hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i feature tiny homes and unique home tours
one of my favorite things about tiny homes is that they can be used in a variety of different ways
so i've shown you how they can be used for full-time living part-time residences
as vacation homes or rentals as a place for a small business and even as a backyard cottage for
your mother-in-law but never have i shown you how a tiny house could be used as a home addition to a
small house on a foundation that is until today we're gonna meet a family of five who needed to
expand their living space quickly so they decided to buy a tiny house park it as close as they
could to their small home and use it as two extra bedrooms and a bath for their two eldest children
this allowed the kids to have a little bit of privacy but also keep the family close together
and that's really important to this family in particular grandparents
parents and children all live on the same plot of land where they tend to the animals
and also have community areas this type of multi-generational living is not something
that you see very much in the united states anymore and i think it is truly inspiring
we are the dolan's family and we're excited to show you our kichi casa
brett and i moved out here onto the property about 19 years ago built this carriage house it's about
1200 square feet and at the time it was just the two of us and then you know three kids came
for years we were feeling the squeeze in our house and sharing rooms and it's fine when kids
are little but the older they get it gets harder it was a lot of time and money and permitting to
do an addition our brains were sparked with the option of doing a tiny house as an extra bedroom
for me this has really been the absolute perfect answer i mean it's exceeded our expectations
so this is kind of their little refuge so it's worked out beautifully it still is close and it is
attached to our house now so it still feels like part of the house but also like a little separate
we kind of approached it as you know we're doing bedrooms that's really our main need and so we
wanted to do it very simple and basic we saw the potential of how cool these tiny houses could be
and the fact that this is their little project they were really excited about the actual space
our builder came in with kind of a lower end of the budget for us
and when all was said and done it was about 67 000.
it took about six months for the builders to complete the project
from the time we put the deposit down until they delivered it to our house
here we are standing outside of our tiny house bedroom and we're
super excited to show you the inside so come on in
as i kind of looked at tiny houses online and saw they could be really cool and customizable
i started getting really excited so when we decided for sure that we wanted to go ahead
and start building a tiny house i got to be there for the meeting between the tiny house builder and
his wife and they helped us customize it and design it so that it would best fit our needs
and i got to kind of help design my loft and how high i wanted the ceiling to be and all of that
so here i am in my tiny bathroom we have a nature's head composting toilet
we have a pretty good sized corner shower and then we also have our sink and vanity back here
and we were able to get a pretty good sized bathroom in our tiny house i'm
used to not having a huge bathroom so it's been a pretty easy adjustment for me
one thing that comes with living in a tiny house is finding storage and unlikely places under the
stairs that lead up to my bedroom loft we have a lot of storage my sister has her little closet
here and then i have my closet under the top step here i feel like i have pretty much enough room
for clothes but i can't have like a limitless amount of clothes i definitely need to always
be kind of getting rid of some so now we're gonna go up and look at my loft
this is my bedroom i have a full-size bed in here
and as you can see i barely have enough room to set up but it does make it a little bit cozier
i have this nice window that looks out over my neighbor's farm i can see their silo so that's
really cool and then i also have a lot of storage over here i can keep most of my clothes there
and i have a nice shelf the thing i like about a loft is i feel like this is a great space to be
away from my family if i need a little break and i loved decorating it it was really fun to kind of
choose my decorations it was like my first space that i wasn't sharing with my sister so when i
was deciding on how to decorate my loft i definitely used a lot of pinterest ideas i
bought a lot of things off of etsy and then i also have this really cool picture of my
great great grandma who lived in kansas she's an inspiration to me because she was the first
female in our family to go to college over here i have my ecosphere and it has brackish shrimp
living in it and they are self-sustainable so basically the algae in their water creates oxygen
and it's also food for them so it's really cool they're a self-sustaining ecosystem
so now we're on the opposite end of the house and this is where my sister's room is she has
a ground level room out her window she can see the goat so she really likes that and it was
important to her to have a closed off space so she has a pocket door if she needs privacy or quiet
so this is our hangout loft it's just an extra space for us to chill a lot of things that we
like to do up here is reading we also love listening to the rain in here because it has
a metal roof so you can hear the rain really well these sofa cushions that i'm sitting on they turn
into beds so when i have my friends over if they wanted to spend the night they could sleep up here
raising kids out here you know they have chores and animals
so we just made the decision as a family this is our lifestyle
we share responsibilities we help each other we do things together i think this is probably how
families were meant to live the lifestyle really fits what we love and what we value
the girls threaten that they'll never move away so they really love this place this land
i mean it has shaped who they are i guess goals of being out in this area is to create community and
draw people in and connect people you know how can we use what we have to help others
welcome to our farmet i'm going to give you a little tour of our home so this property
my dad bought in 1975 so i actually had the privilege of growing up here
you will notice our goats here our first batch of babies came during covid so we started a little
something called covid relief goat therapy and we put a sign up on the road neighbors would come and
just be with the goats and the babies and it was very therapeutic especially during covid lockdown
it was an amazing year of just community and people being together especially during covid and
they brought such joy so this is janet she's our little silky we have too many chickens to count
and we have two turkeys we do eat meat so we like to teach the kids where meat comes from and just
how to raise them our girls do 4-h so they show the chickens at fair and so kind of multi-purpose
we love our chickens the roosters aren't our favorite they're loud but they are beautiful
my dad built this about 10 years ago as a place for meals and gathering it's a really beautiful
peaceful area often at night we'll have a bonfire and just sit out at night and watch the stars
behind this place is the orchard with all the fruit trees so we have apple tree
and plum tree so this is our house in the back of the property we had it put in about 19 years ago
right outside our back deck is the pond
and also behind our house is bunny town and that's where the girls keep their bunnies that they show
at 4-h this is bunnytown we have 15 rabbits here we use them for a lot of different things there
are pets me and my sister show them in 4-h and it all started when we got two mini rexes given to us
and now it's grown into this whole little farm so rabbits are definitely my first kind of passion in
the animal world so this is misty she is about five years old she's a netherland dwarf rabbit
she was given to me by a family that was moving overseas so they could no longer keep her and one
thing that i really like to do with my rabbits other than showing them in 4-h is we take them
to a lot of kids birthday parties easter egg hunts and we just think the community really likes them
because it's still a mobile unit we can kind of repurpose this space for another
need at a later date some of the things we've talked about is using it as an office space
or a guest house maybe our daughters could take it to college and use it as a residence so it gives
us a lot of flexibility and versatility when we made an investment in this little addition
we can use it many ways for the future thank you for watching this week's video make sure to like
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