hi there welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes in today's video
we meet Karine who retired into a tiny house village with a custom-built tiny home that
accommodates her disability ordinary stairs can be a challenge for me these stairs have
a somewhat shorter rise and a somewhat longer run and so it's a very natural walk if you want
to design a tiny house don't listen to anybody tell you that a tiny house should have this or
a tiny house should have that make it personal and you'll never want to live anywhere else
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hi I'm Corrine Corley and this is my tiny house Angels Haven foreign [Music]
I lived in a traditional 100 year old airplane Bungalow in Brookside which is an old neighborhood
in Kansas City Missouri I wanted to make a big change in my life I felt compelled to downsize
I also wanted to do something really radical and there's nothing more radical than closing your
law practice selling your house building a tiny house and moving 2500 miles so that's what I did
I saw a tiny house on the side of the road and I said that's exactly what I want someone to
vote for me so I got off the highway where I saw this tiny house and it was a bakery
right in the middle of rural Missouri and it turns out the woman's husband had built this
tiny house I sat down I had a pastry and a cup of coffee and I hired a husband to build the house
I had this house built in Missouri which is the lumber capital of the United States it
was built in 2017 the trailer cost 5 000 all in delivered to this spot I spent 37 500. you
couldn't do that today we are currently in park Delta Bay which is an RV park and
Tiny House community in the California delta well I've been in park Delta Bay
since December 2017. presently there are 13 owner occupied tiny houses in park Delta Bay
the current Lobby is 800 that includes sewer water and Repair on electricity
the size of my tiny house is 24 feet long it's 13 and a half feet high it is a half feet wide which
is the limit if you don't want to have to get a extra eye permit when you go on the roadway the
base square footage is 270 if you count the Watts [Music] the name of my house is Angels Haven I've
always had an affinity with angels this mural was painted by an artist named Alex lash this mural
depicts the Thematic focus of a Grateful Dead song called broke down palace it's a little faded now
because it was painted two years ago but it is an angel sitting by a river under a willow tree
which is part of the lyric of broke down palace my little brother Stephen committed suicide in 1997
and broke down palace was the primary song that we played at his memorial service it's evocative of
the piece that we hope that he had after he died I actually designed this cupboard the carpenter
built it was not really in favor of this cupboard but I said it has to have a cupboard and you'll
see why so my goal eventually is to go off grid I wanted to have the electrical panel accessible and
if you can see behind my ladder that's where the electrical panel is in the middle section would
be solar panels folded and put in there for travel and then in this section I would have
a freshwater holding tank and so it's actually functional and now beautiful because of the mural
so this is the back of angels Haven every lot has a Power and Water Hookup this is
Park water the park is on a closed system so in other words we have our own water
purifying station on the other side of the park I believe I'm 30 amp but the pole can be 50 or
30. I don't have to have 50 because I don't have air conditioning I do lease my propane
because of my disability I don't want to have to be dealing with propane tanks and so that's
back here but the real beauty of the back of my house is this gorgeous Meadow you see the willow
trees it's very open people walk through we have picnics or parties sometimes and the bridge to my
neighbors across the creek the road on this side of the park is a quarter mile so if someone is
into walking and exercise they can walk the road and see the beauty of this Meadow we have Hawks
and owls and coyotes it really personifies the beauty of the California delta [Music]
now when I moved here there were rules about how big your added porch could be and so the
first porch on my house is the small one which was the depth that was permitted when I moved
here and then they relaxed the rules a little bit so I had the little eight I ain't built [Music]
we all have Gardens here one of the things that the park provides is hook
up so you can water your plants from the irrigation system rather than having to
water them from the treated water and so as you can see my succulents are thriving
one of the things I did was put in a new on-demand hot water heater and you can
see that it's installed to the outside it's a Precision temp and I've had it now for about
two years amazingly effective and of course I can't forget I really wanted to have a cedar
house so this was milled and installed green it takes about a year to cure and so my instructions
were to weatherproof it after about a year so I did and that's why you see all the natural
variation in the wood because I let It season before I put a sealant on it to get that true
Missouri look so now that you've seen the outside of angels Haven come on in and see the inside
this house was custom built to my specifications by a carpenter in Missouri
as you can see it's laid out a little differently than many people Envision a tiny house the kitchen
counter is about six feet long and I had to have room for this beautiful secretary which belonged
to my mother-in-law I actually had an argument with the carpenter he kept saying you're losing
two feet of counter and I kept saying but look at this beautiful piece everything in this house is
exactly the way I would have it if I still lived in a traditional house many of the things that are
in this house came from my traditional house the pieces that you see and the secretary the dishes
my desk is here everything speaks of the way that I live it wouldn't be good for everybody but it's
perfect for me the house that I had in Missouri was a hundred-year-old Bungalow parts of that
house were paneled in very old Knotty Pine and you can see for example the cabinet is built from
leftover pieces of the very Knotty Pine that were in the basement of my traditional home in Missouri
we preserved them and use them for the cabinet in the bathroom and the edging on my kitchen cabinet
when I first had this house built there was an RV stove here and it had great burners but
I didn't like the oven part of it I never used it and it's taking up three cubic feet of floor
space so recently I had it taken out when the RV stove was here the cabinet that was here could
not be used because the stove was in front of it so now I have an entire cabinet that I never had
before and it fits everything that used to just be crammed everywhere it fits in here I loved
the burners of the stove so I've replicated that with the burners that we dropped into the counter
in my traditional house I had an upstairs bathroom that I had
remodeled and it had a tiled shower and I wanted the same tiles in this shower
and as a consequence I have a beautiful tiled shower and it is 42 inches deep
the reason I have a composting toilet is I do have aspirations to go off grid I picked the
Nature's head toilet and I have a fair amount of regret about that this receptacle for the
urine model I don't have it diverted to the gray water line so I have to actually empty it into the
gray water line and the other problem with it is that's how you turn it to compost you can't really
do it with your foot otherwise it's great this backsplash these are tiles that were in various
places in my childhood home that's how I got this backslash and that's the really important thing
about if you want to design a tiny house make it personal don't listen to anybody tell you that a
tiny house should have this or a tiny house should have that make it personal and you'll never want
to live anywhere else everybody has to have a refrigerator this space is actually designed
to take a taller refrigerator I can't have a wider or deeper refrigerator I would like one
in my traditional house this is in the basement washes and drives great
so this was also custom designed to serve me obviously I was never
probably going to sleep in that Loft but it's designed so that it counts
into the room this grade of cant I I actually could climb this [Music]
this is a drop down table and originally I used this for my eating table and it's made from a
Live Edge cherry I didn't have anywhere to put my desk and I really like this desk for this reason
it opens up and it opens on both sides so theoretically I could sit six at it so it's
it's a a good option for a tiny house that bench which folds down is also made from a piece of the
paneling from my traditional house in angels Haven I have as you can see 21 inches of hanging space
and a three-drawer dresser and then next to this structure there's a three drawer wicker dresser
that's the entirety of my wardrobe so I scaled down from 16 feet of hanging clothes to 21 inches
that's tiny living at its finest these stairs were custom designed for me because I have a disability
ordinary stairs can be a challenge for me these stairs have a somewhat shorter rise and a somewhat
longer run and so it's a very natural walk and then they put this platform there so that I could
study myself before I took the last step now it's my little cozy bedroom which I really like
because of the way the house is canted it's higher on the side than that side obviously
it's five feet on this side and four feet on that side this room is sort of an encapsible of my life
this bookcase was made by my great grandfather for my oldest sisters but I have all the pictures
that were on my mantle in my traditional house on the bookshelf in my tiny bedroom
this was my son's first musical instrument it's a German instrument now he plays banjo
and guitar so he moved on but it's quiet up here I have an east facing window so I can see
the sunrise and it's really very peaceful and I appreciate the fact that I have a separate space
so this is the sitting room
people are tall you know they say oh it's soap but once you get in you're fine it's
perfect for me I mean but I have people in here that are not height impaired and
this is sort of a mixture of old and new I have an Amish table I have an antique table
to me it's comfortable some people would say it was claustrophobic but I like it
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I had never lived in a community before the people that live in parked out the
bay are pretty special people and I certainly did not expect that [Music]
what do I enjoy most about living tiny it's really literally like living in a
nest and I think that's what I like best about it the fact that it's comforting
thanks for watching this week's video I hope you guys enjoyed it please make sure that you
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