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hi i'm erica and i'm raymond this is our tiny house dos kleiner house
we're excited to show you our home today
before we started living tiny we were living in various rental roommate situations
it just was very frustrating to have to always pick up and move and and relocate and rearrange
our lives all the time we found out about tiny living initially when we
were living in england we had a friend out there mentioned something about tiny houses and we
kind of went oh what's what's that so started doing some initial research
being able to own our own home in our early 30s and be able to take it with us anywhere
if our situation changes seemed like a very feasible and realistic lifestyle for us
we've been living in our home for three years now
the whole build process for the house took about two and a half years once we actually got started
i designed everything from the ground up trailer made trailers out of olathe kind of worked with
us and came in and was basically a giant erector set stood the whole thing up in a weekend that in
total cost us about thirteen thousand dollars in total we're at about fifty thousand dollars
finding a parking spot is definitely a challenge and has always been a challenge for tiny houses
because there really isn't any zoning for them people don't know what to do with them
we found that la plata county where we're at is actually very tiny house friendly
there's about 13 tiny houses give or take
they're coming in and out where we're at now with the rv hookups it's kind of a perfect situation
this is our home das pina house which is german for the little house it's on a custom
26 and a half foot trailer with triple 6k axles let's go check out the inside
welcome to the inside of the house one thing that we really prioritized with our house was a big
kitchen we do a lot of cooking at home my husband is a runner he has a really high metabolism so we
have to have a lot of food on hand at all times so if you'll notice our countertop is quite long
it's about 13 feet one thing you'll notice about the countertop is it's actually much higher than
a standard countertop so these are 40 inches tall my husband and i are both on the tall side so it's
much more comfortable to work up a little bit higher than a normal countertop which would sit
kind of down here we actually used epoxy to create this effect on the countertop what i really wanted
was a pour in place concrete which isn't really conducive to a tiny house especially when it's
moving it's incredibly heavy the epoxy was a great alternative to that it's super lightweight comes
in a variety of colors and you can create some really cool effects to it so it kind of looks like
concrete without all that extra weight added into it as far as the kitchen table goes we do store
it underneath here encounter which is a really cool table this came from my grandparents house
so we put some new casters on it and it has two leafs that pull out so this is actually a very
very large table behind our table if you pull it all the way out we've turned our wheel well into
the liquor cabinet so we store you know our tequila our scotch all that good stuff under
here so it's nice and out of the way and we can pull that out and mix up our cocktails
so moving along the countertop we come up next to our sink i really wanted to do a really nice large
farmhouse apron front sink but we put a little twist on it and we got this
hand-hammered copper sink as you can see it's also sitting in front of this nice large window
to be able to look outside and really enjoy the view a lot of our storage under here with
the cabinets is open we do have doors in the works they just have not been installed yet
this is an rv style oven that runs on propane since the oven can be kind of tricky sometimes
we've actually started using our air fryer more it does things like baked potatoes french fries pizza
all that good stuff and it works really really well for those kinds of food items
opposite from where the oven is at we have our bar area here we have coffee tea setup
and this is also where we have the beer keg that ray mentioned in the mechanical room so
we don't often have this hooked up but it is nice to have for parties and things like that
so we have that here with the drip pan so next to the bar we have the fridge
so this is 9.2 cubic feet so an apartment-sized fridge
in our house we definitely kept in mind that we needed a lot of space for storage not necessarily
because we had a lot of stuff in the beginning but knowing that we needed to make sure that
space was available so one of the ways that we did that was creating storage space under our stairs
each step has different kind of cubbies and nooks to put things on this largest one we actually
have our record player that slides out it is a bluetooth record player that hooks up to a speaker
this is where the wheel well is at on the other side of the trailer so we use that to store things
now we're in the bathroom which as you can see is pretty small we don't spend a lot of time in the
bathroom so we didn't feel the need to make it sort of this large luxurious space where we're
gonna spend a lot of time getting ready on this side we do have nature's head composting toilet
but now that we're in more of a permanent parking situation
i think we will be switching over to a flushing toilet and hooking up to septic
above that we do have our toiletries cabinet so if you open this up everything stores very nicely
in here but you'll notice it is open on this side and that leads directly into the mechanical room
so this gives us easy access to things like fire extinguisher fuse box extra towels and so on
so one of our favorite features in the house is actually here in the bathroom he did towel rack
we had one in our house when we lived in england and they're really amazing they dry your towels
really quickly but it's also great when it's rainy or snowy and you're kind of soaked when you walk
in you can throw it on this guy for you know half an hour or so voila you've got dry clothes again
so then the opposite side of the bathroom is the shower this is also another place in the house
where we used epoxy so we just picked a different color scheme it's sort of the dark background with
the copper highlights in it we've got a little nook in here where we keep the shampoo soap etc
and then we stuck with the copper pipes and really cool copper range shower head in here
also if you were to look down on the floor we do have a penny floor which was a lot of fun to
install got about 56 dollars worth of pennies in here so if anybody needs any change let us know
here we are on the living room section which is kind of the end of the kitchen right here at the
end we've got these wonderful ukulele and cigar box guitars i have zero musical talent but i think
they're pretty and they can actually come with a nice story it's actually autographed by tenacious
d kyle glass and jack black 49 yards you know so what big plant people you'll notice throughout the
house i got plants all over we actually found this nice little lego one uh they have a nice lego set
of different varieties of flowers they have this one and the next one we're gonna get is
a bonsai tree so i think it'd be really cool so here in the living room we've got our tv
kind of entertainment center this is the part of the living room that's
changed the most it's still a work in progress we recently added in this shelf i'm an avid
photographer so i've got some classic cameras this is one of my favorites it's an old voigtlander
we used to have a built-in bench couch and it was one of the most uncomfortable
couches we've ever sat on we tried different foams we tried different pillow backdrops
nothing seemed to work to make it comfortable there's also an awkward height this is a nice
ikea couch very comfortable it's got actually two hidden compartments which is fantastic for us
it has this guy here popped up full of board games and then this pulls out
and now we have a lane lounge night for movies playing games you name it so here in the living
room we have a storage loft the original plan for this was for it to be a office
it didn't fit everything we needed now it's a storage spot
but it has this handy little ladder which we just pop down
now we can go up and down pretty easy up here we have all kinds of random storage
we have our scarfs ukulele case some spare books that don't really fit on our shelves
we want to pull out every now and then and then each of us has our own little bin so
when we need something we would just grab the bin pull it down and then stuck it back up here
helps keep the space nice and organized let's head upstairs and i'll show you the bedroom
so here we are in the bedroom it's actually 13 and a half feet long and as you can see i can sit
up in bed no problem we have a queen size bed so it gives us a little bit of space on either side
we have two windows creates a great breeze gets real comfortable at night
i wanted to sleep staring at the stars so we have two skylights we each have our own
look up to it it's real nice to watch the weather move in
and then here on the front side we have our closet which is all of our clothes and we have some
drawers to store the stuff and a small spot for the dogs when they join us in the evenings we kind
of wanted to create a visual separation between the downstairs and the bedroom run of the bedroom
to be a little more open because lofts tend to be a little tight so to do that we actually added in
this dark wood uh these are old fence posts i got 300 square feet of it for like 50 bucks
on the outside here we have a combination of wood and metal siding we like the aesthetic of
the different angles and the different textures that it provides and then the roof is called an
interlocking metal roof system it's made out of recycled aircraft aluminum and weighs about 150
pounds so super lightweight and it has a lifetime warranty so definitely a good investment for us
we also have our hammock hitch something that my husband ray designed
we love spending time out here relaxing in the hammock having a cocktail
one thing i really wanted in the house was a dutch door so having
one door with the two halves and the top part can actually open up hi ray um so this is just kind
of a fun spot to hang out with our neighbors have a chat it's nice to open on these nice
warm sunny days here in durango and it opens up the space so it doesn't feel so claustrophobic
welcome to the west side of the house also happens to be our hitch side
on it we have our bikes so durango is a super bike friendly town and then this is kind of my
little man cave garage store my toys we'll load it up with a lot of fly fishing gear some tools
beer and my nerf gun collection because you know the little kids around here will be pests
in my little garage i actually have a little cubby here this is where i keep my keg storage for my
beer tap inside and all my beer making supplies so here we are on the south facing wall this is the
back side opposite of our front door this is what the sighting originally looked like when we did it
we had attempted shotsugiban i at the time didn't know what i was doing so it didn't come out very
well so it's nice and faded you can see where some of the sealant was chipping away now and
eventually we plan on just doing a whole remodel of the siding and make it look real nice and fresh
so here we are on the front side here we have our sign for the house um this used to be once bright
and vibrant but it's since kind of you know worn over the last three years but this is a sign with
the name for the house and then it's autographed by everyone who helped us build it so we were a
diy build everyone who helped do something kind of left their mark for us so we always had a
memento for them one of the biggest questions we get and i know there's going to be a lot of them
is what are those things on our roof these little hooks are not for hanging chairs hammocks whatever
to actually keep the snow off with that high pitch right there especially over the door
it acts as a good snow stop hits that it actually does such a good job i've
got to beat the snow off with the brush in the winter or it just consistently drips
living tiny and owning our own house in durango in our 30s we're able to go out and explore and
play a little more than someone who's trying to make a giant mortgage payment for 30 years we can
take those jobs that we enjoy may not make a ton of money but i love what i do building and living
in a tiny house was sort of an ideal situation for the two of us we never really latched on
to the idea of buying a traditional home but still take pride in ownership of something
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