hey there welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes with the
holidays just around the corner today we're featuring a tour of a tiny house that's been
super decorated for Christmas this tiny home belongs to Luanne and she's going to tell
us why she decided to downsize and how it's afforded her to have the life of her dreams
luanne's tiny house is parked in one of the largest tiny house villages in the entire
country and if you're interested in seeing our tour of this Village make sure you check out the
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hi I'm Luanne this is Bentley and this is my tiny house the nest [Music]
I was immediately fascinated by tiny homes I knew that that's what I wanted to do I
wanted to live in a tiny house I didn't know anything about them yet I didn't know what
size but I was fascinated about living in a space with just the things that you need
I think I was just so ready to downsize that it wasn't heartbreaking to get rid
of these things it was kind of freeing it was freeing to not have all of that anymore [Music]
so when it came time to actually buy a house I'd been watching a lot of videos but I'd
kind of honed in on incredible tiny homes with Randy Jones and just felt like that's
where I wanted to have my house built and he was building communities here which was huge to me
I got this house for just under seventy nine thousand dollars it was about a year
and a half from the time that I put my first deposit down to when I moved into my house
I've lived here a little over a year I'm not in my permanent lot yet I'm suddenly seeing this
lot but people who live in this community pay 200 a month for their rent we pay an
extra like 25 a month right now for water and then we pay our own electric which is
an amazing deal I just retired I can live on my Social Security here which is great
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for the outside of my house I went with lap siding just a wood lap siding because I wanted
it to have a real natural feel but I wanted white trim to make it pop a little bit and
then went with the black metal for the roofing the sound of rain on the Roof Is Magical even
though Bentley doesn't like it very much the dimensions are 10 feet wide by 28 feet long
and I believe it's 13 and a half feet tall I had stayed in uh eight and a half by 19 foot
house for a weekend and knew that I wanted to have something a little larger than that for
my permanent home so when I knew that the 10 foot wide was available I wanted to go with that just
to keep the price in the area that I wanted to 28 feet worked out perfectly and I love it
were also decorated with my 12-man Seahawks flag because I lived in Seattle for 23 years
before moving here so go Hawks this is the Seahawk contingent here incredible tiny homes
I love to decorate for Christmas and I actually did decorate it for fall I don't normally decorate
all the time but I love Christmas here's the start of it wait till you get inside
so let's head over to the front of the house [Music]
but I was playing in the house I wanted to have a lot of light coming in so I plan to
have nine Windows which kind of brought light in from all sides of the house
just to have a little variation in the siding we put Cedar Shakes up in the Dormers which is just
a nice change of texture [Music] okay I want to take you over to the shed so this is my little
mini me shed I painted it so it would look kind of like the house I've always wonder where I store my
Christmas decorations and tables other things it all goes in here which is wonderful incredible
tiny homes built this shed we all have exactly the same shed but we can decorate it however we want
okay come on in I'll show you the inside
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as you can see this is the main living area in the house which I love the 10 foot width
because it just gives so much room for living I love how this all works out
we can actually fit 10 people in here for a dinner party so it's been really fun dinner
parties we did a Downton Abbey tea we've done craft days here the community is a huge part
of being here and I've made some wonderful friends it's fun to gather people together
[Music] so when I was planning the house they said it's a really great idea to have Windows
opposite your door so when you walk in it doesn't feel really closed in you feel like
you're looking right back out into nature so that was really important to me to place these
windows here and the other thing that I wanted to have something dividing The Loft from down
here because I didn't want my dog to take a header off the Loft and it worked out great because I can
put all my books up there and it gives privacy up in the Loft if somebody else is staying here too
so let's head into the kitchen now [Music] so in the kitchen this is my pantry and then
just other food storage Bentley has his own little drawer with all of his goodies in there
and then all the pots and pans and that type of thing are all in the corner cabinet and it works
out great if I was going to do anything different I might not have had the cooktop put in the
counter but have a portable one that I could lift out which would leave countertop free if I'm not
cooking necessarily what I use the most is this I don't know if it's called a toaster oven but it's
a dehydrator an air fryer it does a little bit of everything so that gets used the most and then and
then the cooktop and then there's a microwave up here too which is also really handy one thing that
people like and I had seen it in another tiny house is putting the shelf across the windows I
like the look of it and it gives you more space to store things so that's been a great addition
countertop is Butcher Block which is what came with it but I love it and then they
put in a little drop sink here so that works out great and there's actually
another piece of countertop that I can drop into the sink so when we're doing a buffet
it just carries over and and covers over so it can use the whole the whole counter
and then moving over here this is like my work area it's where I eat or I do crafts I wanted
a table that I could do all those things at and found this wonderful antique table in the town
next door so that was a find and I love having the window here I've got a bird feeder right outside
so I can watch the birds while I'm sitting here but this has been a wonderful part of my tiny
so up above me in the Loft you'll see there's the mini split which provides heat and air
conditioning so the air conditioning is great it works on its own the heat is
good but heat rises and it's a pie and the fan that I bought doesn't have a reverse on
it to bring heat down so there's also on my fireplace it gives off heat so between the
mini split and the fireplace that works great and then actually in my bathroom I
have a little space heater that I'll use in the morning when I'm taking a shower
okay let's head down to the hallway now when I was downsizing I knew that storage would be a really
important thing I knew I wanted this calyx shelf from Ikea because it would have so much storage
in it it serves as my dresser as storage for sewing materials for so many different things
I wanted to have a place for hanging clothes so I figured at the end of the bookshelf
I could do that here and kind of hide it away the hangers stuck out further than I planned on so I
got children's hangers and it works out great because they just don't come out quite as far
so it doesn't come out as far into the hallway so let's head upstairs to the bedroom foreign [Music]
love this bedroom it's so cozy it doesn't feel claustrophobic at all I have a queen
size foam it's not even a mattress it's just a high density four inch foam that I have in
here so I'm five foot seven I believe this is 43 inches from the floor to the ceiling so I
have plenty of room to sit up it's easy to crawl into the space I actually got an extra piece of
foam and put it right by the top of the stairs so when I'm crawling in I'm crawling on foam all the
way in this is the back side of the bookcase the slab has just worked out so well foreign [Music]
come on in it's so nice because it's very spacious for a bathroom and a tiny house
I knew when I was designing the house that I wanted to have the stairs going up the back of the
house so my biggest concern was that the washer dryer would fit underneath the stairs but it
worked out perfectly so I got my combo washer and dryer which I love it some people don't like them
I don't know why because this has worked perfectly for me and then I have on-demand water [Music]
and I've got a 36 inch shower in the condo that I had in Seattle in the
master bedroom I had a 32 inch shower so this feels really spacious to me
I didn't plan on the keystone arch the carpenter that built the stairs and did all the woodwork
here on the inside he just did it on his own but I love it it's beautiful I had to
be careful the first couple times hit my head on the corner but you learned very quickly not
to do that [Music] I think the best part of tiny living is just how it simplifies your life but
also just the Financial Freedom that it gives my house is paid for it's kind of incredible
I can't tell you how many times I've just sat and just looked at my house and I'm like
I can't believe this was all in my head and now I'm sitting in it I just want to thank
incredible tiny homes what they're doing here is amazing and it's making tiny house living
affordable for people this is a miracle I can't believe this has happened because
of them I've got this sweet little house my little cottage the life I want to live
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