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Hey guys, are you ready for another tiny house video tour? Well,
today I'm going to show you the inside of the stunning tiny house,
which is parked on a homestead run by a family with two young children.
The inside is simply gorgeous. I think you guys are gonna love it.
So without further ado, let's go take a tour.
I'm Tessa Chittle and this is my son Ava Chittle and my daughter
Ada Lee Chittle. And this is our tiny house farm stay.
Our tiny house is located on six acres of property outside of Harbor
Washington.
And here on the property we have about three acres of forest and three acres of
open space that house our vegetable garden,
our goat pastures.
Right now we have nine goats and we have about 20 chickens,
two Muskogee ducks, two runner, baby runner ducks that follow us all around.
And two bunnies in a bunny tractor down in our food forest.
We decided to build a tiny house after my daughter was born and we were trying
to figure out a way that I could kind of explore my passions as a mom and as a
homesteader and sharing that message of bold living and alternative living with
others.
This is our main living space. Um, the living room,
kitchen and dining room. So here's the sitting space.
This is actually a seven foot long storage couch,
so it fits quite a few people and it also folds out into a bed pretty much for a
single adult, but maybe two kiddos if they want to scratch on there.
So this is a great space or sitting,
taking a view out our French doors out to our flower garden,
watching the chickens and just being inspired,
whether it be for writing or reading or just relaxing.
And there's also full storage under the entire thing for extra blankets and
pillows and things like that.
We also have an array of magazines and children's toys. Um,
depending on who the visitors are that we have here at the farmstay,
we have a nice little cozy fireplace. The Dickinson model.
We also have a backup heat source.
If people don't want to bother with the fireplace.
We have an electric heater that really heats up the space well
Here is our kitchen space.
It was very important to me when I was designing kitchen.
That's really important to me that the kitchen space be a place that people can
cook and enjoy the harvest from the homestead and bring it back to their tiny
house and make a delicious meal if they so choose.
I've had these since I think college or something. Um,
these little magnetic things and they just worked perfectly here.
So this allows people to make a meal here with lots of different flavorings.
Whenever we have fresh herbs, we put those in little jars for people as well.
And then of course I had to have my large farmhouse sink with the big window
looking back into the forest
So these shelves were really important to me when I bought them because we
originally wanted to paint this entire house white. That was my vision.
But when we put this beautiful Cedar on the walls, everybody was like,
don't paint it. So pretty.
So I decided to bring in kind of the glam and the lightness with other things.
For example,
these marble shelves with the gold brackets as well as most of the light
fixtures are a little glam.
A lot of them are gold and kind of fancy from Etsy.
I originally had wanted a full size fridge because I wanted this kitchen to be
fully functional and have space for lots of produce from the farm. Um,
but when the reality hit of space,
we realized we really wanted this long counter space for food preparation.
And when you have a full size fridge, you don't get that counter space.
So we went with an undercounter fridge and I found one by Danby that kind of has
the vintage look to it. And we had someone stay here for three months.
They put all their food in here and they were fine.
We also have extra space in our garage for guests if they need freezer space or
fridge space for something. Um,
but since a lot of the food is fresh on the farm,
you don't have to store it in a fridge. You can pick it every day if you'd like.
I had been thinking about the design of my tiny house for years.
I grew up in various small dwellings,
one of which was a tiny one room cabin one was a school bus that had been
renovated.
So I'd had a lot of experience with tiny living as a child before it was,
you know, trendy and hip and all that kind of stuff.
So a lot of my design came from kind of experience I had with that
when I watched all the tiny house shows. I was like,
where do people gather? We gather around our farm tables so much.
So these little fold-out farm tables weren't going to work for kind of my family
or would I envision families doing here when they came for a visit. So, um,
we came up with this very long, narrow farm table design. Um,
and then behind it we have a bench that is full of storage and that's where our
wheel wells are.
When you want to have a bit bigger of a dinner party,
you can fold out this which what's in there also it's full of games.
If you want to have a game night.
You can't just have people sitting on one side of the table.
So this rolls over and allows you to have someone sitting on the other side.
So with the loft, most important to me was child safety.
Considering I had two children,
myself and lots of people coming out to the farm day that would have children.
So we went with a full wall that closes off the lock from the rest of the space.
And this also provides a lot of privacy.
It really makes it feel like its own full bedroom up there rather than just a
place to sleep up above the rest of the house.
And then we also put in this slat railing,
which serves as something to hold onto for anybody coming down the stairs.
Since the stairs are a little steep
So this is the loft space.
There's a queen size bed up here with a beautiful view of the homestead out this
window and again, the forest out the back window.
We also have this cute little reading nook,
which is one of our favorite places to sit and read and cuddle and look out at
the homestead.
It can serve as a single futon for a child who likes to sleep next to their
parents or even in other adults if they want to.
We have plenty of hanging space here for at least one person in the family.
I found this long basket at Goodwill,
which takes advantage of the full length of the stairs. It's actually very deep,
so it's nice to have a basket,
otherwise it's hard to reach the stuff in the back.
We also put in this little nautical light to make it kind of feel like a little
boat cabin and to bring a little bit of the Harbor vibe.
So we're going to enter the bathroom and there's an Aza in there.
Oh, she's demonstrating the toilet,
demonstrating the nature's head toilet composting toilet.
You may need a little bathroom shelf that holds the toilet paper,
just using some wood that's stained and plumbing.
Things from Home Depot.
I designed this little shelf and my husband built it for me from my vision.
So it opens like that and then this becomes your counter space.
You can put your bathroom bag, your makeup, your whatever you do in the morning.
I don't do much in the morning. I know some people do.
So you have all your products out there and when you're done you can put them
away. Then you kind of just have whatever you want seen out.
So it gives you some hidden storage as well as that nice counter space.
And then I found this little mirror at an antique store here in Harbor.
If you want to get up close and personal with your face.
We have a tiny little sink that I searched for for a long time.
I think it ended up finding that one on Amazon
has to be a full size. I think it's 32 by 32 inch shower in there.
I had wanted a tub for families,
but we have a little baby bathtub that we bring out and people have kids and we
also have the old fashioned tub for outside for kids to play in in the summer.
So this is the downstairs private bedroom and you can see there is a bed here,
um, which I'm going to demonstrate folding up. So it's pretty easy.
I can even do it with the baby on me.
It's grab underneath and hold it up
into there. And then you just click the legs close to secure it like that
and this space becomes your yoga space.
The reason we kind of wanted a tiny house to be located on a homestead like this
was just so people could come out and get whatever level of taste of this type
of living they want. So they might just be looking at it from afar,
or they may be getting more involved in coming out to do an animal feeding,
or maybe they want to do a more in depth class here where they're doing some
gardening or some canning or some cooking or other projects around the
homestead.
One of the reasons we became homesteaders is because we wanted to have more
community around us and kind of have that more communal living fields.
It actually has really made our lives much more enjoyable and fun to share this
space and the homestead with others.
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