Hey guys. Jenna here with tiny house,
giant journey and I'm here at the tiny digs hotel in Portland, Oregon,
and today we're going to take a tour of the barn style tiny house.
Let's go
So this is one of the six tiny houses located at the tiny digs hotel.
All of them are 16 feet long and they all have different roof shapes.
They're available for nightly rentals.
The starting price is $145 a night and it goes up on weekends and peak season.
I've been staying in the barn style tiny house for the last two nights.
It's one of the only two tiny houses here that's dog friendly.
The tiny digs hotel is located in the Kern neighborhood of Portland, Oregon,
so there's a lot to do, some great restaurants around here.
First thing about the barn style, tiny houses,
it's got this cool Dutch door system, so this actually opens independently.
The bottom piece, pretty neat.
I'm sure it'll come in handy in the summertime and then they have these locks on
each of the tiny houses here, so you're able to feel safe.
They changed these codes for every occupant.
First thing you'll notice when you come inside there is a nice looking couch
here with storage underneath and to the other side there's a comfy sofa chair
with a cow theme that goes with the theme of the barn style tiny house.
One of my favorite things about this tiny house in particular is that it has a
hidden table that folds down. That's this.
So the way this works is it looks like a painting at first,
but actually you can unhook it from the top
and pull from the bottom. And this comes down into a table for two.
There's magnets at the bottom of the leg that will stick to the magnets on
the floor.
So this is what the table looks like when it's in the down position.
And as you can see there is another farm themed photo that is revealed behind
the table when it's down.
So you could have two people sit here and maybe one here and one here.
Have a nice little breakfast in the morning.
I love their bar stools that they've chosen. Pretty cool.
And because these are 16 feet long,
they've built out over the wheel wells to give it a little bit extra width.
That's what you're seeing here. That's where they're hiding the wheel Wells,
so they actually feel quite spacious even though these are rather tiny as far as
tiny houses go,
so all of the kitchenettes here at the tiny digs hotel have different amenities
and the foreign style tiny house actually has a toaster oven,
little coffee maker and electric tea kettle and a French press.
It also a refrigerator freezer just actually bigger than my refrigerator
freezer.
One of the best amenities is this huge farm style sink.
I mean that's just enormous for tiny house standards.
These tiny houses don't move around a lot so they can afford to use porcelain
and other heavy items that maybe you wouldn't see in a regular mobile tiny
house.
They pretty much are set to stay here at the tiny house hotel in Portland.
To my right, you can see the storage staircase.
This is really easy to climb because it is a dog friendly tiny house.
They've included a little dog dish area that slides in and out.
Continuing on, we have the bathroom,
but before we get there I wanted to show you this sliding barn door.
This is pretty cool looking. It goes with the theme,
the barn theme and it easily slides and tucks away behind the staircase.
I really like this. I wish I could implement that into my tiny house.
So as we go into the bathroom, the first thing you'll see is this awesome sink.
It's made out of an old wine barrel and the top is a hammered copper sink.
They're connected to water,
power and sewer here because they are in the city limits and they had to pull
permitting for all of those things.
So it's really easy to accommodate items that are found in a regular house such
as a flush toilet, not an RV flush toilet,
a real porcelain throne, flush toilet.
I love the little details like this is a rake that they've put up on the wall
and used for a towel rack. Works great.
So if we look to our left, we can see the full shower.
The height in here is about six five so if you're six, three or under,
you're going to feel comfortable in the shower.
It's about 36 by 36 so bigger than a normal shower.
Normal shower is about 32 by 32 inches,
so it's actually quite wide and spacious in there and they're on a hot water
tank, water heater,
so the water will stay hot for about 20 minutes and then it'll need to rest for
about 20 to 30 minutes to refuel.
This is similar to the my tiny house.
They've used this corrugated siding for corrugated metal siding for the uh,
shower.
It's an easy way to create your own shower shape if you don't want to buy the
full stall. It also gives it that barn style theme.
Okay, moving on, we'll head upstairs.
These stairs are really easy to climb and I love the hand rail that they've
included here. It's an old piece of farm equipment.
Just these little touches really helped the theme.
You'll notice that the loft is actually suspended.
It feels very secure up there and it saves you space because you can actually
walk up the stairs via this little key hole.
Look who's in bed Selise just been basking in this bed all weekend.
So this is the head room that you actually get. And when you're up in the loft,
I mean I got a full foot of height above my head and I am about five foot four.
So again, somebody who's six, three, six, four,
easily be able to sit up in bed here, um, that, that accommodates most people.
Cool. So this is the outside of the barn style tiny house.
You can see that they've hooked up to power sewer and water over here through
the city. So that will be the sewer line right there.
And they have the hose insulated for winter here and with some heat tape.
All of the porches on the tiny houses here at the tiny digs hotel are built
separately because they're not going to move these tiny houses.
They can afford to do things like that,
like have a separate porch and have the heating and cooling system on the
exterior of the tiny house. Not necessarily attached.
All right guys. So that was a quick tour of the barn,
a tiny house here at the tiny digs hotel.
I have a couple more tours coming your way to make sure to check back soon.