Hi, I'm Jenna with Tiny house Giant Journey. We're here in Portland,
Oregon at Anitas house, the Lilypad built by small home Oregon.
Let's go take a look.
This is Anita. This is her tiny house. I'm really excited,
this is the Lilypad it is already one of the coolest tiny houses.
What's the size of the dimensions? This is um,
a 24 foot irony goal trailer and it is eight foot,
six inches wide. And it is almost at legal limit at 13 feet 5 inches.
On the outside the height.
And then the eight and a half is that's it's built out over the wheel wells.
Yes, yes. So at the ground level, we're at about 179 square feet,
but with the two lofts it's about 248. It's actually got five different spaces.
It has, um, of course the galley kitchen, bathroom, sleeping area,
sitting loft as well as the private office because I work from home. Well,
there's so much to talk about,
but why don't we just start here and talk about the kitchen first? Great.
So we have, um, about an eight foot countertop,
plenty of space. Um, we do have a Dickinson.
This is a sailboat type of heat. It's woodstove, it's a wood stove.
Oh, okay. I didn't realize that they made wood
stoves by Dickinson as well. Yes. A lot of the tiny houses have the propane.
I actually went with the wood burning stove because of the, um,
the goal to actually create, uh, the home to be off grid as well as on grid.
The thing that I loved about it is because it's wall-mounted. Um,
a lot of the small cast iron stoves of course require um, floor space.
So, um, that's why I was pretty excitable this one and it does heat well.
We do have the copper behind the heat stove as well on the counter copper,
um, small sink. And then underneath here we have um,
a sailboat type stove, two burner stove. That for you. Thank you.
It is the Rigo 4,000. And um,
the reason I selected it is because it uses denatured alcohol,
which is a renewable resource, um, for the fuel.
And then let's see,
if you've not seen these before, to have these, um,
Bunsen burner type canisters and you just fill them up with alcohol.
so the, the actual whole design of the house, the, um,
the vision was to be super earth-friendly in eco.
So it is built for off-grid as well as on grid. So I do have the um,
RV water hose hookup as well as onshore power. But then my solar system,
you'd flip the switch and then you're on solar.
I have rainwater catchment system, um, composting toilet
all kinds of really fun eco features. So if I were actually off grid
I have a 35 gallon gravity fed freshwater tank that's upstairs in the loft.
Um, that's why this is here.
So the water would actually just be gravity fed down and then it'd be all set
So that'd be your sink right there. Yeah, yeah
for my fresh water source. So yeah. So you have lots of options here.
And this is ran with a pump and a tank right now? Or how is that? Right now
It's actually, I'm hooked up on grid. Okay. But it can be,
I have a 55 gallon rain barrel outside.
It goes through a small pump and it's filtered before it comes into the house
for doing dishes and bathing and everything.
So a really nice feature that the builder actually came up with.
We found a large piece of butcher block from the rebuilding center.
And this is my little slide out table for,
for dining or for tea for two.
Then you have these let's set it up. This is nice.
Yeah. And then when you want everything to just go away, there you go.
So this is the tiny bathroom.
The actual space of the bathroom was planned around this little RV tub.
Um, it is a little 40 inch tub. and I do actually fit in it,
which is quite nice even though it's small.
This beautiful little postal copper sink was the first thing that I ever kind of
purchased it as the first purchase for the tiny house. So it actually, um,
sort of set the tone for the copper accents throughout the house.
It was pretty exciting when you actually buy the first thing you guys probably
know the very first item that you get for your home,
so it was a little copper sink. Um,
and then I believe you guys have the famous nature's head as well,
the composting toilet.
And I thought this was a pretty nice solution, um,
with the little baskets that pull in and out because it keeps all of your, um,
products, of course private. But then there's a lot of space here.
I do use baskets, um, for storage as well. Behind here.
This is where the on demand hot water
heater is. This is kind of disguised. Is it propane? It is propane,
yes. It's actually the only thing with the house that is propane fueled,
which was required, you know, if you're trying to do off grid. Right. Um,
let's see. We did use some, um,
about 30% of the materials were from the rebuilding center,
which is here in Portland, which has salvage materials, all the doors,
the cabinets, these sorts of things were from salvaged materials,
which is great. And then you have a pocket door here. Yes. Yes.
So I'd love to show you that it actually has a surprise
more of the little Moroccan or Nate's style going on.
It's kind of funny because my friends laugh now cause you'll see there's more
and there's just going to continue to be more and more. Yeah. Yeah.
So I split the difference. We do have on the tall wall,
it's approximately 11 feet tall. Um,
so it allowed me to have a five foot two office as well as the sitting loft
five foot four. Wow.
Well it's nice and cozy and you do build a tiny house for you.
So I understand why if you're five foot you
can make a five foot two office totally make it work. Yup.
And there's actually a lot of space in here. I have, um,
a Florida ceiling closet back here. Um,
so I could kind of this,
so right back here is where all the hanging clothes over,
it's about two feet deep and it is the whole width of the house, which is what,
seven, seven feet interior in between.
So we have the dresser and we have the hanging clothes.
I do have my shoes in a little rack that's right in between.
So it's pretty luxurious. I have um, a couple of coats out here.
Um, but certainly a lot of space, a lot of storage space for,
for all the accoutrements.
So we'll go right up to the sleeping loft. The ceiling height
in the sleeping loft is about four feet, three inches.
It is designed so that you just sort of kneel in, lay down
and then when you come out you're able to stand up.
fully from the first step. This is a full size bed, super cozy.
Um, I've got plenty of room. I share the space with two felines,
Harley. He's black and Sage is a Stripe. Tabby kitty. Great.
Um, some features of the sleeping loft. Is there storage bins, um,
on both sides.
And I have a beautiful skylight for stargazing and I watch birds and things like
that's awesome. Do you cover the skylight or
do you just wake up with the sun. I do I actually have this pretty amazing
curtain to show you and it's a great opportunity to talk about the fabric.
So we do have Mylar on one side,
so it of course in summertime because we are so close to the skylight that I can
do that. I just have tension rods. But um, the fabric, my dear friend, um,
Sila brought this fabric back from India, from her village in India.
So I'm very sentimental about all of the curtains in the fabric.
Those stairs are pretty easy to climb. Wow.
So this is the sitting loft. If you, um, go ahead, take a seat.
This is what I call a Moroccan floor couch. Wow. Yeah,
I can stand up in this loft. That's amazing. Yes.
The tall wall is about five foot four inches and the idea was to really maximize
the low side and have that Moroccan floor couch for,
for guests. Um,
so we've comfortably sat about five or six people up here.
It's a beautiful space for reading meditation, very peaceful.
It's really an interesting idea that you have basically an elevated living room.
Yes. You know, so you changed your loft into a living room,
which I think is brilliant. And why has nobody ever thought of this before?
And it's really interesting because you do sit most of the time you're
in the living room, you know. That's exactly right.
Is that the idea behind it? That was the idea.
And it was really funny because the whole plan with the Moroccan floor couch and
tell people actually see it.
I was trying to describe it like the plan for utilizing this art kind of coming
down. Um, but when you see it, I think it makes sense.
My choice for installation was a soy-based um,
foams, spray insulation. It had no VOC. Yes,
I'm super environmentally friendly and the drywall was actually required,
um, in addition to the insulation as a fire barrier. Um,
it is ultra light drywall. The builder was super savvy about that and it,
it is a super ultra light weight, um, drywall.
And we did select the exterior shingles for lightweight as well.
All of the lights and the light fixtures, light bumps are all led, so very,
very energy friendly. Eco friendly requires very little energy.
When I'm on solar,
my inspiration came from I'm really considering lifestyle and going,
um, eco-friendly, having a lighter footprint on the earth.
There's a favorite quote that I have from Gandhi in a gentle way.
You can shake the world and um, I believe that to be true,
you can really think globally but then act locally and just taking that kind of
self responsibility in terms of how,
how you choose to live and how you choose to impact.
Just in a few weeks I'll be doing a certification for therapeutic animal massage
and doing all nature pathic animal services. So those, that's, yeah,
I've spent about 15 years working with animals and conservation and care all
over the country.
So the tiny is actually a huge part of that plan to um,
sort of minimize my impact on there and then give me greater freedom and
flexibility to pursue those kinds of dreams of working with animals.
Professionally. It's a dream come true when you, um,
you actually visualize something, you create it. Um,
Linda Menard of niche consulting did the concept drawings with me. Um,
so from that point when you actually see it being built and the walls going up
and then, um, of course when it's all decorated,
it's just you take a deep breath and it's, it's a realization of a dream.
All right,
This is the back end of your tiny house and you've got to tell me a little
bit about this system, how it works. Oh, sure.
So it is a food grade 55 gallon rain barrel.
Um,
and what I have is a fantastic 24 foot gutter and of course I have that curved
roof. Um, so the rain just comes, it goes down, it filters through,
goes into, um,
the rain barrel and I do have a rain catchment pump system. Um,
it's not hooked up right now. Um, but it will be in a couple of weeks.
So I'm excited about that.
The rain catchment system actually has a hose that attaches to the spigot and
then we go right around the back of the house and it will have a filtration
system here.
So the rainwater is filtered before it enters into the house through the pump
and then it will go right in where the RV water hose is right now,
this is actually called the tower garden.
It is a vertical aeroponic um, gardening system.
The reason why I was so excited about it and attracted to it is it actually uses
90% less water than traditional gardening using soil.
What happens is their water is kept in the reservoir and it's pumped up over the
roots with the minerals solution and um,
it's just air and the minerals in the water.
This unit right here holds 20 different plants and it's only got a 2.5 square
foot footprint. So it's amazing for tiny spaces.
I did have this inside in the office in the study that we were just in,
in the winter time
I had four led grow lights and um, the,
the pump is only 20 Watts,
so the whole system was only a hundred Watts for the whole gross system.
So I was able to do all of my herbs and lettuce during the winter and then just
relocated outside of course for natural sunlight. Okay.
So this is um,
a customized elevated solar rack for the solar array.
This was designed by small home Oregon. Um,
due to the orientation of the tiny house, we needed to put the solar panels.
south-facing,
so I have four polycrystalline solar panels for 940 watt system inside this area
in the bump out as well as in the interior.
In the closet I have eight AGM batteries.
So a pretty robust battery system for the array and interior also holds the
charge controller and the inverter and the other equipment.
And I do have an on off switch so that I can switch between being on grid or
off grid anytime. Like, today's a beautiful day for solar.
I just can tell that you've put a lot of thought into the design and especially
all the interior little aspects of it, the Moroccan feel. Thank you.
Congratulations. Beautiful home. And thank you so much for letting us tour it.
Oh, we appreciate it. Yes. Okay, guys, until time.
See you later.
I can't exactly have, um, big dance parties, but it's, it's, it's always,
That was a joke.