hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and unique
homes today we're traveling back to incredible tiny homes tiny home community to take a tour
of martha's beautiful container home martha took a big risk downsizing into a tiny container home
in rural tennessee after being inspired by watching youtube videos maybe a video just
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now without further ado let's jump right in and take a tour of martha's container home
hi i'm marta girve this is my tiny home
we are located in newport tennessee it's a tiny tiny tiny town there's not much here but we are
close to asheville and knoxville and some other bills i forget right now and we're close to the
entrance to the smoky mountain national park so i've been hiking a few times and it's just
beautiful i was looking for where to put a tiny house for years i wanted a tiny house for years
but i just couldn't find a place where to live legally so one night i was looking at many youtube
channels of tiny houses and randy jones the owner of this company was talking about a community
and i was wait what do you say a community i set up all night i watch all his videos
and he was studying a community there was nothing here but he had the vision of what it was going to
be and he also built tiny houses so i emailed them and then the next morning somebody from
his office emailed me back and said we have a spot available and i sent a deposit right away
and i told my family i bought a tiny house they say where i said in tennessee from who
i said from a guy it's a guy on youtube and i send a deposit and i have a lot in a tiny house
there was something about randy i mean he has charisma and he was
he's just so passionate about what he's doing it it's contagious you you want to believe
we have wireless internet and that is about 70 that's the most expensive and my electric bill
it has been between 30 and 34 a month last month was the highest because i had the fireplace on
and i had the mini split on all the time so it was i think it was 38 last month
so i am not retired i work for the federal government i work for fema i work from home
for the office of disaster assistance the name for the tiny house came from the neighbors when they
moved the container to this spot i wasn't here yet and they saw this big block box moving in
and somebody gave it the name the death star and then when i moved in here she came in and she said
i named it the death star but i'm not going to call it that anymore because you're so nice
and i said no i'm keeping the name because i'm the biggest star wars fan and i love the name
so it stayed the death star so i wanted a tiny house for a long time i travel a lot for work
and i have lived in hotels for months and months and months and realize i don't need much
and then i would have a house where i was paying for a house that sat empty with rooms that i never
went into because i'm single and for a long time i wanted a tiny house and once i gave a deposit
here i came to two little tiny houses that he has different models and he has a model that's called
a freedom and i thought that's what i wanted and i went into it and i just cannot sleep in a loft
i went up on that loft and it looks cozy and beautiful but i knew that i couldn't sleep in
that enclosed of a space so he had a shipping container that was that they
had done that was available for touring and when i walked into it i it was love at first
sight i knew that i i knew that that was the house for me i mean i can have everything on one floor
there's just so much room for for a tiny house or someone who lives in a big house this is very
small but there's a lot of room and this is a high cube so it's a little bit taller than a
regular shipping container and it's a little bit more money but i think it it's worth it
the base price was 56 000 i have extras the sliding glass doors were extra
the farmer's sink was extra the big pantry was extra and the hook up for the washer and dryer
as you come in we have the living room this is where i have movie nights we have a fireplace
the one thing i love the most about the house is the sliding glass doors you could have a
wall there but putting the doors just it just lets so much light in and it just brings the outside
into the house then we have this is my dining room table and my workspace i work from home
so this container is 8x40 there is a lot of storage in here the sofa is all
storage and then in the kitchen i have so much storage a lot of these covers are still empty
i designed the house and gave incredible tiny homes the builder the exact dimensions
i wanted so i told him the size of the stove it's a tiny tiny stove but i have an oven
the farm sink which i love always wanted a farmer's sink and a small refrigerator
the one thing i really wanted was the a pantry because i didn't want the appliances to be all
out in the kitchen to do clutter so i have a big big pantry and i have a dehydrator
and a food processor and it all fits on the bottom so the kitchen doesn't look clutter
i've had parties here for eight people and we laid out the food and we had music
for a tiny house there is a lot of room in here so between the kitchen and the bathroom is a barn
door and now we're in the bathroom i get to have a full size washer and dryer a full-size shower
and then one of the best things the bedroom there's another barn door here
and this is the bedroom
and i get to have a queen size bed and a tiny house there's no room for much
more but it's all you need i have the bed and i have two storage containers
and now we can look at the outside of the container
it's an 8x40 shipping container when they brought it in there's a video when they placed
a container on this lot and it was terrifying i didn't think it was going to fit it was
so scary but i left it to randy he said it will fit and i'm like well that is randy's problem
right now i'm in the forest this community has
three different sections i'm in the forest there's the beach and then there's the prairie
the container is on a triple axle trailer once you place it on the final spot where it's going to be
i think we can take the wheels off and it'll be more permanent and then they'll put the skirting
on the color honestly i saw another youtube video of another container and i love the color so i
picked the same color as a dark gray looks black but it's a dark gray i left the original doors
so once it's moved to where it's going to stay we will open the doors and do a deck in between them
other than my container the best part is the community the people here are so nice
and so friendly i've had people here for coffee i hop around i have drinks with someone coffee
with someone walks with someone we don't have to lock our doors i had a 20s gatsby inspired
murder mystery dinner here two weeks ago and i had eight people here i have lived in a lot of places
and i never met my neighbors and i've been here three months already and i have met just about
everyone and have made friends with a lot of people already i think that what he did creating
this community giving us a place where to put our tiny homes and where people who think alike can
get together it's it's just amazing so i thought about this lifestyle for a long
time and it's not conventional i had to convince my family but it's perfect
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