hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny homes and showcase
people living alternative lifestyles in today's video you're going to meet one mom who has turned
her love for tiny homes into a thriving business it all started when she purchased one tiny home
as a backyard guest cabin and then later decided to move it to an rv park where she rented it out
to guests using the earnings from that first tiny home she decided to buy another and then another
tiny home now with three tiny homes that she's able to rent out to guests she's able to create
passive income for her family she's gonna take us on a tour of her brand new wagon tiny home
and tell us a little bit more about her business strategy if you like these kind of videos make
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hello my name's anita i'm so excited to show you my gypsy wagon lavinia
when i got interested in tiny houses i was already in the real estate business
i was buying residential real estate and renting out long-term rentals i got to visit the tiny
house jamboree it was a big convention some years ago and i just fell in love with tiny
houses i got so excited about them they were so fun and they were so creative and i never thought
about having them as part of my business really and it just sort of accidentally fell into that
i bought a tiny house to use as a guest house at my own house where i live and i ended up running
into trouble with the hoa over that so i didn't know what to do i was worried and upset about
it but i said you know what let's try this crazy thing let me move it over up here to
fair play where i own some rv lots let's put it on a lot and let's see if it could do well as a
short-term rental and i thought i was taking such a big risk and i was so worried about it
and sure enough i brought it up here and it's just been such a huge success
this has been really amazing that i've been able to fit this into my life and continue growing it
and it's something that helps us grow our passive income and is just exciting and fun and a real
creative outlet and makes me really happy to know that i can create these experiences for guests
the very first tiny house i got was from the tumbleweed tiny house company it's the cypress
model it's 20 feet it has a sort of cottage look which everyone loves the way that it's laid out is
that downstairs there's a living space there's a loft upstairs for a sleeping space and there's a
bathroom in the back the second tiny house i got was also from the tumbleweed tiny house company
it was their farallon model and i got a 24 foot long model there's the loft space upstairs which
has a queen size bed and then there's another room in the downstairs you can use it as an
office or in my case i put a bedroom in there so it does have two bedrooms so that's the biggest
tiny house that i have and right behind us here we have my gypsy wagon lavinia which is the smallest
i really wanted to build an experience it wasn't just a place for someone to come
and lay their head after a long day of travel that experience had to start from the moment
you came and what is the first thing you saw of course the door so it meant so much to me to pick
a beautiful door from the moment you arrive you feel like you're entering an experience
all right let's come on inside
welcome to the inside of the gypsy wagon you can see that even though it looks so
small on the outside it actually feels so expansive in here that's because of the
slanted walls and because of this beautiful curved roof with the wonderful exposed wood
one of my absolute favorite details here is this lovely damask wallpaper i myself grew up in the
soviet union in russia where every single home had wallpaper and damascus was the most popular one
seeing this kind of wallpaper makes me think of my childhood so that makes me happy and i hope it
makes other people happy too when you're designing a really fun place like this it's really hard
not to get carried away and go way over budget which is exactly what i did so again it's such
a small space every little detail matters so much i couldn't not get beautiful vintage lighting that
again adds to the character of the place i'm trying to transport you to the olden days here
and if you remember in the olden days before cell phones we used clocks here i got a fun vintage one
it ticks goes back and forth i thought it'd be a fun thing to add to the character of the place
here's our gypsy wagon kitchen and you won't believe how much we have been able to fit in
here so we've got our refrigerator we've got our microwave again i was trying to go for a vintage
feel for the whole house so this is as vintage as i could get something 50 style i like it i think
it looks fun i tried to bring in colorful pottery one of my favorite things that i bought for this
gypsy wagon is this beautiful moroccan teapot it's functional you can boil water in it and
it's also such a lovely decorative piece there's not a lot of room for tchotchkes and
decorations so you really want to make every necessary item in the home as beautiful as
it could be we have a two burner cooktop and a lovely deep copper sink and a coffee maker
we're fully equipped with cookware and plates so
really you have everything you need to comfortably stay here and eat in
so when designing this home it was really important for me to add the
lace curtains i thought it added a real beautiful
sort of gypsy inspired touch and i thought that the tiffany lamb gave a beautiful vintage feel
for the seating area we've got this custom bench and it opens up with storage inside
i knew that when we were going to get a cushion for the seating area it was going to be a big
part of the decor it's a big part of the room it's a small room so i absolutely love what i ended up
with i bought this beautiful moroccan upholstery fabric online i got the foam and then i went to
a custom upholstery shop to create this lovely cushion and i think it adds so much to the space
i got these vintage photos on ebay to add to the gypsy character of the place in russia the image
of gypsies was always with playing cards gypsies always had playing cards so i i was so excited
to find this beautiful vintage photo of a lady all dressed up with a fan of playing cards and
over here is i think an image we're all familiar with a beautiful lady with a big crystal ball
here we've got yet another beautiful curved door
so let's open it up and take a look inside the bathroom can you believe we squeezed a whole
bathroom in here so it is a wet bath you've got a full residential toilet here you've got a shower
here we've got this beautiful vintage looking tile and along the whole length of the bathroom
we've got this ledge so you can sit on it if you're showering and it's a great place to place
toiletries making this tiny little bathroom that much more functional so here we are
entering the bedroom and as you can see the beautiful curves of the house continue here
we've got a lovely curved archway doorway going into the bedroom and in the bedroom of course
we've got the beautiful curved roof and we've got shelving built into that so everywhere you look
you've got this lovely wood and these lovely lines out of the whole gypsy wagon this place makes me
the happiest it just feels so wonderful being here it's so cozy it's so beautiful but because we've
got windows on both sides large windows and this beautiful curved roof it still feels really airy
i just want to lie down and lounge in here all day and go to sleep we've got the beautiful angel lamp
behind us so happy that i found that piece and right here we've got a wall mounted tv so you can
sleep here but you can also lounge here read watch a movie relax just really get away from it all
so here we are at the side of the gypsy wagon it is a full 20 feet long and it's
around 10 feet wide over here so we are at 10 000 feet in a high alpine environment so
one of the most important things up here is skirting this tiny house well so we've got
two inch foam insulation behind here it's fully skirted with this wood and we have to run heated
hoses and hard sewer line and heat tape and heat under there and we've been doing this for a few
years so i think we've got it pretty dialed in to keep things from freezing but it was a big
challenge because we are in this high alpine environment with really extreme weather in the
winter one of the things i decided to spend the extra money on was these super high end windows
these are from a company called alpine out of boulder colorado they're so well insulated they're
going to go a long way to making this home really cozy and wind tight in the winter for the guests
so here we are in the back of the gypsy wagon you can see these slanted walls
and the curved roof that really give that gypsy character here is part of our mini split
all of my tiny homes are heated and cooled with mitsubishi mini splits they're so energy efficient
and most places up here in the high country do not have air conditioning but it can get hot in
the summer so guests really appreciate having that air conditioning option
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