hi there welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes in today's
video we're traveling to a tiny house community in Tennessee to take a tour of Carmen and
Bill's beautifully crafted tiny home this tiny home is extremely unique and while I
don't want to give everything away make sure that you stay tuned to hear the details on
the kitchen countertops and the arched roof and if you're like me and you enjoy tours
of unique homes make sure that you subscribe to this Channel and hit that notification
Bell so that you know every single time we publish a new video something [Music] yeah
[Music] [Applause] so we went from our home in Florida which was approximately 5 000 square
feet to this 400 square foot tiny house we decided to downsize because we wanted more
freedom in our lives and not have all the extra work to do just to maintain a big house
that you just accumulate so much when you have a big house over 21 years and so when
we decided to downsize we didn't really realize how much work it was going to be we just feel
like a huge burden has come off of our backs and that we're ready to enjoy life a lot more
I did not want to look at other homes and copied that so the inspiration really came
from just having unique features
our home when we first designed it and presented it it was very very custom [Applause] we had
the design done but Rob he is a true artist his art is very much displayed in this home
everything he's done enhanced the house [Music] I'm able to express myself in every feeling
that I have just I poured into it I mean when I pick up a board I look at the grain it's
all important to me and most people don't even see it but I see those details in it
they mean something to me I don't have a lot of opportunities to express myself this much
in a tiny world pretty Majestic tiny isn't it
[Music]
very excited to be here in our new tiny house it was moved up here only three days ago to
what they call the mountain
[Music] we're basically living off grid right now they still have to get the electricity
in right now we're using a generator and we're hoping within two months everything will be
in the septic the electric and we're going to start Landscaping putting in our back deck
this is a 10 by 40 tiny house it is about 25 000 pounds the house is about 14 feet tall
we have about 16 windows in it we wanted the big windows for the views because we have
beautiful views up here we decided to go with a metal roof just because of the longevity
and also we like the looks of the metal roof we wanted to go with the LP siding we decided
to do a little bit of a angle at the back we just like the two colors that went together
the rear door will be the main entrance to the house that door enters into a mud room
[Music]
one of the features that we wanted were some plant shelves right now we have artificial
plants because we're going into the winter season my wife comes up with these awesome
ideas as far as decorating the house
so this is on the back side of our tiny house and this is our air conditioner and this basically
runs too many slits that are inside the house and we decided with the size of the house
10 by 40 that we needed too many switch so that's what we went with now I'm going to
take you inside and my wonderful wife Carmen will show you the inside of the house
so Jenna produced a video back in 2018 what I hate about tiny homes and this is probably
one of the things that I most used from that video she said that she didn't like when you
entered the house you didn't you went right into the living room this whole mud room area
was created because of that idea so we have a separate mud room this place will get muddy
I don't care we wipe our feet we put our shoes down in here we hang up all our stuff here
and it's been great as we continue down the mud room we also have part of it is the utility
room and we have a stackable washer and dryer it is the splendide they're made mostly for
RVs but they are wonderful for tiny homes and then right across from us this is the
downstairs bathroom one of the things we fight about is the bathroom who gets the first who
gets to take their shower first in a tiny space you really can't share the bathroom
so that was one of my important things the value of two different bathrooms is to stay
married
we have this built here for our cats litter robot so this is the perfect dimensions for
that this is going to be an area for our hamper which is already in here and this is not going
to be a closet for clothes it's going to be just all towels Linens and the very top one
is going to be cleaning supplies [Music] toilets or regular toilets we have City water sewer
and Electric in this mountain area and so we didn't have to go with the compost toilet
[Music] right over here we have an Ikea sink I call it the skinny sink complete shower
on the side
okay so now we're going to head up to the man cave [Music]
so this area is in the very rear of the home and we're calling this area the man cave Bill
loves football and we have a large screen TV which we still have to get out of storage
and we're going to put it right there this is to me a very cozy TV area I have a lot
of different pillows and stuff it also will be a spare bedroom for guests all right let's
head downstairs [Music]
some of the stuff we wanted to accomplish was space I wanted at least always five feet
once you get into here of course this Narrows down but yeah I wanted it to have the minimum
of five feet and some areas are even larger I love our kitchen it's a U-shaped kitchen
which is very functional for cooking the dishwasher was a must it's only a half dishwasher this
is a smaller sink but it's very deep I didn't want to have this all being sink [Music]
and dishes on it and drying here the water will trickle down down into the sink we also
have some room in here we could put dishes here foreign this also lifts up we could use
this as extra area for prep work
this was also something else that I had from the very beginning was this shelf it was like
a floating shelf a lot of this glassware you could see the Sun or the light come through
and that was very important we limited the amount of drawers in the cabinets I did that
just because I like baskets I really love baskets and I wanted a few areas that would
be able to be for our knives and spoons and forks
we wanted to have a gas range we do not have an oven in this home we are planning on building
an outside deck and the oven is going to go outside Bill does the my dirty the cooking
now when he retired from work I retired from cooking and he cooks very good so I enjoyed
him doing all the cooking so Rob approached me about this I designed he had he said he
had a vision about this and he said Carmen I have an idea for your range hood and fan
and he said I'm going to do it beautifully he gave me just a little bit of an idea I
had already said that I wanted wine holders but I was thinking of them as being maybe
a vertical and he said no just give me the liberty and the artistic freedom and I will
do it and I said go for it so he came up with this it's beautiful we didn't know if we were
going to go all brown or if we were going to go all natural and then all of a sudden
one day he says we'll just go two tones and that's what we did we've done that all throughout
as you can see I think it's lovely
and then he came up with this two we had a microwave oven you know microwave ovens aren't
always the most beautiful thing around so he created this to to hide the microwave oven
this is part of Rob's magic he designed this whole inlay in here this is the Jordan River
and it flows into the Dead Sea and there's a little island that he put in here and then
down in here it's very hard to see but they are there we have 12 Stones and that represents
the 12 Stones that were laid there during the crossing of the Jordan River into the
promised land this whole idea came from Rob I didn't even know what he's he said I had
a vision about this I really want to do it and I said go for it we're going to give you
free Liberty to do whatever you want to create with our kitchen and we've been really happy
about that when I first came up with this idea of having the arch I know that sometimes
people put collar beams you know especially in large homes and I thought of one one color
Beamer in the center let's do it as an arch and then it was Rob who had a vision and he
said Carmen we've got to have three of these it's going to be for architectural design
it's going to look wonderful and so we just said again go for it and we're very happy
we did so the Shelf was an idea so that when the Arches were created they would have a
place to land I thought well that would be also the perfect place to put in direct lighting
so all that was planned out so that we could have the lighting and at night time with this
on and the lights just kind of coming up it just gives it that nice little cozy feeling
and I love it [Music] now we're coming into the lounge area you could sit here maybe have
a glass of wine and just enjoy yourself this picture right here my parents bought it from
Cuba this is the Church of Carmen de la Soledad and my mom she named me after that church
I was born in Cuba and my first language was Spanish
[Music] so now we're walking into our den this was originally going to be our master
bedroom however the Loft above became our master bedroom my husband loved it up there
he thought it was like a tree house when we get older and we need to use the first floor
space for a master bedroom then we could go ahead and come down here if we need to for
right now this is going to be like a little Reading area a little additional space for
when family and people gather so this painting right here we we got it when um my husband
and I were dating my husband grew up part of his life in Honduras and it just reminded
him of his life in Honduras of course it's a Spanish style painting and we love it and
we've had it since you know it was one of our the first things we bought together one
of the unanticipated features that we were able to add to our tiny home is the basement
it's called a reverse Loft we're calling it The Basement because it's a cute name and
as most basements are it's very utilitarian so we have this exposed pipes and we have
our hot water heater here but it also has our yoga mat and it has my workout recumbent
bike and it has plenty of room for closet space
so I'm not in workout clothes but I can this is how I would view it if I was you know truly
working out
so these stairs right here they're Oak stairs and they left the arch opened and it kind
of continues with the arch theme and it leads up to our bedroom as I walk up the stairs
we enter into the office area and I have a beautiful view of the front this is absolutely
the most beautiful view I've had in any office in my life
this office has the mini split the second mini split in it and it keeps me very nice
and toasty if it's cold as we walk on we have the bathroom area in here it's a full bathroom
[Music]
one of the things I'd like to point out about this bathroom is that I had the closet here
be a long closet this is a place that we could put the brooms and everything that's tall
there's always a problem when you live tiny sometimes that you don't have a place to put
your brooms and your vacuum cleaner so this has this area in here so now let's head to
the bedroom
[Music] it has a king-size bed in it plenty of space way more than a lot of Lofts have
we also have another Closet in this space right here and then of course behind us we
get to see the Arches we get to see below and we get to see the lighting and it's just
it's just a wonderful little area we have everything that we really desired and wanted
in this home foreign
[Music] thanks for watching this week's video I hope you guys enjoyed it if you'd like to
see more tours of tiny homes in this tiny house Community or an overall tour of the
tiny house Community itself make sure that you check out our links in the description
[Music]