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My tiny house has done a lot for me over the past six years,
and I know a tiny house could do the same for you.
It changed my life in many ways,
and it taught me to reprioritize my personal values. Okay, guys,
if you're ready for this week's tiny house tour, let's jump right in.
I'm Derek I'm Kelly, and this is our beautiful house, tiny house, big sky.
Before we built our tiny house,
I was a contractor doing residential remodeling and additions and that kind of
thing.
I was a board certified behavior analyst and we lived in our rental
home.
It's about 1200 square feet. We found out about tiny living,
like a lot of people, I think who stumbled across a show on TV.
And I think we watched a handful and came across an episode that actually had
Jenna in it when they were taking their house across the country and,
and showed how they built it. And that kind of thing. We got really excited.
We went out, we bought a trailer, then we realized, Oh,
we want to get RV certified. Once we got approval,
the build on this, we got done in about another eight months.
Taught me a lot about construction.
I learned a ton good days and bad days throughout the build
for sure. And as anyone knows,
when you're taking on such a huge project with your spouse,
it's not always going to be rainbows and butterflies,
but I think it was a,
it was a good experience for us to work on something together.
And we're super proud of what we made. So I think total,
it was about 35 grand in material and then free
labor, lots of free labor. Yeah.
We found we could save money in some places.
And we tended to spend that in others. There's, you know, there were,
there were a lot of these like more RV specific things that were very expensive.
That adds up quickly. We spent a lot,
a lot of time hunting for materials. We bought these countertops.
They're reclaimed, you saved some money,
but then they were a foot short and we had to add in lays and do a bunch
of different funky things to try and make the material work.
But it turned out better than a new counter.
It did turn out awesome.
The stove that we have, we had looked and looked and looked.
I was a day away from ordering just a brand new black one that you know,
that you'd see in any new RV.
And this one that we have here came up on Craigslist and you know,
it was half the price of the new one and, and it's, it was perfect. I mean,
it's one of the highlights of our house. I feel like everybody just loves it.
I think it's just given us an opportunity to learn how to live with each
other a little bit better. Yeah. We still want to kill each other sometimes.
And I don't know if the small space helps that or hinders it or if it'd be the
same and yeah, it'd probably be the same.
I do know that just really love it here. It's not where the house is parked.
It's the house itself and it's just like it's home.
So we built the house on a 24 foot trailer,
but the total length is 27 feet.
We wanted to make sure the lofts were kind of open inside and how we did that.
We extended this back loft out three feet and actually hung this deck
from the loft. So this extends off the back of the trailer. It's been great.
Except when we go to move the house,
I have to make sure I'm very careful because the back end really likes to swing
now because the wheels are in the middle of the trailer. Now,
instead of being a little further back,
I learned that the hard way by clipping the tree,
the first time we went to park it wasn't great. So,
so we decided we wanted the house to be RV certified.
And we were able to do that through the state of Washington,
in order to do that,
we had to include a lot of the standard RV features like your
water, hookup power hookup. We have the same kind of sewer hookup.
One of the important features is the heat recovery ventilator.
We installed that because indoor air quality and tiny houses can be a major
problem there's issues with mold, et cetera.
And we wanted to make sure there was constantly fresh air going in and out of
the house.
So underneath the house or built into the floor system,
we have a pair of tanks for freshwater and a pair of tanks for
gray water.
The capacity of both those systems is 70 gallons just to help us if we
wanted to be off grid and wanted to be out somewhere, we could,
I don't know if we're going to end up using it, but it could be off grid,
just like an RV.
Welcome to the inside of our home.
And here we tried to go with a vintage farmhouse,
kind of feel have lots of antiques in here. We've got solid hardwood, floors,
just black walls and tongue and groove ceiling. We love all of those.
They did add to the weight however, we also have three skylights,
which add to the light in here.
We can crank those open and let the hot air out sometimes as well.
So we have a table here which folds out to make it bigger.
And then it also folds down to kind of make it disappear,
to give us more space in here.
We love having friends over play games and sometimes Derek and I can have a
dinner here as well.
So underneath the sink is a Craigslist find that I hunted and hunted and
hunted for, and finally found the right size and height.
It's about 110 years old. I love it.
I think it is my favorite thing in the house.
We just replaced the knobs and I really loved the way that it turned out
because we have a dog and a cat.
We had to find some place to put the litter box.
We were luckily able to put it right under here, the curtain over it.
It's kind of hidden out of the way, which is really nice.
One thing to note is our full size fridge.
It's somewhat uncommon for a tiny house.
We were able to get kind of a European style fridge that's narrow and
tall because we're out here on the ranch.
We have to have a full size fridge to stash all the necessary food
for about a week or so. So we're not making several trips into town.
We were able to put a somewhat decent sized closet here in the bathroom
where we can hang up our coats and our dresses and nicer clothes.
So for our shower, we have a horse trough as a tub. It's really nice.
Cause you can get down low and soak.
We have exposed copper plumbing just to kind of go with the feel of the house
and a rain head shower, which is actually a,
just a galvanized bucket that we drilled holes in. That's quite nice.
This area in the house is made up of a lot of thrift store or antique
fines. For instance, this really awesome dresser.
I got for $5 at a thrift store, so good find
And then this antique bowl we found and thought it would be perfect for a vessel
sink. So we just had a local guy drill a hole in it and made it in.
Everyone always wonders with tiny houses,
the toilet we went with the airhead composting toilet because it
has more of a ceramic style lid and seat on it.
It just seems a little bit more like a real toilet.
It separates the liquids and solids.
So what airhead actually does is they make a tank with a fitting on the bottom
so that you can actually plumb it into your gray water tank,
which is what we did.
And it's made a huge difference for us to not have to take that thing out
every, every few days. So also in the bathroom,
we have our washer dryer combo. It's really great.
It actually dries our clothes.
I know some people with the combo units have a hard time with that,
but it works well for us because it's small and it kind of fit well in this
cabinet.
Derek and I custom made this,
took a lot of planning to kind of get what we wanted from it.
There's storage underneath that pulls out and the lids flip over and turn
into Ottomans.
And then it also slides out into a pretty good sized bed for when we have
guests coming over.
Welcome to our guests loft. This is kind of a futon.
So it pulled down to a bed as well for when we do have guests.
And it's a pretty great place to hang out.
This here is a really big piece of our house.
It's obviously stands out in the house,
but it's also a dedication to my mom who passed away.
She loved the idea of a tiny house.
We weren't able to get it done before she passed,
but we went in to put something in here and just to remind us of her,
the story behind the butterfly is my best friend got married that year and they
were really close. And during her vows,
she mentioned my mom and how she wished that she was there.
And right at that moment,
a big butterfly came and flew around her head and then kind of flew off.
So since then, butterflies have kind of been a reminder of my mom.
So here we are up in the master loft where Derek and I sleep,
it's actually 12 feet long.
So it gives us a ton of room for storage and a big bed.
We have this big skylight here,
which I think helps with ceiling height. Number one, it gives us, you know,
about six inches extra.
So it doesn't seem as claustrophobic or make the ceiling seem so low
for a ceiling.
We chose tongue and groove and we stained it a bunch of different
shades and kind of made a pattern with it.
And I think it really adds to the kind of rustic farmhouse feel that we were
going for.
I love when people come into our house and feel inspired to
make their home their own by adding their own personal
touches. I know I worked really hard to make our house feel like that
plans for the future are pretty much here at the ranch.
We don't anticipate moving the house too much more.
We're hoping to turn more to farming and hopefully make a living off of
it. And that's something I don't think we could have done if we were living in a
regular big house. I don't think we would have been able to make this jump.
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