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living alternatively in today's video
we're traveling back to luxedy tiny
house community in arizona to meet tiny
house owners kirk and deb
take it for me one of the problems with
living in a tiny house is that you don't
have any space to invite over friends
and family
well kirk and deb came up with a
solution for that because they bought
not just one but two tiny houses
they use one for themselves and the
second one as a place to host friends
and family and we're gonna take a look
at both tiny houses today
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hi i'm deb and i'm kirk and this is our
tiny house
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we were looking for property
to potentially build a cabin and then we
ran into lux to knee we're driving
through and all of a sudden it said open
house when we stopped and came in
i was so amazed that it didn't seem tiny
shockingly large it didn't feel small
tiny none of that it was amazing just
like a cabin the next morning i said i
know this is gonna sound crazy
this might be a better solution for us
it certainly checks all the boxes for
the two of us
to come up and to visit stay a month two
months whatever the case may be and so
it's worked out amazingly
it has a lot of woodworking features
that are very interesting to me it's a
perfect fit for all the live edge type
of woodworking that i do
i'm an epoxy master i'm an artist in
four galleries and i do work on skulls
and resins and coppers and patinas my
shop is located nearby here
so very convenient to work and live
close by
it's in my heart to do this kind of work
so it's absolutely a perfect fit
you do not own
the actual property however you pay a
lease and that lease can be around 300
depending on the parcel that you have
this tiny house was for sale for
75 thousand
the deck that we planned and all the
materials
cost us about 8 500
i would say we're probably at about 82
on everything that we've invested
this is a faux stone
and also of faux wood but they're made
to withstand the weather for long
periods of time
the combination of everything is kind of
a classy look for a tiny house instead
of just a normal paint job
it blends well with all the colors of
the deck the gravel the flowers the
plants it's kind of a natural look
gravel's basalt has crushed up boulders
from the area and then pavers to start
the deck
and then i made the steps kind of short
for my mother to get up and down off the
deck
this material for the guard rails is a
baltic birch cabinet quality plywood a
cnc machine person was making children's
toys out of
and he was throwing this away but it was
too cool and too structural to let that
happen so
i turned it into our rails of our deck
with the deck we have a lot of outdoor
living space i don't feel like i have a
tiny house
so here on my tiny house giant patio you
have one of my very cool during the game
of thrones times idea
i found this lightning struck ponderosa
pine tree in the forest got a wood
permit because i saw this and i knew
exactly what it would be as my throne
we have a large backyard and so we're
working on the landscape we've completed
some of this somewhat we're going to
have a picnic table and stuff and i
still have to joint the grass
and back here it's going to be full of
vegetables as well i grow a lot of
peppers and i dry them all separately
and then i like to smoke my peppers it's
incredible on your food with some smoked
peppers there's nothing like it i love
my smoker and i love smoking my chilis
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so not only am i planting trees and
doing landscape in my own yard but i'm
planting 60 plus trees in the
neighborhood so in the future everybody
can enjoy
the beautiful aspen trees and locust
trees and pine trees
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so now we're on the inside of my not so
tiny house it's more like living in a
regular house
full-size refrigerator
full-size gas oven granite countertops
backsplash granite and tile plenty of
space for any kind of cooking needs
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over here we have some of my handmade
furniture this is a coffee table with
resin the wood is mesquite
and then this desk slash countertop area
is black walnut where i leave the bark
on and then up here we have some actual
lights that we created for a small space
and works quite well
and then we carried some of the detail
from outside inside with the rock
features and such
and then we have our
wine cabinet
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and then it's still cold at night here
so i'm growing a lot of my plants inside
some trees for the neighborhood also
inside that i'm propagating
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we have a mini split system it's a heat
pump and ac all-in-one and it handles
this square footage really well
one more
piece of art that i've done in here is
this actual cow skull that was kind of
rotting away
so i did some of my tricks and
techniques on that and now it will go
into a gallery in scottsdale arizona
and then this is another live edge sort
of a floating shelf
that's made out of a tree that you can't
really buy anywhere so you have to know
about it to acquire it but it's silky
oak
and once again i leave the bark on it
just adds a lot of extra features and
details
then over here we have a copper and
patina deer skull with rusted horns
so i'll polish this just a little bit
more to show the copper in the deer
skull
and then moving into the bathroom once
again i don't feel tiny full-size shower
full-size closet for all your towels and
toiletries full-size everything plenty
of space for all your needs
then into the master suite
we have pocket doors
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here we have full size washer and dryer
very nice very functional
large tv on the walls when you're laying
at beds like a movie theater
then we have a closet
very spacious closet
and this headboard we acquired from a
lady it was handmade in mexico so it
kind of fits my style and looks
beautiful in the decor very matching
and then kind of rare a cigar box guitar
actual real cigar box it's electric it
has all the stuff a real guitar has in
it and the neck is made out of indian
rosewood book matched that's why it has
this cool feature in the middle i milled
the wood myself
a guy
in colorado built this for me i traded
him some wood
for the guitar he was extremely happy
and so am i
we've been here two years we have a
really good friend here who basically
said hey i just want to let you know my
tiny house will be for sale would you be
interested we decided that it was a
really good thing to do because
we can have our friends come up and then
our grandchildren can come up and stay
so it gave us more options
this is our second property and
the thing that i like a lot about this
property as opposed to the other one is
the fact that it's flipped we have the
living area
that's facing the street and we have a
lot of flowers that are blooming in the
spring so that's really fun the one
thing that we really liked about this
layout is the fact that we have
full-size appliances in our kitchen a
lot of people that do come up and want
to stay for a good week or even a month
they really enjoy having a full-size
refrigerator as well as range
one of the things that we have found
being up here in the white mountains is
a lot of folks want to bring their pets
so we allow pets and with that we have
two doggy doors you're able to go out
for an entire day leave your doggy doors
open your dog can go out to the fenced
area and play
all day long
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the bathroom we have a full-size shower
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one of the things about the bedroom that
we added
is we added a memory foam queen size
mattress also we added blackout blinds
to the bedroom in the event you want to
sleep in in the morning we also have a
tv once again that you can use
and we have a
full-size washer and dryer
available
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i enjoy a small space because i've just
learned to consume less you don't need
15 bath towels you need two so you just
have a tendency to live more simplified
very simple
i hope you guys enjoyed this week's
video if you'd like to see a tour of lux
to knee tiny house community make sure
you check out the video in the
description below and i will see you
soon with another tiny or unique home
tour
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