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of people living alternatively today we're traveling to las vegas to meet
a triple platinum recording artist who downsized from a 2700 square foot house
into a tiny home lashon is going to take us on a tour of her fabulously decorated home
and explain what inspired her to make such a big lifestyle change and if you guys like these
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hi i'm lashawn and this is my tiny house jewel
my life before was quite different i'm actually a triple platinum recording artist i did a very
popular song with ll cool j called doing it doing it and doing it and doing it well
and i did a lot of traveling on tour buses that was probably my introduction to living tiny
my daughter got pregnant and when i knew she was going to need my help i moved into
this big house 2 700 square feet when she moved out i didn't need to be in that space
by myself anymore it was just way too much so i started thinking more about going tiny
i've been in jewel for about a year and a half
i am in las vegas and i am at a really nice rv park here the size of my rig is 24
feet so when i drop the door i get another i think it's about six and a half seven feet
as far as the design and construction of jewel all of that was me i did hire help here and there for
things that i felt was out of my scope and once i had all that in place i knew i was good to go
you can't really put a price on the blood sweat and tears i have experienced in doing
all of this if i had to just kind of do a guesstimate i'm probably somewhere around 25k
so this is the outside of jewel as you can see i like to decorate everything
even though i live in a tiny home it doesn't mean that i don't want it to look
and feel good when i first bought my rig i thought that i was going to need a huge generator and i
did end up buying a huge generator but it was sitting up here on this rack and then when i
sold the generator i decided that i wanted to do something different with
the space that i have here so i created more of a desert zen kind of feeling
i always like having outdoor spaces i needed to create sort of a living room for myself out
here so i have my lounge chairs and i put a table here and i made the table high enough so that i
can actually put a freezer underneath because as you know living tiny we have small refrigerators
and freezers and so i like the fact that i have a large freezer outside and then i can actually
watch tv outside while i kick back the wood on the side of jewel tends to trick a lot of people
they think that it's actual wood and i like it because it gives more of a
homey kind of feel but it's actually a wrap that i had done i'm glad that i did it
and then i also like to cook outside and so i put my oven outside two burner electric
and then i have like a griddle now if i just want to kind of hang out i can actually drop the back
of the rig and so i have my patio out here and then i just pull up a chair and i can kick back
just like that let's take a look inside inside i think the first thing that most people notice
is my dining room lounge i actually took the same color scheme that i had in the house that i was
living in and i just kind of downsized everything like even the pictures that are on the wall they
were way bigger i cut them down reframed them because i still wanted to use the artwork
obviously i couldn't get my chest to feel couch in here so i found a love seed
that was almost small enough but the arms made it a little bit too big so me doing
what i usually do i call myself miss macgyver so i had to macgyver it and i took the arms off
so it would fit right in that space and it fits really well it feels really homey
because i didn't want my space to feel too heavy i went with ghost chairs the ghost
chairs just kind of give a light feeling to the space i think this style is kind of zen glam
on this side of my rig the first thing that i did before i even got her situated was i
pulled out the huge convection microwave that was here blocking you when you first walked in
i ended up using ikea cabinets for the upper cabinets because the ikea cabinets
are lighter weight and you can get it in a lot of different configurations so i like
the fact that i was able to put in a shallow cabinet for when you first walk in the door
and it really opened up the space one of the other things that i
really loved was picking out my countertops i had originally bought butcher block because you know
everybody in the tiny home communities you know raves about the butcher block but i was like this
i'm sorry this is heavy and it was extremely heavy
so i actually ended up posting it on offer up and got rid of the butcher block and then i went with
a premium laminate which i love because it gives the feeling of petrified wood or stone it could
go either way and that's what i love about it i did that and then i had an extension put on
at the end of it another thing that i went with that was super important to me was having a deep
sink so i used a laundry sink instead of a normal kitchen sink because the laundry sinks are deeper
i can put my butcher block chopping board on top of that if i need more work space
so on the opposite side of the kitchen i have my dometic refrigerator freezer
i took the closet that was here on this side which was meant to be some sort of
clothes closet and i turned it into my appliance garage i needed to make sure that i had an air
fryer my microwave i love it i love having that space i can put all of my appliances in one area
next to the refrigerator is the bathroom i pretty much gutted everything out of the bathroom except
for the shower base and the cabinet i wanted to make it feel like my style so i went ahead and
put the nice tiles on the wall i did the gold fixtures and everything in this space as well
from there we take a step back and then we're in my boudoir bedroom slash office
this was completely empty because again this was a toy hauler so this rig is meant to haul toys like
race cars or four-wheelers motorcycles it gave me a blank space to be able to just do my thing
when i first purchased it it was in texas i ended up taking this measurement and i was able to start
taping out every single piece on the garage floor of the house where i was living
instead of putting in a regular closet i put in a closet that's actually made for a child's room but
it's perfect for a tiny house i ended up buying these really nice baskets and they were perfect
and i keep my shoes and my hats and everything in there i repurposed a tray to keep my buddha on
and a couple little sayings one of my favorite quotes is the man that thinks he knows everything
learns nothing so i keep that as a reminder every day to try and learn something new
i do have an antique phone on the wall i like to collect old things mostly phones and cameras and
i have my desk which is a high-low desk so i can stand up and work my bed is up a little bit high
but that's because i have a lot of storage underneath the other thing that really shocks
people in here is the chandelier it's a tiny house why do you need a chandelier because i need a
chandelier okay because that's me so i created one for my space that's the thing about living tiny is
it's not so bad as long as you surround yourself with the things that are important to you
what i love about living tiny is that i was able to reduce my carbon footprint and simplify my life
yeah i know i'm a girl from brooklyn and i'm from the hood but i'm really like an undercover tree
hugger i always knew that i wanted to live this lifestyle like i said i got that bug when i was
on the road so i'm glad that i'm able to do that and at the same time reduce my carbon footprint
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