hey there welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes so last week we
published a really fun video where we decorated a tiny home for Halloween and this week we're
revisiting that same tiny home to give you a full tour this tiny home has everything including a
downstairs bedroom and many luxury upgrades it's definitely going to be one of the favorite tiny
homes that we've ever featured on this channel if you like these kind of videos make sure that
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we publish a new tour but right now let's take a tour of Shelley's luxury tiny home thank you
hi I'm Shelly and this is my tiny house and I call it the tiny
I think I got interested in tiny homes by looking at YouTube videos and thinking they
were adorable and more like a playhouse I always wanted a playhouse as a kid and never got one I
think it was the kid in me that wanted to try it out the real impetus was getting a divorce
I thought okay I don't know what the rental market is going to be like so if I ordered
a tiny house and found some property I'd be more secure and live the dream of a tiny house
I moved into my tiny house the first of May of this year so that's about seven months so far
I love living in my tiny house I really like the Simplicity of it and that it's just my space and I
keep it just the way I like it and it's very cozy I will be able to sell the tiny house or possibly
rent it in the future so I think it was wise financially to do it this way versus rent which
you never get back foreign this is my tiny house it was built by Summit tiny homes in Canada and
it's 36 feet long eight and a half feet wide and it is a Bohemian style of theirs that I tweaked
a little bit I really liked the shingles on the top but I did a darker stain with the black and in
the summer it's been a little hot but I think in the winter I'm going to reap the benefits of that
we did add this deck which makes a huge difference for Mother's Day my family came together and
helped put this together and it's provided some dry entrance in and out the door but also it's
provided this outdoor space that has extended what the tiny house feels like inside to a bigger
outside area and it has made a huge amount of difference so the roofing material actually really
helps to let the light in so it doesn't block the tiny house also the view of the sky I just love
and I didn't want to shut that off but yet it still protects the doorway as you go in and out
the little cutout here was part of the design it does add some interest so that's not just
a wall so I liked it also the windows it kind of offsets them a little bit and it's
not quite as hot I think but it provides the light all together I think I spent about 137
000 on this tiny house it wasn't a bad price given how expensive construction is these days
I felt like I got a really it's a quality house it's so well built so this is for my mini split
which is both the heat and air conditioning which is a treat and it's run by propane
and then around back I have the rest of my utilities here's where my water comes in and
I bought a eco-friendly or you know safe hose to bring my water in so it's safe to drink out of
and then I have a typical RV hookup here that goes to the temporary pole over there when I
purchased this property there was water to the property well it hadn't been hooked up yet and
electricity that was not quite brought all the way down the conduit yet but I had that hooked up
along with the Transformer that allowed me to be able to power my tiny house doing that was quite
a process it took a long time and it was about fifteen thousand dollars which was pretty costly
so triple Axel trailer and this is the vent for the composting toilet it's a
fan that runs all the time and so no smell in the tiny house at all and here I have two
propane tanks when one's empty it'll switch to the other and that is my oven and my heating
now that you've seen the outside of my tiny house let me show you the inside
welcome inside is my kitchen and it's pretty adequate actually for a tiny house I think
it has a really nice sink I have Ample Storage and I love my little mini oven
it takes like no time to heat up and I actually have four burners which is
I think rare in a tiny house and a nice fan and light over here to help protect
the space and keep it nice and safe I love my open shelves it's kind of fun to display things
and I love my little unique fridge that's kind of this mini retro it holds everything
that I need which I was a little worried about and even the freezer is a pretty decent size
the countertop is actually butcher block it kind of looks more like it's a fake wood but
it's real wood so it can be sanded down if it has damage what I like about it is
not only the warmth and the prettiness but it was lighter and cheaper than the option
of like granite or other solid surface and it matches the shelves and I wanted
a little more of the warmth of the wood throughout since there's a lot of white
so the shelves were part of their original design and they did have one iteration where someone did
put a cabinet here but it really blocked off the space so I opted to go with the open shelves and
I had intention actually of making them deeper and putting my plates there but once it arrived
I actually thought the small shelves were adequate and I fit my dishes just fine in this big drawer
because I have a pretty good cabinet space below it just wasn't necessary like I thought
I thought this dish rack was like perfect for the tiny house because it does slide
out and becomes bigger so you have a little more room for drying things and then when
you're done with it you can you know make it smaller so it doesn't take up room and it's
you know I can also move it out of the way a little bit more I tend to keep it
there because I just have to do my dishes every day since I don't have a dishwasher
I found this little rack at the thrift store and I had thought about placing it here but then I
got the idea to hang it since I already had this all nice and tidy and that gave me the idea to
hang a couple other things like the spoon and the cheese grater especially because that takes up a
lot of drawer space and it kind of looks cool so it all worked as well as like this I found
at the thrift store and it provided not only you know space for quick use utensils but also it kind
of looked neat because this already was built in there and needed something of Interest behind it
so these cutting boards I got in northern Minnesota when I was visiting my mom I was
what I really like is that they're you know the different Stripes of different kinds of woods but
it worked out so perfectly to bring in the wood color of my shelves kind of down into the space
and the pantry the slide outs has been super great and really well proportioned because I've
been able to fit things pretty well in there sometimes you have to you know tilt things a
little bit to pull them out but I was amazed at how much food that I fit in here and sometimes
when I do buy things that will need to go in the refrigerator I just start with them in the
refrigerator even though I haven't opened them if this is particularly full so it's kind of
been a process of learning how best to do it but I've been very impressed on how much this holds
so when I first was expecting the tiny house I thought this space would have more room or be
recessed to have a shelf and coat hook area and when it arrived and I realized the door really
opens right into this I thought okay that's not going to happen but luckily I was at a garage sale
and found this so you can have guests put their coats there or if my coat is wet when I come in
I'm able to put it here until it's dry before I put it away so that came in really handy I
love this little space up here to just hide some gloves and hats so as you're going out the door
it's really convenient to grab those as well as my keys my sunglasses are stored here or I put
outgoing mail in these little slots and it's kind of funny I ordered this on Amazon thinking it was
this much bigger thing and when it arrived it was so tiny but it fit perfectly in that space
I didn't know what I was going to do for the table because what they had in their original designs I
didn't really like so I said just don't give me a table I'll figure it out when it arrives and I
was able to find this locally it was just perfect for this face because it's a boat table and it has
these leaves now we've cut the other one off because it was a little too big but
it allows me to have a bigger space but not have to knead it up all the time it goes up
and down it has a little rocker storage space in here that I have some napkins and placemats
washer and dryer in the tiny house I've lived in a trailer without a washer and dryer and that was
probably the only thing that I remember was the difficulty so I did opt for having this it does
both which is pretty convenient it's very small but it actually does a pretty decent
sized load and I have a line outside that this summer I've been drying my clothes on the line
up here is pretty much my storage Loft that's a little bit bigger than like a twin size bed
but I use it for storage and how I get up there is this nice little tucked in ladder drags out
and so that it's at an angle and it has this bar to hold on to so you can safely get up and down
and I put this plant here to block the view of the rest of the containers up here but I
have my off season clothes up here my suitcase some extra shoes I do have my stereo up here
and now we're moving into the bathroom it has a little pocket door here
this is a bigger bathroom than they had originally designed and I thought it was too small so I had
them actually make it bigger and take a little room out of the bedroom because I figured the
bedroom is really just for sleeping and I also had them add these shelves that I've stored some
clothes in so there was additional storage for clothes that way but the shower is actually quite
big and has a view outside so it could be better than that and it's luckily a private space so it's
not a concern but it's a pretty easy shower to keep clean but it's not too tiny in a tiny house
so I have a composting toilet it's the separate brand liquids go with the gray
water and then the solids get collected in a bucket that I empty once a month there's
no smell there's no noise it's actually been pretty easy and I have really no complaints
and now we'll head into the bedroom again another pocket door this is a double sized
bed I bought the headboard through Wayfair and it's just a you know single headboard
I design and help build the bed which has storage below it it has got hinges that you can lift up
which provides a ton of extra room for clothes because otherwise it would be pretty tricky too
get all my clothes in this very small little closet here in the original design they wanted
to put two one in each corner but I felt like it would impede me moving in and out
especially in the middle of the night I really like how big and spacious it feels in here and
I think the only thing is I would not put that light there I thought it would be too dark if I
didn't have a light and then I had these put in for reading and I I shouldn't have even had that
light in there thought would be one change I'd make and that's why I've lifted it up
so the flowers I ordered again off Wayfair and it was a pre-made flower set but you had to cut
them out that was a little bit tricky but it was super fun to add a little bit of drama and
contrast with the black and white because I didn't want too much hanging there because you do have to
get over there to make the bed just the punch of something fun I also have a neat saying on this
wall that I wake up to and it says today I choose awesome because every day we should choose awesome
so now we're on the other end of my tiny house where my mini split is and that's my heat and the
air conditioning and it's run by propane it's super efficient it doesn't reach the bedroom
particularly well but I do also have heated floors and since you're supposed to sleep best
in a cool room it works out okay and eventually the heat does kind of get in this living space
I found this couch was modular and you can add pieces so I can pull this over here and
make an L I can pull it Forward just to stretch my legs but it's also a conversation piece and
if I wanted to I could take it out here and add a section to make it bigger we did add
this to kind of like a floating desk so that's where I sit and do a lot of my work sometimes I
face this way sometimes I face this way I have my yoga ball that I sit on sometimes or I can
pull the kitchen table chair over and sit so it's kind of nice to have options in the small space
so I have quite a bit of storage in my staircase I even have this nice little shelf in here I have
the hot water heater here and some Plumbing down below but I'm able to put my recycling down there
and then I store shoes and a blender and I even fit my juicer into the tiny house but that has
fit and then in here is kind of my exercise stuff my yoga mat and my weights and jump rope and this
step has games and some candles and stuff so quite a bit of storage in this stairway I love my plants
they're the only other living thing in my tiny house with me and they also just add some color
but the fresh air exchange that they give and the beauty of them of course and then it also
was just nice to have something to line the stairs with and I do have to point out my round window
because I did add that and I really love the round window and get a lot of comments about that
so up we go this is my bigger Loft I anticipate working more up here in the winter when it's going
to be cozy and warm but this is kind of my office space but in the summer it's pretty hot up here
but I had my first overnight guest this weekend it was my daughter and so I brought the this is
actually a queen size mattress topper so you can see it fits well with still even space and so she
said she loved looking up at the stars because the Skylight up here really adds a lot of light
up here as well so then you can look through knit into the tiny house which is kind of a fun View
this is definitely a fun adventure but it is a means to an end I am in the process of building
a prefab house on this property that I purchased so in deciding where the new home will go and
where the windows should face and all of that it's really been great to be on the property the
plan is to enjoy the tiny house until that time things aren't going super fast so I could be in
the dining house for another year or so before I get to move into the other house I love houses
and I love making spaces so going tiny has really helped me to get organized declutter and just get
the Bare Essentials I decided to start a business around helping people downsizing from either a big
home to a small home or other people that are you know empty nests or getting things to be
simple because it does open up more time and money for you to do other things that you really enjoy
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