the other
cool features that I loved is they kind of designed this a little bit for us the ladder
here is really cool I like the metal ladder and they put it in with wood to be able to
support it so they screwed it in in multiple places into the metal and that gives it the
ability to then screw onto the wood made it nice and easy to get up there for storage
we used that a ton for our extra stuff and then this was just kind of a little no look
area with the TV a lot of work was done here at the desk [Music] so the word I think of
for this house is cozy and if you come with me you'll see one of our children my daughter
Stella is enjoying the bed as she typically does she loves people but she also loves to
snuggle in with her on the couch so it's always nice having space where our animals feel comfortable
as well and our cats don't always feel the most comfortable in our van so having this
space was really comfortable a nice a nice change of pace so let's keep moving we're
going to keep going over here to the kitchen area it's definitely not a large kitchen space
but they do a good job of making the most out of the space so they've got this flip
up table here which is really comfortable for adding extra space and also can put a
chair there to eat at which is nice so the Butcher Block I really liked the color is
nice and bright and vibrant which really makes for that cozy homey feel we had a a few other
things that we like to use being on the road from my Nomads no power hungry devices aren't
always your friends so having a house with hookups was a nice ability to get a little
power hungry and have some conveniences that we're not used to having on the road [Music]
to my left we have our tankless water heater so it runs off of a propane system makes it
super simple hot water unlimited water not used to having that in my van I have no shower
and so having unlimited hot water has been a nice nice convenience below that we've got
a little mini closet an air fryer I love having this air fryer it's probably my favorite thing
that we got while we were here and then a standard fridge pretty similar to what I use
in the van so that was really no different and then if you keep coming with me we'll
go into the bathroom area so full size shower this was something I really enjoyed it's a
30 inch shower base and I was able to get in here comfortably shower no light cramming
in like RVS where you traditionally can't really get around I was able to get my towel
and actually dry off in the shower that was a nice thing I'm glad that they didn't go
small or tiny with the shower just because it's a tiny house doesn't mean that you need
to be crammed in and everything needs to be small on the other side there's a composting
toilet you know I know a lot of people that have them and enjoy them I think if you have
the ability to create compost and are going to be staying put for a long time it's definitely
worth it the last feature over here is the power system so come on over here and check
out the off-grid power system this is a inverter charger a 3000 watt inverter so it's taking
uh 12 volt power from the lithium batteries as well as Shore power that it's hooking up
to the Grid on and either pulling from those batteries or charging from the the Grid in
order to allow for a 3000 watt system throughout the house which gave us more than what we
needed as well as everything to run off-grid when we didn't have power so it would run
the batteries down as far as it could and then it would either recharge with the solar
that's on the roof or with the house system connected into the grip [Music] until next
time enjoy your journey my friends
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