hey guys welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes in today's
episode we're going to meet a family whose patriarch wanted out of the Rat Race So he
decided to start a tiny home family business and it's just given us so much more time to be
together as a family my wife and I we see each other more now at home and at our business of
taking care of these tiny houses it's just really awesome they're going to take us on a tour of a
few of their gorgeous tiny homes and explain why this career has completely changed their lives
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hi I'm Christine I'm Isaac and I'm Matt and we're
excited to show you Hocking Hills tiny houses [Music]
we currently have five tiny homes building more all our tiny houses are right around the
same general area within about two miles of each other centered around Lake Logan
these are mostly for rent to tourists to the area [Music]
first was the gladiola that was several years back the second tiny house we built is called
the Trillium then we came to build the third one which is actually the Juniper our fourth
tiny house was the hemlock and then our fifth tiny house which is our newest one is the dogwood
before we started this tiny house business I worked as an engineer you know it was really
just Christine raising five kids and me helping out when I could and Christine always said you
know there's the tourism business here in the Hocking Hills is getting bigger
and bigger we gotta figure something out to take advantage of that and get you away from
that high stress job and by golly this tiny house business has kind of done it for us
this business as a family which has been great our kids have been helping us build
them all in our very first tiny house was kind of the brain plan of our oldest Isaac he got
the trailer we built that all as a family project and then kind of went on from there
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Welcome to our Juniper tiny house this is the third tiny house that we built so we took some
of the lessons from the first two and put it into this one this is a 24 foot trailer double axle 7
500 pound each axle tiny house weighs about 13 000 pounds if I'm uh if I'm not mistaken you can see
we kind of bumped out another couple feet there on the end just to give us some more living room the
roof is a steel roof It's relatively very easy to work with and assemble and get on there one
thing that we think is important is to have good insulation in the ceiling of course in the roof
but uh to have venting so these ridges that are cut in there allows air to come in from the front
or back and move out the opposite side if there's any moisture in there it helps to dry that out and
really prevent any mold and will do from forming one of the features of our first three tiny houses
was an arbor over the top and obviously lots of holes so it's not for protection from rain or
all that but just adds a little design feature we like having the the string lights on the outside I
think it adds a bit of ambiance at night [Music] on the exterior we use this LP panel board with
LP strips I think it's real important to be sure that you you know we caulk all of these edges and
seams and then paint over top of that paint on this design we obviously have the cedar that you
know weathers pretty well I think you know the worn look is kind of what we're going for kind
of a rugged kind of look on the outside which I think kind of works so obviously in a tiny house
the inside Space is relatively small it's real important to have a nice outdoor space for our
guests to be able to enjoy the outdoors to have a place where you can have a great fire place to
sit around and enjoy maybe make some s'mores we like to provide that experience for folks [Music]
when we designed the Juniper I wanted to have the space be bright so that it seemed clean and open
so we have the living room up a couple steps where we have storage underneath for most of
our utilities it still has an open feel even though it has its own separate area
we did get our nephew to build this Live Edge Bar for us there is quite a bit of space to eat
but it doesn't take a whole lot of space from the width of the house you can sit here in the morning
eating breakfast and you have a great view out the large window looking at Lake Logan [Music]
which takes up the majority of the space of our tiny house we wanted to make sure
that they had everything that they needed such as a toaster oven a microwave and refrigerator
and we do have an induction portable range that we keep tucked away here in the steps
so if anybody wants to do any cooking they can just sit this out on the countertop a lot of the
appliances the toaster oven and the microwave are tucked underneath I don't like to have the
countertop seem cluttered with items so that just helps make the space look bigger and open
okay let's check out the bathroom for the bathroom we decided to make it larger everybody likes a
larger space to get ready so uh this one has a full-size vanity and a couple drawers for storage
which is nice for guests we did originally have a separate toilet but we switched that out with
a regular flush toilet and everybody seems to like that and it's a lot easier to clean I enjoy that
as well we've got a shower here it's a 30 inch shower so it's not too large but it's not too
small it's plenty of room we do have enough room to put a bench here so that you can lay
out your clothes when you're getting ready okay let's go upstairs and see the bedroom [Music]
so this is our bedroom area it's actually a loft bedroom but if you're laying in the bed you don't
need a whole lot of space this is actually a full-size bed in some of our tiny houses we have
queen size so if you're laying down it's okay if the ceiling is too close it works out well and due
to the slope of the ceiling if you're a little bit taller you can sleep on this side laying
here in bed you can look out the side windows and have a beautiful view of the lake foreign
Dogwood tiny house again a 24 foot trailer my favorites part of this tiny house is the
location we're nestled here on a mature wooded Hillside Forest to sit on this deck and you know
look up you see the trees and the leaves just sort of swaying with the wind it's really very
peaceful you really feel it one with nature and I think that kind of ties in even when you're
inside with that big window in there you know you still kind of feel like you're in nature
even though you're either air conditioned or heated the siding here is this is the nickel
Gap tongue and groove Cedar you know we put a nice finish on it so that it's gonna weather well and
last well probably every one or two years we want to put you know a protective coat on this Cedar
but otherwise it's holding up really well once we had the tiny house situated where we wanted
the window to look out to we realized we had a really nice space for this deck that looked into
the forest really like the step down it kind of makes it feel like there's two different
rooms out here I think one for dining with the picnic table one for sitting and sitting around
a campfire and roasting we came up with this way to put the pavers into the deck and then put the
fire pit on top I think it just looks kind of interesting it sort of protects the deck boards
from you know any Embers that might fall out of it so we really like this fire pit as well
okay come on inside
so welcome to the inside of the Dogwood it's a little bit different from our first three tiny
houses the inspiration for this design was we have a lot of cabins here in the Hocking Hills
and so we decided to do a warm inside cozy Cedar but I wanted to make it still keep it modern so
we've got touches of black there is a small table which we didn't have in our first three
so it's kind of nice to be able to sit across from someone and play games and have dinner
here since the bedroom is on the first floor it still feels nice and open since you are going
to be doing quite a bit more lounging on the bed we did make the bed a little bit larger
it's a queen size bed on a raised platform with a little bit of our storage underneath what our
guests seem to like most is the 7x7 foot window on the end of the tiny house they often say how
they like to watch the deer and the raccoons and even the Stars when the leaves are off the trees
one thing we had to deal with in this tiny house that was different from the others is the big 7x7
window behind me something I learned from work doing uh HVAC design glasses generally your worst
case when it comes to heat loss and one of these things and this is basically a whole wall of glass
so if we didn't do anything we just had the mini split for heating it would be pretty challenging
to heat up over here especially since our mini split sits high the heat stays up that's another
reason we have these fans in here to offset this window here we put some vents flush to
the floor and underneath that there's a strip of baseboard heat that's underneath there and it's
on a thermostat and it heats up it basically heat rises up from that and offsets the downdraft from
the big window so goal being and I think it works pretty well is when you're sitting next to that
bed you don't feel any drafts from that window it feels like you know you're still pretty comfy
next to it as opposed to some of the other tiny houses we did put the heated floor all the way
through underneath the floor so we've got it in the kitchen and then also this bathroom as well
all right so let's head over head over the bathroom [Music] so heading into the bathroom
we've got our take of a modern barn door with black metal and frosted glass so it's kind
of nice it allows some of the light to shine through the bathroom our guests seem to really
like it it's on the larger side from our original tiny house it's got a nice size vanity [Music]
we've got a uh 32 by 32 inch shower here and it seems to be larger than it is as well because
the ceilings are nice and tall in here we do have some windows up above that allow
you to look outside and have that nice open tall feel but still they're up high enough
to give you a good amount of privacy we do have a flush toilet which the guests also
seem to like over the separate toilets so that's a very nice feature as well [Music]
we're currently working on tiny house number six yet to be named not only having this tiny house
business as it allowed us to you know have a little business together where we can pay
our bills and all that but it's just given us so much more time to be together as a family my wife
and I we see each other more now at home and at our business of taking care of these tiny houses
it's just really awesome and not only that but I'm now in the Deacon formation program and come
back and visit me in two years and I should be in ordained Deacon God willing so that's
just part of our story thanks for watching this week's video please make sure to like
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