hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and unique homes if
you're involved in the tiny house movement you may remember this viral story from a few years back
where one owner's tiny home was stolen well today we're traveling to the pacific northwest to meet
that owner and take a tour of his second improved tiny home and learn some of his tips and tricks
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i post a new video alright guys let's take a tour
hi i'm lawrence and this is my tiny house
i started out camping at a little teardrop camper i had inspiration from a friend of
mine who had built his first tiny house i just made the jump one day sold my teardrop camper
and bought the micro tiny house and that was my tiny house before this one
so i'm fortunate now to say i have had two tiny houses
the micro tiny house that i had initially kind of was like my weekend getaway
i decided i wanted a change and come out to washington unfortunately had a terrible snowstorm
come through while i was driving the tiny house and i got stuck in a town called hermiston oregon
i was stranded at a gas station left it there with the permission of the owners and unfortunately
the tiny house was stolen talk about devastating i mean my whole world was in there
a couple of months later we were able to recover it and repair it bought the property here ended up
staying in the micro tiny house on the property for about six months before i purchased this
tiny house now i have a security system i have cameras that i monitor i use a wheel boot not to
mention the tiny house is actually chained into the ground now so good luck this time
so i've got two lime rinders two full-sized dogs normally it's not a problem if you don't
mind an 80-pound dog running over your lap i love them they're my babies so they can do
whatever they basically run the roost chair i am in a relationship 23 years with my partner jason
he does not live with me full time the plan down the road is have two tiny houses one for
me one for him it's what works for us might not work for everybody but it works for me
as far as the property goes i have .6 acres in the pacific northwest
there is septic that's already here on the property i had to go through and put
the power in myself i actually am saving up to put a well in but in the meantime
i actually use a rainwater catchment system and when that doesn't work then i'm fortunate
enough to have neighbors that allow me to tap into their water and fill my water
tanks the tiny house was unfinished and i bought it from an individual and i got it
for 17 000. since then i put in i would say 15 000 or so the property itself was 49.5
i am fortunate to say i have eight more months to go and my tiny house and land will be paid off
in three years time it wasn't an easy feat i have certainly spent a lot of hard work
and time and money getting there but i'm going to be debt free this time next year
this tiny house is 28 feet long and eight foot wide and 13 and a half feet tall and if
you include both the lofts that's about 354 square feet i bought this tiny house and it
was kind of a shell i had to do a lot of work on the inside and some exterior work i had to
do some touch-up painting it did come in this original blue color that you see in white trim
i did paint the door red it's been said that if you paint your door red your house is paid off
basically you own it i'm not quite there yet but i will be there so i painted the door red
well welcome to my tiny house let me show you a little around
so you'll see here i've got my nice semi-comfortable couch it turns also
into a futon which is helpful when you have extra people staying over
this is my little end table as well that i have made out of wood and it's just beautiful of course
i love wood natural wood and so i've tried to incorporate as much as i can throughout the tiny
house initially the tiny house was painted white and white is great but it wasn't quite for me and
so what we did is we decided to paint it black on the interior and as you can see it is remarkable
but i will say this with black paint everything shows up so please be kind if you're watching
you'll find down here my library as well as i have my electric fireplace and then
it moves on over into my laundry machine and so this is a combo washer dryer you know there's
pros and cons with it you hear probably from many other people that they take a long time
it does about five to six hours for a load in this particular tiny house i
didn't have room for a separate dryer or even a stackable so this is what i've got
here's my television and i think it's a 40 inch television when i bought it i unfortunately did
not measure it like i should have i thought it was gonna fit here in the little nook and it didn't so
i did have to cut into the stairs slightly now it slides in just perfectly where it should be
i've been fortunate to have surround sound as well and it makes movie nights really fun
this is my dining nook i basically sanded the wood myself and put a little shellac on there
and it's kind of my dining room slash i don't know meditation center if you will and it's a
great place because i can sit out and look at the birds when they're out and doing their thing
moving back further you can see my little office area basically when i got the house it was kind
of a shell and i had to put in the kitchen as well as the bathroom and so i put in the cabinets
by myself believe it or not that was a feed all of its own but getting these inside was not
easy but but the rest of it was fairly easy it got it in leveled cutting the sink was a
little difficult i've kind of made some mistakes i decided to use some of the rocks that i have
down at lawson woods beach my little beach and so these are pebbles from the beach to
kind of cover up the fact that i didn't quite get it laid in properly but don't tell anyone
the backsplash i did myself it's not difficult as you might think this is actually a peel and
stick it's real stone the most difficult part however was the ends and i kind of cheated and
used the corks instead of finalizing it but you know what it works so i'm leaving it for now
in order to find great storage space for my cooking utensils and items i basically have
utilized the walls themselves so you can see i've got some of my copper pots here and pans
and then i mostly use dutch oven i love dutch oven cooking and cast iron in general and so these i
use primarily most often and they're just sitting on a little dollar out that i put in there myself
this is my full size range it's a propane range and oven i love to bake especially
in the winter time it's kind of a passion of mine or making stews or soups and so
i needed to have a nice kitchen and a full-size stove was essential for me and so this is my
whirlpool propane stove for some of my heating and air conditioning needs i've got this comfort
air and this works as a heater and dehumidifier as well as air conditioner over here this is my water
heater and it's just a four gallon water heater it is not on demand i previously had another
on-demand unit that was propane and unfortunately it was causing too many issues inside for me
it was causing the carbon monoxide detector to go off so i was fearful and decided i don't use
a whole lot of water anyways and that's what led me to go with the four gallon water heater
i have a great friend that's an artist back in las vegas and her name is mandy joy
and she is the one that's actually done most of these little paintings that you see around
of course she does full size paintings but being a tiny house i had to have tiny little paintings
as far as lighting goes being that we did go with black walls it was important to have a
lot of lights and so this is a little track system and i think they're halogen bulbs but so they work
well and i can also move them around if i don't have enough light you know one place or another i
can move it around which is really helpful too there are 13 windows in the tiny house total
in the summertime you've got tons of light that comes through and it's just magical so i love it
moving back here this turns into the bathroom you can see i'm not quite done
you're never really done with tiny houses it seems so i still have a
wall to put in here i'm going to put in a wall here as well as the other side
and i'll have a sliding barn door but in the meantime i have these privacy curtains up
a little bit further back you can see i have a flushing toilet and then my shower
i have created my own little shower curtain rod here and just gotta open it up so you can see
and i use a low low-flow shower head in order to save and conserve water here at the property
so the square footage of the bathroom is actually 50 square feet and in tiny
house terms that's a pretty big bathroom now i'm going to take you up to the loft
so here we are in the loft and the loft itself is 80 square feet i've managed to
put in an actual king-size bed and so i'm quite comfortable even with a couple of dogs with me
over on this side if you look over here this is my little ottoman where i keep some of my clothes
these are some of the clothes that i use regularly i would say these are my everyday clothes i also
have a couple other storage areas i have a little downstairs nook that i keep my hanging shirts my
other loft is part of storage for my other clothes that i'm not using my other seasonal clothes so in
between seasons i move things out where i need to use them i tend to sleep with the lower side which
probably doesn't make sense to a lot of people i like to watch tv in bed occasionally so just being
able to lay down and watch the television from bed is is quite comfortable that way
i actually had to put the railing in here in the loft as well as going down the stairs
in order to help me not fall hopefully that was the idea so some of the food storage that i use
are mason jars i use them for a variety of things like my beans my lentils some rice chickpeas
things of that nature so i'm actually using the ledge of the window for extra storage and that's
basically why i decided to use the mason jars there i just thought it'd look good and it works
all right well around the back side of the house i do rainwater collection
that collects rain from the roof it goes into this beautiful tank here
and in this tank it is processed as well as runs through the line and comes up to another
filter before it runs into the main house itself one of the many projects i have to do here on
the land is repairing this deck so as you can see she needs a little help but the bones are
good we just need to redo the deck so that'll be another project this summer but in the meantime
it gives me a great place to barbecue relax i can see the ocean it's just a great time this
is my garden it's kind of dormant right now it's winter here but we're getting ready for spring
all right well let me take you in the back and i've got a little campfire
out here and some beautiful views of the pacific northwest
this is called hammerslay inlet and it's on south puget sound in washington i have beach access i'm
lucky to have 50 feet of waterfront property my next phase of planning and development
is for my partner i'm probably going to build another tiny house or have one built
and that's kind of going to go in this area here a little sideways so he'll have views of the water
i don't know i might be jealous i might have to move into it instead but we'll see
i would say somebody who's looking to go tiny really needs to consider what they want out
of it and go for it don't hesitate because if you hesitate it's never going to happen
just do it take the plunge don't be afraid and do it it changed my life
first of all i didn't think i was ever going to own a house and to be debt-free in such a short
time i'm 45 i'm going to be debt-free before i'm 46 years old i do think that i'll always
live tiny this was my forever house getting this and i plan on staying here for as long as i can
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