hey everyone in this video were visiting
the Orchard House which is a ten by
nineteen foot tiny house on wheels with
a unique folding ladder and a massive
loft there's actually a couple living in
the tiny house right now but we're gonna
meet up with Colin the Builder who's
gonna give us a full tour
this is the first tiny house I did it's
called the orchard house it's supposed
to resemble an apple in some way so the
bottom part is green like a green apple
and then the top part of the shingles I
stain those shingles to resemble the
color of the apple seeds and so it's
called the orchard house because I built
it it on our site which is in an apple
orchard it started as a dream in the
beginning having very minimal
construction experience going through my
whole apprenticeship continuing that
dream well I will learn the trade and
then carrying on as a contractor for a
few years and then being ready to fully
dive into this it's a wonderful thing
it's it's my dream I love this home this
is this is my work of art yeah the
orchard house is 10 feet wide by 19 feet
long I made it so that you didn't have
to get into any serious oversized
permits to move it so it's it can be
moved pretty conveniently and easily and
I maxed out the sizes the dimensions to
get as much living space out of it as I
as I possibly could the the style of the
finishing and the architecture is very
West Coast so this is a ship's ladder
that I designed and I went with a ship's
ladder because it's a combination
between stairs and a ladder the stairs
take up a lot of room a ladder is hard
to climb for a lot of people so to make
things easy to get in and out of left
and to save space I went with a ship's
ladder
the nice thing about this design with
the kitchen and everything in the way it
all fits together is it's got these
hinges on the back and then there's a
cabinet latch there that latches and
then this just slides along this bar
and stores against the pantry so it's
right out of the way it doesn't take up
any space during the day so it's it's
actually got these little handrails on
it that you can hang on to and it's got
quite quite wide treads on it they're
about twice as wide as a ladder normally
so it feels kind of like it feels really
like a ladder and stairs combined it's
really right in between so this is the
tiny kitchen table and it's got two
chairs right next to the window and if
you need the space for something else
just fold it down you've got more space
so normally in a tiny house when the
people you know crawl into the loft
climbing to the left and the person's
filming over there
and they call them they go like this and
this is my loft and it's really small
like a tent or something but I really
wanted to get a big space up here I
wanted to be more like a bedroom than
than of just a place to sleep so with
this tiny house I can't leave her the
joist over the edges of the trailer it's
ten feet wide so that means at the tops
of the walls the roof line starting at
the wall has further to travel to get to
the peak which makes it taller and it's
wider because of the width so it's
really like you know it's much closer to
a bedroom up here it's it's quite it's
quite big and it's it's just a lovely
lovely feel a lovely space it's got
these four windows awning windows
opening windows with screens so you can
open those up and get a full cross
breeze going in here wait you're
sleeping in the summer there's 2 dormers
in here there's two shed-dormer so that
raises the the height of the roof even
more so that creates a taller space on
the outside edges of the left so the
electrical it's wired for 110 and that
can be changed to 12 volt by adding an
inverter afterwards that's just an
add-on and really easy to do just just
that literally just add it on the water
comes in through an external hose bib
that gets the water into the house I
decided to put a composting toilet in
this house but the homeowners have the
option of just putting a regular
porcelain toilet here connecting it to
the septic so it has both options the
only thing that uses electricity in this
tiny house is the plugs the lights and
the apartment size energy-efficient
fridge the hot water is heated with
propane it's an on-demand system
interior the
stove in the oven our propane this is a
still 11 unit here and this is run on
propane and the fireplace at the front
that's really beautiful looks like a
wood stove but it's actually a propane
fireplace and the door even opens up
that's a really nice little unit it's
got wood in it it's a fake wood actually
but it looks like wish and you just you
just come over here
and you flick a switch on the thermostat
and it fires up and you have a beautiful
flame in there and it looks just like a
wood stoves burning that's the beauty of
having a propane in the tiny house of
post of wood because you put a piece of
wood in there and you light a fire and
all of a sudden this place is like an
oven because it's so small it's really
hard to regulate the heat but with
propane it's on a thermostat I mean for
practicality propane is is much more
practical opening up this hatch at the
end of the tiny house there's 230 pound
propane tanks in here in an effort to
create this house with the possibility
of being off-grid the propane is there
to support that
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a full-size house nowadays you're
looking at half a million dollars you
know and for for a tiny house like this
you know it's a very much a fraction of
the cost of that the dilemma on the west
coast of North America all the way from
BC down to San Diego California is the
price of land and the price of homes is
it's so high that you basically have to
get super lucky to buy a home or you
know win the lottery or it's a miracle I
always say it's a miracle for young
people to buy a home on the west coast
so the opportunity for for young people
to have a stable home to actually plant
roots and they can develop a sense of
connection with the land around them
which is so important the goal is for
people to have the opportunity to sink
their roots into community
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if you want to see more of Colin's
tiny-home projects you can check out his
website at salt spring island tiny homes
calm our friend Simon actually filmed
this video for us he was one of the
first people that we interviewed on our
channel and he's working on a really
interesting project right now he's
converting a catamaran to live on that's
gonna be working entirely off of solar
and wind energy so definitely check out
his youtube channel it's called finding
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