hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of unique and tiny homes i've
been doing this for a long time and one of the most common questions that i get on my website
or in the youtube comments is why can't i just turn my backyard shed into a tiny home well i
finally found the perfect video answer to that question in today's tiny tour we're going to meet
a family who converted their backyard shed into a gorgeous tiny home that they now live in full time
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now let's jump right in and meet the family who converted their backyard shed into a tiny home
hi i'm katie and i'm michael and this is our tiny house
before we lived in the tiny house we actually were renting but we just wanted something that was ours
this building was already here it was a storage shed
we ended up cleaning everything out and it was a blank slate
i've had a little building construction history behind me
but far it's actually building something that's structurally livable this is my first
we've did about probably 90 percent of the work we did have a little assistance with
a local contractor that came in and put up the interior walls once the framing was already done
we're both on the same page when it comes to reclaiming stuff and using the material that
we have on hand we decided to take the walls off an old barn out in the pasture
and actually use it as our ceiling there's also
an old beam that was in the pasture and we used that in the kitchen to make it a vaulted ceiling
since we already had the structure just the building itself and the interior stuff
cost us around sixteen thousand it took us nine months from start to finish
we are about to start remodeling our forever home it's about 50 feet away
from the tiny house and once we're in the big house we plan to put the tiny house on airbnb
it was an investment that ultimately it could be a sustainable income for our future i did
go ahead and pay to have a full septic system put in but it also ties into our big house so
it was kind of one of those deals i'll just go ahead and have it done that way when we we
get started and have that house done that's one less thing that we have to worry about
i grew up in the agriculture industry so that's kind of how we got started around here with the
chickens and the pigs and the cows i think it's a big importance to instill that into
our girls for them to realize how people get their food and where it actually comes from
it's not really truly from a grocery store it's a lifestyle that we both really enjoy
and there's a lot of life lessons that can be learned being out on the farm but this is honestly
like the life you live in a tiny house but we have all this land you know the girls can go outside
and play and i really enjoy i think we we have the jackpot in our location and where we're at
we added this extra porch on just to give us a little bit more space we like to be outside so
it gives us a little little extra room to be outside and also is enclosed with this railing
around it we got this little gate to help control our little one so she don't just take off running
so this is the porch most of our storage for our shoes we leave outside we added a screen
door incorporate the inside to the outside up here on the ceiling we salvaged all this old tin
from some of the barns around here we attached it up there to the top for decorative purposes
the front door was actually on the back side of the building we reframed the front
door on this side so we could have more of a view of the road and also of the driveway
we do have these christmas lights up around the front of the house we put them up there around
christmas but the wife liked them so much he wants to leave him up there full time so we usually turn
the lights on at night and the whole front of the house is lit up we did have to add this
extra window there was no windows on this side of the house so we cut it out and we put in an extra
window that's in front of the sink you can kind of look out into the pasture watch the cows come up
one thing that we did have to to kind of worry about was our hot water heater what we ended
up doing is we ended up using a propane hot water heater that was actually in my grandparents house
and i built this little building right here it's not quite finished 100 but for right now it serves
its purpose and that's how we get our hot water on this side the windows were existing here but they
were single pane so we did go ahead and replace those with the double pane insulated windows and
the wife really wanted the black one so we got the black ones this is our mini split this is
what heats and cools our house i talked to the guy that installed it and he definitely recommended
these units and they're becoming really popular in all structures not just the tiny houses
all right y'all let's take a look at the inside
this is our pantry we keep our canned goods and snacks in there and we have a full-size
fridge we knew being in a tiny house it would be small but we configured it out
to where we knew where things would go so we knew that a full-size fridge would fit
and over here we have a full-size sink we knew we weren't going to have a dishwasher
in here so we wanted a bigger sink we give our youngest one a bath in here sometime
so it washes dishes watch us booty so that works too and we actually put this shelf up
it's custom made as well so that's where our plates go
we did butcher block countertops in here i thought it looked good because it was
you know a farmhouse theme and our full-size microwave and stove
this is a junk drawer everybody needs a junk drawer up here is our ceiling we did old barn
wood from the barns out in the pasture we took it down and we sanded it down and put it back
up and we put a clear coat on it we did flush mount lights over here and a ceiling fan
this floor was original in the shed we just sanded it down and put a nice clear coat on there
this is our couch this is a bed and a couch this is where our oldest one sleeps
we pull it down we put a sheet on there and so it turns into a bed
this is our kitchen table so it was custom made and we flip it up and we pull that
and this is where we eat dinner this is where my oldest she does crafts over here so it's perfect
for the tiny house that's where their toys are at is in there and we like to watch tv in here
and this is our bedroom this curtain acts like a door for us so this is our bedroom
we sleep on a full-size bed it's honestly not that bad sleeping on a full-size bed we
downsized from a king so we were a little nervous but it's honestly not bad at all
we have a full-size dresser in here so it's a pretty good sized bedroom for a tiny house
my husband made this hanging storage we utilize it for backpacks and hats and jackets
off of the bedroom is our bathroom
we actually have a decent sized bathroom for our tiny house when we started remodeling the shed i
really wanted a big shower in here and i think we have a good sized shower for the tiny house
this is our closet we have towels my section my daughters that's for dirty clothes and then
we put a clothes rack right here and then a shoe rack down here we don't have a washer and dryer in
here but we do have a washer and dryer in our shop over there a stackable washer and dryer
could fit right there but since we had the shop we thought it'd be easier to save more space and
you know have a clothing rack and where our shoes go so yeah that's our closet
when we first told people that we were gonna move tiny they were like what are you gonna do
there's no way that four people can live in a tiny house but we did it
don't worry about what other people think just go ahead and live your life however you want
to live do it yeah i mean don't be scared if it's something you want to do just go for it
this is an awesome experience for us and we're totally happy with it
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