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our last episode featured one couple's off-grid A-frame cabin which they built for twenty five
hundred dollars and this week we're featuring that same couple who have now built a micro
cabin on wheels for just eighteen hundred dollars both of these episodes are great
examples for what you can do with a teeny tiny amount of space and a micro budget to go with it
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back in with this couple and take a tour of their micro cabin on wheels thank you [Music]
hi I'm Jack and I'm Riley and we built two tiny cabins here in Minnesota
Welcome to our travel cabin this is an ultra tiny house only 32 square feet
foreign
for the last decade of my life I've been on constant Adventures traveling all over
the country in the world going to national parks and when I moved here from California
I was worried about leaving the mountains in the desert behind it how is I going to
get that nature fixed we knew we needed a space on wheels that we could take with us
the travel cabin was born out of a love of our tiny A-frame cabin here and wanting to
be able to take a space like that with us wherever we go but we also wanted
to do that on a friendly budget I would call our travel cabin a micro tiny house
I built a travel cabin on a 4x8 trailer that's only 32 square feet and the reason I did that
was because I drive a Subaru Outback so I definitely wasn't going to be able to tow
like a larger tiny house I had to kind of stick within the 2 000 pound weight
limit so it only took me six days of work to construct the shell of the travel cap [Music]
after that the interior has been a journey of adding things subtracting things that has
been going on for the last five months it is at where it's at now after months of trial and error
I was able to put together that cabin for around eighteen hundred dollars
so the travel cabin here is built on a four by eight utility trailer frame I
wanted it to be able to be towed behind our Subaru Outback and you knew I'd fit in there
exactly she's tiny so she fits perfectly me me not I'm not so tiny and I fit great too
when I built the cabin here I did so with a shed roof and the reason for that is I wanted
the airflow to be able to go up and over the roof while we traveled down the highway a lot
of people have told me that this thing looks like an outhouse and I had no intention of making it
look like that but you know it is what it is it is kind of an outhouse because we take it out
and it's our house I definitely wanted to have a door that had some windows on it and I found
this door for free and so that was great I just got it put it together painted it green and that
was that now I did a few modifications to it I just added this little Carabiner on a piece of
rope and put this little bracket on here so that when we're driving down the highway I can have it
like that and that way if it does somehow open it's not going to just fly out and fly off of I
picked the color scheme as an homage to our family cabin that is up north in Minnesota
it's been there since 1936. the colors up there are green with this nice dark stain and then we
also have a little touch right here which I love and my mother-in-law and his mom got it
for us as a gift we go to all these different places but we always have our home with us
so if you come over to the side here this is where we have our outdoor shower and
I'll show you exactly how that works it's just a good old-fashioned bucket
and a rechargeable shower pump that we attach to the side of the cabin here
take the shower head and it mounts right up here and then this pump will turn on
and you put it into your bucket full of water the water comes out of the shower head it's really
really nice and simple and that's what we wanted because we're not using this for everyday use now
a lot of people have these great tankless propane camp water heaters nowadays but I have not gotten
one yet and that's because I have this immersion rod and this thing will heat up the water super
hot the only catches is I have to plug it into a power inverter in my car to do so but it does
give us hot water and someday we'll upgrade to the propane system for the shower I just built
this little platform because I've taken enough outdoor showers where I was standing on gravel or
dirt and your feet just get all muddy and so it's super nice to be able to stand on the platform
so now let's talk about our windows we got both of these windows there's also one identical on
the other side we got them on Facebook Marketplace it allows a lot of airflow into the cabin space
and it also makes the cabin feel a lot bigger than it is so when I first built the trailer I
had the axle that came with it and it was super Rusty and I could tell it wouldn't support much
weight so I had a custom 3500 pound axle made for this trailer and what was great about it
is it made it so I could put these bigger tires on they hold a lot more weight and they're just
more steady but also what this did was I was able to extend the axle out to make it a five
foot axle so having the five foot axle and the bigger tires it made it much safer to tow and uh
I really really love it alright so let's take a look at the back here uh the first thing is
this container which houses our diesel heater this thing pumps really clean dry heat into the
cabin now it is a portable diesel heater so we can use this thing either here or down at our
other cabin so this thing is really really great and it keeps us toasty warm on days like today
[Music]
of the entire cabin it is our is our octagon window it kind of reminds me of a window that
you would see on an old ship I love the look of it and just makes for a beautiful
view especially when you first wake up in the morning and get to have your coffee and stare out
and one little detail that I want to touch on is this flashing that I put on the corners of the
cabin here I did this to add a little bit of extra aerodynamics and it may seem like nothing but
believe it or not having this rounded really does help a little bit with airflow when you're moving
down the road and I also think it looks kind of cool too everyone wants to know what the bathroom
situation is and this is it a good old-fashioned bucket with a toilet seat nothing fancy yeah
now um because this is our travel trailer we're not using it full time and so this
works just fine what you do is you put a bag in here you wrap it around the toilet
you do your business you take it out and you can dispose of it so that is that
and then down below here we have these RV jacks we have four of them just to
make sure we can level out the travel cabin as well as just make it more stable when we
park it and those things are super super nice let's show you the inside of the tiny cabin
[Music] it's not a lot of space but I think we've done a pretty good job of setting this
up to utilize everything that we possibly can we have definitely had a lot of trial
and error when it comes to the travel cabin it probably took us a good three months to
finally get it all locked in and how we can both travel comfortably together [Music]
what we've got here are our two couches we've got one on the back here and we've got one on
the side what's great about these is it gives us a bunch of different seating options you can either
sit in the back like this or what I really love is you can crawl into the back and put
your feet up and really have like a nice little reading Nook I am able to sit very comfortably
just like this I could also lay long ways if I wanted so while she's able to do that I'm able
to sit on this couch and relax as well and it was important for us to have places for each of us to
be able to put our feet up and just really be able to sink into the couch and not have
to be crammed together and so having the couch back here as well as the side couch has really
been a great way for us to uh relax and then of course our dog has her bed down below here and
she sleeps down there and so it's perfect we each have our own little spot inside the cabin
so like in most tiny spaces you've got to have multiple purposes for different elements in
your space and our couch here needed to also come together to form the bed and so each one of these
cushions will eventually be put together and the bed extends out to right about here so this is
how we turn our couch into our bed first we take our cushion that we have here as a backrest move
it onto the back couch we take this cushion off as well and then as you'll see down here these boards
are the slats that form the foundation of the couch well they also come out and they will become
the slats for our bed as well place them sideways as you'll see we have supports on either side
and then we take one last slat here and we place it up here on this beam and then it stems over
to the cooler so like I said multiple purposes it's really really great and then we're able to
grab our last cushion place it down there and it becomes a twin sized bed as you can see one
person fits really really well in here now with two it definitely gets a little tighter I love
that you made both of our sleeping areas have arm room so even though it may look a little
crammed we're both side sleepers so it works perfectly now we also knew that we were going
to need storage for clothes and other knickknacks while we're in bed and I wanted to find a system
that would be lightweight and so I found these net baskets that you just screw right onto the
walls and it allows you to put your clothes in there or maybe your phone or other things and so
we've got them on either side of the cabin as well I've got mine over here over here we've got our
carbon monoxide detector and our remote control for the diesel heater so we're actually able to
turn up or down or turn off the heater right here inside the cabin and it is just so nice [Music]
photos from our previous adventures and we're just going to keep adding them on
up at our family cabin there's just always been this photo wall and it just shows all
the adventures that have been had up at the cabin and so I thought in here we would do
the same thing just showing all of the amazing memories that we've made outside either at this
cabin other cabins or just around the world it's just so cool to be able to relive those memories
School area it pulls up like this and what you do is we have two pieces of wood right
here and underneath here you simply slide this underneath holds it up like that make sure it's
kind of more in the middle area so that way it's not lopsided you take the other slot right here
and same deal you just kind of want to put it under evenly and voila you have your table
it's super nice for eating dinner we can both sit there also you can do some work there Journal draw
the beautiful view yeah play cards anything you want that thing is crucial now in the back I had
one other thing that I really wanted to make sure we had space for and that's what I call the garage
so behind this cushion here I have all of the little toys and tools that we need while out
in the woods so we've got a hatchet we've got a shovel we have our portable solar panels we've got
chairs we've got a hammock we've got a little saw and of course we've got my little guitar here and
as far as the electric goes in here we just use a solar generator it's a portable one and so we're
able to either recharge that at home in the car or we can use our portable solar panels and for
now that seems to really work well for us when we go out we usually get like three days off of one
charge and uh even during the day sometimes we'll put the panels out and top it off but it seems
to do the trick and so we are satisfied with that as you can see we have Cafe string lights hanging
all around the cabin [Music] I made sure to put two sets of fans in here one near the kitchen
and then one set back here by the bed so that we always have good air flow in here especially in
the summertime our kitchenette is pretty basic we just have a single burner stove but we have
all of the tools that we need we've got our coffee cups hanging up we've got cooking tools
here on a hook we've got this Pantry up here that has our coffee pot and breakfast things
and other snacks we have our water cups up here and then up above we've got plates bowls
Lids cutting board and our pots and pans as well as a paper towel roll all of this stuff
is designed to travel like this for the most part and it's really really great because the
plates don't fall and even if they do they're made out of aluminum and so they do not break
our wastebasket here and a little adjustment that I made to it is I have a little hook here that
allows it to come down on a hinge so that when you take the garbage out it's much easier than
trying to fit it between the countertop here of course we've got the propane for our camp stove
and then another essential bit we've got toilet paper sitting here and that is for Riley when
she uses the bathroom in the middle of the night the bathroom will sit right here and then she's
got access to toilet paper and a wastebasket and hand sanitizer all right in one space we
just use a cooler um it's secured with these hooks here as well and as of now this does really well
for us maybe someday in the future we'll get a refrigerator but for now a cooler works just
fine on the other side of the kitchen we've got more counter space Pantry space we have our water
jug which when we fill it up it just sits here and you can fill up your water as you can see nothing
fancy here just a good old-fashioned elastic cord to keep that thing from falling off up above we've
got even more Pantry space and then of course up top the real Essentials we've got our toilet paper
now whenever you're in a home you need extra supplies and so we created this closet and all
it is is a curtain it's not the prettiest curtain but it's a curtain and behind it
we keep all of the things that we need but don't need to be out for everyone to see
love the creativity of being able to design our space and then see it come to life out
on the road we use it to really get out and just enjoy this life that we've been given
so we have a baby girl on the way our family is growing and I think this travel cabin is going to
be a little too small for the three of us and so I think sometime down the line here we're
gonna have to build one just a little bit bigger to fit the entire family so there's going to be
a new cabin coming somewhat soon yeah thanks for watching this week's video if you'd like
to see our other video featuring this couple's A-frame cabin make sure that you check out the
link in the description and I will see you soon with another tiny or unique home tour foreign