Hi guys. Jenna here with tiny house, giant journey.
Today I'm at Westminster college in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
And I'm going to show you a tiny house that's built completely by students.
Let's go check it out.
Hi, my name is Justin Wilson.
I'm a Westminster college student and this is a Westminster college tiny house.
One interesting thing about the Westminster college tiny house is built by
students, not all Westminster college students.
Some students are from the Newcastle school trades.
Every Friday we would come and we'd help them build stuff.
They kind of gave us the easier stuff to do cause they knew we weren't,
you know, tradesman or anything like that.
One way that the borough let us keep the house here is to say that students can
live here for a short time. Uh, it had to be academic.
They're going to start tying in classes to the tiny house. So I met with a,
a class last week. Uh,
they are going to be a theater class and they were trying to figure out a way to
do a play inside the tiny house,
whether it being outside or like viewing it from the windows.
And that's one thing I think that makes this,
this tiny house unique is that not only is it a living space,
but it's also an academic space.
You have a lot of debt when you leave any college coming into a tiny house,
you could actually kind of fit the stuff you have from your dorm room in a house
and kind of just live a more simple life and cheaper life.
And I mean you can move it places so you don't have to stay in the same place
forever. It makes your life kind of flexible,
especially if you have a flexible career path.
So I'm actually about to move into this house.
I'm going to be the first one ever.
I really want to kind of work out the kinks so I can help the students that are
coming in next to kind of get an idea of how they can live in here and have a
successful time.
So this is the inside of the Westminster college tiny house,
or I like to call it the Dub C tiny house. Um, this is the couch.
It actually has a lot of storage underneath so you can pull that out and have
stuff stored under there. And it also pulls out to be a mattress,
a full size bed.
I definitely want to have a game night or monopoly night or something.
I'm more of a life kind of guy. I don't know.
We have a heater right here, a propane heater. I know these guys,
these guys get pretty hot, so excited about that.
Nice and warm here in Western Pennsylvania.
The staircase actually has storage is built inside of it,
so you can kind of keep everything you have so you don't,
you don't have the hang stuff,
you can kinda just fold everything and put it in there. Um,
I have a lot of shoes, so I plan on, you know,
trying to use most of this to fit some of my shoes. I'm,
I'm trying to cut myself down to a certain amount of shoes while I move in. Um,
so this is, yeah, this,
the stairs are definitely one of the most unique parts of the,
of the tiny house. Um,
you need that you need to have.
You need to save space. So this is the bathroom. Um, I'll start over here.
We have our nature head composting toilet that has not been used yet.
It's going to be fun I think. I don't know. It's good.
It's kind of a whole new journey for myself. Um, this is the sink.
We've got a full sized sink in our bathroom, uh,
works and everything perfectly fine. Uh, and we've got the shower,
we got a nice towel, shower, a regular standard sized shower. Uh,
hopefully I don't look like elf in this. I don't think I will. Um,
I mean it's about right, the right height.
I'm excited. I'm excited. I think that, you know, being,
I'm honored also to be the first person.
I'd never thought I'd be the first person to move into this tiny house,
even before I move it. Everyone's like, so dude, you live in a tiny house.
And I'm like, yeah, I guess.
When I first saw this, I'm like,
this is the coolest part of the house is the sliding door here.
You don't see a barn door every single time you go into a house. I mean it's,
I think it's awesome. So the kitchen, um,
one of my favorite places in the house, I like to cook.
My mom always cooked, so I like to cook. We got a crockpot,
but you could basically cook anything and then you could do anything.
We got our stove top electric stove top and we got some nice drawers for,
you know, totally different appliances and stuff like that. Okay.
You're working sink. It's a little small, I think, you know, it's tiny house,
a tiny sink. Uh, hopefully we get some tiny dishes. Uh,
we've got our nice rack here. Um,
got a refrigerator that has an electric refrigerator. We've got our microwave,
but the plans are to get a toaster toaster oven. Um, we'll see.
I basically really only cook for myself, so I really don't need that much.
I've learned just living in apartments and stuff to like, you know,
safe space and kind of, I think this is going to be a little bit smaller,
but I think I'll be okay. So this is the loft up here.
It's actually carpeted, which makes it nice. I think, you know,
kind of makes me feel a little more homey, a little warm. Um,
this is the bed. I'm just a standard twin size bed.
Actually I think it says a tall twin size bed if you like to sleep in small
little areas. I mean it's cozy
I bunked with a few guys last year and this is,
this is more room than I had when I was bunking with them.
I mean there's a few nights, you know,
you hit your head and just like fall back to sleep and just forget about what
you were trying to do.
So are you worried about anything moving into a tiny house?
I think one of the strangest things is going to be is going to the bathroom in
the composting toilet doesn't flush.
So I mean there's a little twisty thing you that you know twist,
it kind of mixes that around I guess the mixer.
But I definitely think that it's a, it's a good solution for anyone.
It doesn't matter if you're young or old,
but definitely for young people like myself who are trying to push their career
forward and you know,
don't want to have to pay like $2,000 in a mortgage every month or I don't know
how much a mortgage is, I haven't paid one yet.
So just being around this tiny house makes me kinda even want to live in one
after college. I think.
if you want to live a cheaper lifestyle but still live in a nice environment and
still be very comfortable? I think a tiny house is the way to go.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video.
I think it's fantastic what young people are doing in the tiny house movement,
and it can be a real solution for alternative housing for people coming straight
out of college. Make sure to like, share and subscribe,
and until next time I'll see you guys later.