hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and unique homes and
showcase stories of people living alternatively in today's video we're going to meet a family of
four living in a tiny custom overlander and if you're wondering what an overlander is
it's basically a tiny home that can go absolutely anywhere so they can change
their backyard every single day if they want to and stay off grid for long periods of time
this is one family's dream life could it be yours too if you like these kind of videos make sure
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publish a new tour but right now let's meet this family and take a tour of their custom overlander
we are overland uncharted and welcome to our new rig macho
we had a beautiful piece of property in east tennessee on 11 acres we had a farm
we thought it was our forever home we thought we were going to live there have our kids there
grow old together but that didn't happen i heard this new thing over landing and
i was like wow really you can do this full time maybe we could really do this
we've been on the road now for about a year and a half we traveled for the first year
in a van that we did build out but the van didn't quite provide us with
a few things the first was space when we first started out the kids weren't quite
this big they're growing fast the second is payload we were kind of at our max with the
van couldn't add anything to our travels and then the third was four-wheel drive
curt actually had this vision like early on in our van life experience that you know one day
we're gonna build out a box truck once we sold the van then we really were kind of homeless we found
a airbnb to rent out the owner was incredible to work with he had tools of all kinds he had
the perfect workspace for us and we built this thing in about collectively around two months
the price of the truck ended up being around 65 000 the box was about 15
and the build was about 50.
our whole idea was kind of like an earth rover on a budget earth roamers you know they around
that 500 000 on up mark so i think it was a good compromise and balance for what we ended up with
our oldest is eight our youngest is five i think they were just really intrigued in the whole
process you know they think daddy is amazing superhero he can build anything and i love
that they've got a role model to look up to it was really cool and special seeing through their eyes
what manifested and transformed in front of us
all right welcome to our tiny home on wheels this is our ram 5500 and as you can see behind me
we have done quite a few modifications to it first off we did a super one wheel conversion this was a
dually so in order to make this a single one wheel we had to go with some really big tires for weight
capacity these tires will hold 6 400 pounds it is full-wheel drive and it holds 74 gallons of
diesel cost is about 350 bucks to fill this thing up i think we're still around that 10 mpg mark
around here on the front we got a bumper we got some lights in the front we got some fog lights
we got a bar light as we go up here we got a front runner roof rack
we got some action tracks boards on top extra fuel we got a couple front runner boxes on
top we got a big yakima cargo box that holds our paddle boards have these nice cargo boxes
and in this one we have an air compressor so i got this air compressor to do the build and also
it will inflate these big tires convenient plug here i can just plug this thing in we
can air the tires up so these steps we got from e-trailer they're foldable so we can fold these
up we put them here in the storage box we really like the doors and windows i think they're well
worth the price these are arctic turn doors and windows it's got a cool little system here
so the wind doesn't slam the door shut it's a dual door so you can just have this shut
to allow a nice breeze in and these just snap together now what i really like about this and
the reason that we ordered the box brand new box is the deck that was high on our priority to have
this deck and it really expands our living space this box is called a pro scape box when we got it
this door came down and actually came down at an angle and then it had a ramp inside
here that fold it down to the ground so we did as we tighten these chains up
did a little bit of modification to get it flat we added some grass the awning is a cvt awning and we
have a screen room for it so if the mosquitoes are bad we can enclose this in a screen and and still
enjoy the outside all right round of the driver's side more storage this is actually the kids
storage so i don't mess with it it's it's their storage box they put whatever they want they get
tired of their toys they'll tell me and say hey can we exchange some toys for some new ones so
really excited about this so it's their own space that something that they can take care of
all right so let's move up to the top so we got 1850 watts of solar
another thing we got on top maybe you notice we have a mini split we have a parsec antenna
for a pep wave so it's a seven in one antenna so you get two wifi's four sail antennas and a gps
so now that you've seen the outside come on in and let me show you on the inside
let's start in the kitchen this is my domain this is where i spend a lot of my time i'm the
main cook in the family so a few things were pretty essential for me to have in this build
number one being some produce baskets it's a great way to keep your produce protected out of your
pantry or your fridge so the other thing that was really important to me was a spice rack i love to
cook i like to cook with fresh ingredients and a lot of spice and flavor so i got all of those
pretty much taken up plus more in the pantry our countertop here is an acacia wood butcher block
countertop i finished it and we put it on and it turned out a little bit better than i thought it
would i wanted a river top epoxy port originally for our countertop because we had one before in
our previous rig but we didn't have time for it so i settled on these instead that i found on amazon
and they are great to help kind of break up the seam this wood is kind of unique we call it our
fancy wood this is one thing that i really wanted to just kind of break things up from
the normal plywood that we had to paint this is our home and i wanted to feel like a bit
of a cabin so this was important to me this is actually ambrosia maple wood and we got
this at a woodworker supply store in phoenix our backsplash is a stone tile it is adhesive
we actually found it at home depot we went and sprayed a waterproof sealer on top of it as well
here we decided to do another pop-out like we did in our previous build
and that was just to maximize countertop space the sink is a copper basin and i know this
sounds a little weird but it actually reminds me of where we left tennessee because i had
one that was three times this size and the kitchen that we renovated so it just kind of
grounds me reminds me where we came from looking at a copper sink i know that sounds kind of funny
we have hot water on demand our hot water heater it's actually underneath here it is a little over
one gallon and it's always on and then this big boy is our fridge so we have a 90 liter
ice co fridge freezer i keep one side as the fridge and i keep the other side as the freezer
we also have an 81 gallon fresh water tank those are the necessities
that and staying charged of course we are all electric but between all of
these things i'm pretty sure we could stay off grid for about two weeks which is great
so behind curtain number one here is our wet bath and shower we have an airhead composting toilet
and as far as our shower is concerned this is a little unique we went with these
bullfinch shower valves we've got one inside the shower here and the valve just plugs in right here
and when you turn it on it automatically mixes the hot and cold water inside and then you do have
to do a little bit of a military shower but i'm perfectly fine with that to conserve water anyways
we could not set the toilet directly on the shower pan for obvious reasons
we wanted something that allowed the water to drain through so we ended up making this platform
out of teak wood we sanded it down we sealed it real good and put a i don't know maybe four or
five coats of varnish on top of it the floors are actually original with the box yes we got the box
brand new but it came with unfinished white oak floors so i took this project upon my own hands
and sanded this sucker down we stained it went over with a poly about five times so my knees
were definitely feeling it by the time i was done but i'm super happy with the way it turned out
dual bunk beds these are the boys one child sleeps here and the next one is up there
this is where they put their little feet in to climb up it's kind of like a ladder slash
cubby hole that we designed welcome to our bunk bed my name is lucas welcome to my room
this is moomoo snakey mr moo and longneck clothes toys and more clothes
hello my name is copy they've made the mousse
this is mom and dad's bed we've got a queen bed here it is a full-size queen and that was one
of the things that we really didn't want to compromise on because sleep is important so
we were super stoked when we found that we could fit a standard size mattress behind this
wall it's a little uh deceiving you wouldn't think there's so much pack behind here but
let's start with the closet so this is daddy's closet and then this is one child's closet
and this is where we decided to keep our dirty clothes we ended up just getting some cheap
bags from like tj maxx or something and when it's time to do laundry it's easy just take those out
and out we go and here is where our mechanicals are so we've got our inverter we've got a
transformer in here below that these panels all unscrew behind this wall is where our battery
bank is we've got three server style batteries and then this door back here is where we can
access both of our dc to dc chargers we have dual dc to dc chargers because we have dual alternators
on the truck right now i only think we're needing to run one of them though it gives us sufficient
power we haven't needed to use both of them so this is my closet of course being the female
i have just naturally a little more clothes than the boys do so i got double the size that they did
in this corner this is kind of like our bench seating area and a little bit more storage we
have a little library here and this is where we keep some things that we frequently access we keep
our camera back there books that we get to often speaker and up top is where i keep a little bit
more of the boys school work and we just have like an arts and crafts little basket up here as well
this is a really simple do-it-yourself table it was important to us to
have a table not only to eat but do schoolwork and to do a little bit of
filming and editing just computer work we needed a designated space for that which we
lacked in our previous rig so that was one of the things that we really needed and we found
a really simple solution for it so all this does is unlatch we have one leg on it and it comes down
underneath our bench here we've got a couple drawers this big one houses some miscellaneous
things and then the boys have their own little toy drawer down here so another thing we're really
excited about in the box here is above my head we have a 240 volt 9000 btu and ovary mini split with
a heat pump which means we are comfortable when it's hot outside and we are comfortable when it's
cold outside we've had to use it a couple times already and it's come in super handy it's one of
those things that i'm not ashamed to have call it glamping i don't care we love it it's been a
great addition and i'm just thankful that you know we have enough power to actually run this thing
going from the van which was about 80 square feet to inside here which is like 115
15 square feet it feels like the taj mahal to me if you'd told me 10 years ago that
this is what we'd be doing i probably would have said you're crazy there's no way that
we leave society as we know it and choose this lifestyle but i wouldn't look back now
you gotta have a big house you gotta have this and that to be what happy no i think we're more
happier here than with all those things for sure this is a journey of growth growth of like
just our marriage our bond with our kids within ourselves all of it it's a growing process you
find out who you are and overall i think just become a more rounded person if you
want something in life you really got to go after it as crazy as your dreams might sound
it's attainable if you put your mind to it you can do anything
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