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in today's video we're meeting a young couple who built a teeny tiny A-frame cabin in less
than seven days for just twenty five hundred dollars they're going to take us on a tour
of their A-frame explain how they built it and why it was important for them to
have an off-grid escape [Music] and make sure that you stay tuned because the next
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hi I'm Jack and I'm Riley and we built two tiny cabins here in Minnesota
this is our tiny A-frame cabin
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Riley and I got married about a year ago and we met in California when the pandemic hit we
both lost our jobs and so living in a city like Los Angeles became just too expensive
for us we decided that we were going to move back to my home state of Minnesota
I've always been a cabin lover in fact our family has had a cabin that was built in 1936 and it's
been in our family ever since I always knew that I wanted to build a cabin of my own but
living in Los Angeles I didn't own land and I had no means to really do that when we decided
to move back here to Minnesota I knew that that was my opportunity to really get started within
days of moving here I got right to work on this cabin I just remember he would get up at like
five in the morning come down here and start building and wouldn't be done until like 9 00
pm he was just working away and it probably took about seven whole days for him to fully complete
so I'd never built anything before this I was brand new and so with that I knew that I needed
plans in order to construct this and that really really helped me to be able to tackle something
like this being brand new to Construction I didn't fully calculate how much this cost but it was well
under 2500 a lot of cheap materials went into this and that's what made the cost stay relatively low
so we built this cabin about a year ago and this property that we were on is actually my
parents property it's the property that I grew up on and so I'm super familiar with
these Woods I have a deep connection with them and it's been really fun to get to
come back and build this cabin here and kind of Forge new memories here with my
wife thankfully since this is just kind of a retreat space for us we didn't have to fit all
of the things that you would need to live it's really just made for coming down and
spending a couple of days and that helped us out a lot as well and saved a lot of space foreign
let's start with the dimensions of the cabin this is a tiny A-frame it is eight by ten now normally
when you're talking about structures that have normal vertical walls that creates a lot more
space but the A-frame actually maintains a much tinier feeling than a normal 80 square
foot building would a lot of the things that I use for this cabin were either bought very
cheap or for free so this door I got for about I think it was 35 bucks you can see it has a
little Dent there it's a little worse for wear it gives it character exactly normally doors
are made to go inside the cabin so when you open it it opens to the inside but that would
take up a lot of space so what I did with this door is I made it open out so if you look above
here we've got our deer antler rack that kind of marks the front of the cabin this is my parents
land and we've always called it deer horn Forest there's tons of deer here and there's tons of
antler sheds that you find and so we had to have some deer antlers marking the front of the cabin
as you can see on this side we've got our stove pipe coming out of the cabin I love it too because
there's just something about having a fire that makes a cabin really feel like a cabin it's
freezing during the winter months like negative degrees so it's really easy just to take a piece
of wood open the door and just throw it inside seeing the chimney with smoke pouring out of it
and sitting by the fire it not only heats up the place but it brings me like tremendous Joy [Music]
that boy right here okay what is this right so this
it's okay it but it has a nice little toilet seat cut out right here now this isn't for everybody
and this took some time to get used to this but I finally got there and what you do is you stick
a bag inside the toilet like a garbage bag a garbage bag it's really simple and you just sit
on it and you know for now uh it works extremely well for us and it it's all you need honestly yeah
love the bucket all right guys let's take a look at the interior of the cabin
when I built this I had a couple things that were a priority number
one I wanted to be able to sleep down here so bed was imperative number two
I wanted to have a place to actually hang out and relax so a couch was another need
of mine and number three I needed to have heat for the winter time
so let's talk about the electricity down here as you can see we've got these Cafe
lights now this cabin is completely off grid which means we don't have power routed down
here I don't even use solar because this is a place we just come to for a day or two I use
USB rechargeable battery packs so if you look over here I've got this battery pack and if I
click this button it tells me how much battery life we have left so we're at about half right
now and that has a USB output which Powers our light as well as your phone it's got a little
Splitter on it and it works really well for us because these are LEDs that battery pack
will last for hours and hours and hours and if it's getting a little low like it is right now
I just take it with me take it home recharge it bring it back and we're good to go for another
few days for sure the width of this thing is perfect for a bed and so I thought having
the bed here where you can lay down and look out the window down into the forest I thought
that was just perfect the benefit of having a beautiful view right there from the bedside
now this is a twin sized bed it is small we're in a tiny cabin we got a tiny bed we both fit in
there what makes beds feel really small is when they're really crammed in next to walls and so
having this open space here where I can like lean out that helps me to feel like it's bigger than a
twin next to the bed I wanted to make sure that we had you know places to set coffee cups and phones
and other things so I put in this shelf it's also got a reading light here which is really
great it works on this switch right here on this side of the bed I made sure to build a bookshelf
up above the window here we've just got you know some Decor we've got some fake plants because this
is Minnesota and in the winter time it gets way too cold down here to be able to have real plants
up on the Shelf we've got some water glasses as well as a whiskey glass there because I'm a
whiskey lover and this is just perfect Ambiance for sipping a glass of whiskey directly above
the bed we have this ceiling fan and all that that is is a rechargeable battery operated fan
it's usually used for camping and stuff like that and what I did was I just attached it on
hooks up there to the ceiling in the summertime that thing is so crucial to get some good air
flow in here and it really did the trick we just got out of Summer our first summer with
this cabin and even on the really hot days it was bearable because of that ceiling fan
all right below the bed we have Ellie's bed she's a little diva she loves being on camera
I knew that we needed a spot for Ellie so I built the bed a little bit higher so that we would have
space for her dog bed and she wouldn't feel too crammed in or claustrophobic down there aside
from the dog bed we've got other things stored down here I've Got My Guitar ukulele all right
let's talk about the wood stove this is a winter well stove they're really really great Camp wood
stoves and what I love about this is you've got the glass side here so you can see the fire like
you're looking at a fireplace as well as the front and it just creates an amazing ambiance
foreign this is a tiny space so when you get that thing roaring it'll actually roast you out of here
so it's really really great for heating up the place fast I placed it on top of this platform
that I built just I don't know just to have it a little bit higher so when you're sitting on the
couch like this it's more at eye level and also that platform allows us to store other things
like fire making tools and other stuff so it has a dual purpose like everything inside here you
want it to have multiple purposes it keeps the fire more at eye level and it gave us some extra
storage the kitchen over here is very very simple we simply have a single burner propane stove I've
had a lot of people ask me why I use a propane stove if we have a wood stove and the answer is
just that it's easier cooking on a wood stove is very doable but in the summertime it's going to be
too hot and you can't really control the heat like you can on a propane stove and so I wanted to make
sure that we had the ability to cook or to make coffee and to do so easily in all four seasons
foreign I also made this tiny little countertop that is at an angle here that allows you to just
like you know set your coffee cup when you're making coffee or any little food items that you
need um and so that comes in handy on this side we keep our silverware coffee filters we've got a
candle that I'll also bring out and set here and light and down below we have this amazing tiny
cutting board look at this thing it's so small and it's perfect for our cabin and so when that's not
in use I simply tuck it back in there and put our candle there for storage on the wall here we just
have one uh pan for cooking we've got one spatula it's all we really need up above is where I keep
our coffee so I keep our coffee in this jar and then down below are some more of just the nuts and
bolts of the cabin we keep our propane tank down here got scissors and other tools a dustpan and a
little broom and then I keep these little Growlers here with water that's the easiest way to bring
water down right now someday I'd love to have a little uh well down here that we can pump but for
now we just haul in our water and it works well for us so above the door here is our food pantry
um I keep our coffee pot up here um I also keep whiskey up here uh we've got our cooking
oil and then other snacks are just tucked behind there as well as a candle and other little tools
we don't live out of this cabin we just come down here to spend a night or a few nights
and so we don't need a ton of space for food generally speaking food fits up there very nicely
on this side of the door we just have like a hook for your jacket um other Decor as well as
some of our safety features we've got a carbon monoxide detector we have a thermometer in here
it's pretty chilly in here right now and then behind the couch we have a fire extinguisher
just to make sure we've got everything we need if you know things got a little out of control
down here all right here's the couch it's a very simple couch it's just a little love seat I put
this uh old comforter sheet over it because the original color of it is this like blue color and
it didn't really fit well with the Ambiance and the vibe we wanted down here I got this
thing for free and so Beggars can't be choosers it certainly serves its purpose well it's very
comfortable you can either sit here and look at the fire or especially in the summer months
you can Lounge like this and be able to look outside at the beautiful view
that is the interior of the cabin it's simple but as you can see it really has everything
that we need and uh it's pretty amazing how much you can fit into a small space like that
a lot of people have asked why we built such a small cabin and honestly building small was just
the necessity of not having much money to spend on building a cabin I knew we needed a space where we
could really get away and and sort of just soak in nature and a space away from home it feels
very therapeutic it kind of helps you to pause and reflect so that's what it's it's been like for me
we just found out a few months ago that we are pregnant and our daughter is on the way and what's
going to be really fun is integrating our daughter into our tiny cabins and seeing how she likes them
he wants to build a little mini cabin for her I do really sweet yeah yeah there's always different
ideas for builds yeah um so yeah there's more things cooking that's for sure thanks for watching
this week's episode make sure that you tune back in soon for episode 2 which features this
couple's teeny tiny travel cabin on Wheels which they built for even less money and in less time
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