So I've shot and produced a lot of tiny tours. In fact,
I'm coming up on my hundredth tour,
but I came across a story recently that was unlike any tiny house tour I've ever
done before.
The reason why this video is so unique is because the owner is actually
up-sizing into this space. So before building his own tiny house,
Jeremy was backpacking around South America or living out of a custom built
truck camper that he couldn't even stand in. As you can imagine,
when he finally decided to settle down and build a tiny house,
it felt quite luxurious to him.
This house is absolutely gorgeous,
but with a bunch of different woods that he was either able to resource or
recycle.
So let's check out this tiny house tour.
Hi, I'm Jeremy and this is my tiny house.
I built this tiny house three years ago now and have been living here in Oregon
for the last two and a half years.
I heard about the tiny house movement from friends who are just into alternative
building styles. I studied architecture in school.
I am fortunate enough to be able to work with seven or eight other artists and
furniture makers in a creative space here in Portland.
We all kind of bounce ideas off of each other and have access to really awesome
woodworking equipment. Combination of all those things.
My interest in small spaces and desire to travel often led me to build a home
that could go down the road.
I transitioned it to living in this tiny house from living out of a backpack in
South America for almost three months. Prior to that,
I was living out of a camper shell that I built on the back of my pickup truck.
For now it's just used for storage,
but there's a bad platform across the top and then storage below.
I went from being on the move with not that many material possessions to living
in this 145 square foot house. That feels pretty big sometimes.
I really upsized
welcome to the inside of my tiny house.
These two round windows were kind of thrown into the design sort of last minute.
Wasn't sure what my parking situation was going to be.
At the time and I wanted to bring in a lot of light on both sides of the house.
Decided to put two large Brown windows in here.
Also keep the design pretty symmetrical.
My source of inspiration for this roof came from building skate parks.
The roof of the house is standing seam copper,
copper's very durable and long lasting roof and it's also very malleable,
so capable of being shaped to the compound curve that have here.
This stove is made by a company called shipmate and it is designed for sailboats
and small spaces.
It's cast iron and it has this cooktop surface here,
so heats up the space well, it's great in the wintertime.
This is my refrigerator.
It is dual zone meaning this parts of freezer and this part is the refrigerator.
I didn't want to be bumping into handles in such a tight space,
pretty easy to just drill out these holes and they make pretty good door poles.
Stainless steel is easy to clean and I also liked the industrial sort of feel of
stainless.
I had a local metal fabrication shop make this countertop piece for me.
They were able to laser cut out holes for my two burner cooktop and my sink.
This section here is drop in butcher block countertop zone.
This was all scrap material from woodshop these lights are led.
Puck lights.
I decided to go with one inch by two inch steel framing members for the loft,
mainly to create a little more head room,
so rather than using a piece of four inch tall wood framing was able to create a
little more space in the kitchen.
This pocket door is made entirely out of salvage materials.
I salvaged it from a house in California that had partially burned to the
ground.
Pulled these Redwood boards off of the wall and stripped the paint off of them,
cleaned them up, turned them into this sliding door for the bathroom.
This is the bathroom.
This is a nature's head composting toilet.
This window has the frosted glass or privacy glass.
This is the shower bathtub based in Fort worth as a livestock watering tank.
I did drill out the drain straight through the floor and it is connected to gray
water system outside the shower curtain rod.
I also found at a salvage materials yard, made a jig for it,
clamped it up in this circle shape and welded it closed then and hung this shower
curtain from it.
This staircase was really fun and also challenging to design.
The top two stairs are capable of being removed.
A stool or seat for somebody here is storage for clean clothing and then this
part is dirty laundry basket.
I do laundry in my Landlord's House.
Happy to have me do laundry whenever it's a part of our living agreement.
So all the clothing storage is here. My seasonal clothing,
I keep outside, have a little storage unit outside.
I just don't have a lot of clothes.
I'm used to living on the road or out of backpack.
This is a double size bed.
I wanted to keep some space on the side to be able to navigate in and out of
here and not have the entire loft be taken up by the bed.
This computer monitor is great for and I just want to relax and plug in the
laptop.
It swells here and I can also point it down that way and watch something from
down below too.
I have some paintings here that one of my friends painted and my grandmother
painted this series of the four seasons across from this loft.
I have a little shelf above the door.
It is just storage for camping gear,
extra skateboards, and some shoes.
This window in the loft was a fun project to try and wrap my head around.
It is a pivoting sash window and opens like that and then rotates 90 degrees
This is a table that I made with a friend of mine and it's made out of recycled
skateboards and it folds down against the wall and out of the way to create a
little more room.
This is a bench that is also convertible into a twin bed.
A friend of mine who owns an upholstery business made up this cushion for me.
Custom. She chose the fabric. I think it turned out really well.
It's pretty comfortable to both sleep on and to be used as a seat
So this is the front door of the house.
The house I grew up in had a set of French doors.
It gives me that feeling of being home.
I happened to find these doors for pretty cheap on Craigslist.
They were brand new.
I got a good deal on them and I really liked the color blue.
The siding is Cedar shingles something I just came across,
just people doing cool designs with shingles.
I got inspired to try and put somewhere in this build no better spot than
centered above the door.
My next building endeavor is a mobile sauna,
two of them and I'm building them with my friend Joey.
They can be operated together as one or individually.
Our idea with the mobile saunas is to host events.
We're trying not to limit ourselves to just Portland we're potentially going to be
traveling with the saunas to as far as Southern California or Colorado,
building a tiny house from scratch is a huge endeavor and reminding myself
throughout the process that the creative process of building the house is
something to enjoy,
even though it comes with its headaches and working backwards and frustrations
along the way. Learned a lot still learning.
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