hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and unique homes
this week we're once again heading to a coney bell tiny house community in north carolina to
take a tour of a resident's tiny home em's tiny house was custom built to fit her love of cooking
passion for art and her preference for no lofts and adjacent to her tiny home m has a
mini pottery studio we're gonna take a tour of both and learn why m loves the tiny lifestyle
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hi my name is em and this is my tree house
before this tiny house i lived in my big house
which i refer to now what inspired me to live in a tiny house was just the fact that i can live small
i always have so it wasn't a big step for me but there are no available apartments in the area
that i could pay the amount that i paid to be here on the rent that i pay here and to live in a home
that i designed and made exactly the way i want it to be so it was more of an affordability thing
i have been in a coney bell since it opened i think i was like the fifth
house that rolled in here when it was dirt and no landscaping
and i've been here ever since this is the first place i live with this house also
every day i am teaching art with m school of art so it is my own art school that i started
and i'm also a potter so dancing potter is how i make money through my art i had to have a whole
separate shed to hold my pottery studio so i've made it work with what i have my house is eight
and a half feet wide by 30 feet long and the interior square footage is about 220 square feet
this house was built by brevard tiny house company it cost 66 000 to build it sounds like
a lot to some people but i paid three people to work on it for four months and they did a
way better job than i would have if i tried to build it myself welcome to the treehouse
so this is my kitchen and it was the priority in the build so i have a full oven it's actually a
double oven which is very exciting i like to bake and i have storage for everything that i
use that is not something i skimped on at all and i did not get rid of anything from my kitchen and
my kitchenaid mixer lives on the counter all the time so she's the diva she gets the special spot
i have all drawers in the kitchen so that it could fit in this tiny little galley and one of my
favorite drawers is my spice drawer and this kitchen is all ikea cabinets
and drawers and fixtures one of my favorite things is my dishwasher which is a drawer
dishwasher it was a splurge item but it was definitely worth it
there's a couple of hatches in the floor so all the strange
things that you don't need to get to every day live in there
i have all of my dishes out on a an open shelf because i collect people's pottery i make pottery
myself and it's nice to see everything and i just have an apartment-sized fridge with the freezer on
the bottom i was not going to do a dorm fridge i wanted to have ice cream and normal storage
so those are the big major things that i love about my kitchen and i cook all the time
and i feed my neighbors all the time so uh hopefully that i'm putting it to good use
we'll go to the living room next so i have these two pieces that can actually come down
if i ever want to take them down but honestly they've never come down since i moved in so
but this is where i eat i have people come and hang out with me and we have the stools here
to sit i have a huge window to look out on the creek which has been wonderful and has inspired
a ton of art that i've made um drawings and paintings to look at you know all the trees
in nature and all that so it's like the nature channel discovery channel outside every day
i actually was not going to have such an open layout i was going to have a big couch in here
and when i first got here and the building was empty
i was like nope that couch is not going to fit and so now i have a simple chair i can bring
in other chairs when people come to visit so it's very adaptable for whatever i want to do
my space is big enough to do yoga which is awesome or to stretch um or sometimes people
come over and we hang out on the floor clearly you can see there's a ton of art all over the walls
and that was another priority of mine have as much space as possible for art and art
that i've created art that i have kept from other artists one of the rules i had for myself to keep
the art was i needed to know who made it or have a story about it so that's how all of these things
got to come into my tiny house i have a mini split for heating and air conditioning which is
awesome for tiny houses it pretty much does everything i need it to do and my hallway it's
full of art i've got friends and family art i've got art that i'm selling everywhere it's all over
my bathroom it's bigger than most tiny house bathrooms i just needed to be able to like wash
my hair in the shower without having to bring my elbows in so they found me a really cool corner
unit and i hate shower curtains and so they found me one that had a glass door so that was pretty
cool my builders did a great job with that i have the tiniest toilet ever but it was all that we
could get to fit in there of course i have storage in the cabinet here underneath the
sink and that's wonderful we couldn't put a mirror on the wall because i wanted a window
in here and it worked out because i can brush my teeth and watch the animals in the creek
so it's much more exciting but they did find me this beautiful vanity that has lots of
storage in it so this is where all the bathroom storage is and then i have a washer and dryer
i decided to get two separate units i didn't want the all-in-one because i've heard stories that
they're hard to maintain and they break down when they're working they're great and i was like nope
not messing with that so i designed this space and the bathroom kind of got this big because
of the washer and dryer but it has been perfect so i have no complaints about that at all
the bedroom is just a few steps up i decided i'm not climbing a ladder
and uh and i'm very happy for that it is nice to be able to stand up in my bedroom so i have a
taller bed than most because i have lots of bins underneath there with all of my sewing
and my painting and my costuming and all those good things so that was nice to be able to find
a bed frame that was taller i also wanted to have a closet um i like the cubbies and not a dresser
so i wasn't concerned about um whether a dresser type drawer thing could fit in here they're very
deep shelves because they're basically the length of the washer and dryer and so the
back of the shelves are seasonal clothes that i'm not using and then i rotate them when i need to
okay that was the interior let's take a look around the outside
so i have a pottery studio that i am building and it's under construction right now the
outdoor space for it so i'll take you through the construction and then we'll go see the studio
this space is going to be for fun and you know just to have a nice outdoor
space but i'm going to have my pottery kilns out here they needed a space that
was covered then i'll have pottery wheels and work tables so i can have people come and do
classes with me my work is done in here i am the dancing potter and this is my studio
welcome to the dancing potter studio i am a hand builder i work mostly with a rolling pin rolling
out clay i'm primarily a raku artist that's a very different firing process than what we do
for functional work i work mostly on this table i also have pottery wheels because i do make mugs
people love to have mugs and i have a couple pottery wheels underneath
the table i just roll them out and work with them
and then this is my um glazing area so i have all my chemicals to mix my own glazes
i have all my bins of glazes currently the kiln lives somewhere else so as soon as this
build is finished i'll be able to bring it here and then i won't have to travel
um with my work everybody always wonders what the weird pile of goo is i'm recycling clay right now
so it's very very wet and squishy and so i've laid it out to dry a little bit it's wonderful
to have all these windows in here clearly i'm influenced by nature i do lots of work with trees
and leaves and the moon and the sun and and rocks and all that stuff so it's nice to be surrounded
with that as i work and my poor neighbors at night probably watch me dancing in here
when i'm working i always have music going there's a reason why i'm called the dancing potter um so
yeah i probably should pull the shades down but they get a free show i guess all right i'm going
to take you around the outside of the house so you can see what i've got going on so we are able to
do any kind of landscaping that we want for the most part so these little sticks are actually
the tomato steaks from this property it used to be a tomato farm and so i cut them down and made
a fun border i get to live by two different creeks this is gold mine creek and this is boylston creek
the groundhog if he wasn't shy might come up and visit us when it's warm i love sitting here i
can watch the creek and listen to the birds this was especially nice during the pandemic to have
an outdoor space to invite friends over and we all felt safe hanging out with each other here
so this is the garage this is the space that's underneath my bedroom
and it is anything you would put in a garage so it's tools and camping gear it goes all the
way across the whole bit of the building and the water heaters in there as well so it's wonderful
when it's not packed with stuff i can actually crawl in it um to organize things so it's uh
it's really nice i have a lot of storage probably have way too many things for owning a tiny house
i have a rain barrel i thought it was going to be to water my plants but it rains so much
here that's not really necessary for that but i do collect rainwater and then if our
well ever goes out or electricity goes out then i'll invite people over here to get water to
flush their toilets so kind of a weird thing but that's what it's uh become used for at this point
and then i have a fire pit here and i get to look out over this beautiful
creek and have people over to sit around the fire and enjoy nature
i want to continue living this way and i feel like more people need to see
how we live we're just people that are living like normal we are normal neighborhood we live
just like everyone else we're working we have families i just want people to support the way
we live and not think of us as being rvs that are pulling in and out all the time
we just want to be in this community and we want to live in a more sustainable and affordable way
right now i am happy as a clam just digging in and enjoying this space that i've got here
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