hey there jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny houses
and creative homes in today's video you're going to meet stephanie last year during
the pandemic she found herself out of work and with a lot of extra time so unlike the
rest of us in lockdown who spent plenty of time on our butts binge watching tv
stephanie actually did something productive she learned how to build
a custom bardo that has a ton of character plenty of personal touches and even a hint of luxury
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hi i'm stephanie and this is misty my tiny wagon
the reason why i built this tiny wagon was because i wanted to start traveling again part
of my travel i did in a van but i'm a little bit older now and so i wanted a little bit
more comfort the reason that i built this during covet was because my business went completely down
i thought to myself what do i do with my extra time this is a perfect solution for me because
it's lightweight you can pull it with a car or a truck and it is possible to build that by yourself
roof is going up i'm so excited i don't really have much of a background in building i did
remodel a couple of homes by myself i'm really handy and i just did some research on the internet
and this is what happened it turned out to cost me around fifteen thousand wherever i go
misty is a people magnet i always have people knocking at the door they want to
see it they want to talk to me about how i did that and i have met so many people
i love showing it off this is my masterpiece of course i'm proud of it
let's go on a tour come on in welcome to the inside of misty my tiny wagon she is 84 square
feet what makes it feel more spacious is because it's built at an angle with a rounded roof i'm
for 11 ish and so i'm kind of on the shorter side anyway so to me it feels huge in here in the space
i used birch plywood on the walls so very light and the ceiling as well is very thin birch plywood
i added some aromatic cedar and it smells really good in here too when you come in
luckily i bought all the wood before the prices went up i purposely placed four windows actually
on each side one so that i have airflow no matter where the wind is coming from and when i cook i
wanted to have some airflow here and i wanted to be able to look out the window i built everything
myself the only thing i didn't do is the installation of the roof and the propane gas lines
this is a three-way fridge so i can be run by gas 12 volt or 120. right now it's run by
propane both of my appliances run with propane and i really love this stove what i don't like so much
about it and i did not know when i ordered it is i only have that much space to bake
this sink is copper it's handmade i ordered it directly from egypt i have a food pump for the
water and two five gallon containers underneath for fresh water and a five gallon container for
grey water misti is completely off-grid if i fill up everything i can spend about five days
the countertop is an epoxy pour like a river table that i did myself i learned
a lot of lessons doing that because i had leaks and it leaked all over the floor
and i crawled underneath and i tried to stop the leaks and i had epoxy everywhere my hair and all
over my body so if you have questions about epoxy what not to do you can ask me would you do it
again if you could yes but not in place i would do it in a garage or a workshop and then install it
the spice rack is magnetic and mist is made in voyage all of these turned and i ended up coming
into the wagon and i had a huge pile of spices here so i haven't filled them up yet because i'm
not sure if i'm gonna use them some people wonder about the dishes and it takes me two minutes to
pack them away but i wanted space to be open the shelf allows that the whole wagon has lots and
lots of storage i really wanted that and so here i have my pots and some other kitchen knickknacks
um i splurged and i got a little spice rack in here that i love
under here is storage here i have all my tech stuff i have another power pack i have my body
heater under here i have you know cooking oils my potatoes onions this is my pantry and over here
are my toiletries so instead of just adding a curtain this has a purpose too it's a towel
just like over here i have a towel that i can dry my dishes with or my hands and underneath i have
my porta potty my flushable porta potty and my garbage and way in back there i mean i'm
short so i don't mind i have two closets where i can hang my clothes so here i have more storage
first of all two more drawers i have all kinds of knickknacks here things that i haven't even tried
yet but and on the other side i have my towels and toilet paper this is how i access my clothing
so i can pull these out this is the one on the other side
i have my pants over here i also have a pull out table here
so this is also an epoxy pour but this one was easier to deal with however i made it a little
bit too tall for me so this is what happens if i sit down i'm gonna eat like this but it's okay
originally i had planned to wire everything and i actually did wire everything and i had somebody
hired to install solar panels on the roof and he bailed out on me so what i did i
cut all the wires off stuffed them in the wall and decided to go completely mobile
so these lights these led lights are actually remote controlled at night these little led
lights is all i need it's really romantic in here and then i have rechargeable led light bulbs
and they're also remote controlled i love little gadgets like this so these are the solar panels
for the led light bulbs and the light bulbs look like this
and you just plug it in put it out in the sun and there you have light i wanted to have a little
bit of separation for the bed for the sleeping area and i thought an arch would be really nice
i was thinking about my dog ralphie and i wanted him to be able to jump up on the bed by himself
without me having to lift him up all the time so i built this little ramp for him pull it out what
i do now though instead of leveling it i put it across the chairs here and he actually can jump up
so this is my sleeping area i have a full-size mattress and it's a memory
foam mattress and it's super comfortable i'm really happy with it more storage over here
like i said i wanted to have lots of storage so here i put my underwear pajamas t-shirts
this lamp is i believe from morocco it's made out of glass and it looks very very pretty at night
now these mirrors are also from morocco
and this lamp is handmade from india so we're international here i have traveled to about 28
countries so i've traveled the world been around so when i ordered the blinds they were custom
made to order and they turned out to be a little white so i wanted to decorate them and i ordered
a mandala stencil and just painted the stencil on it the arch itself when i built it it wasn't that
hard however it needed two people to um install the the sheets the plywood sheets you know i
built it myself i'm not a professional builder so everything is slightly out of angle so i had like
gaps everywhere and i had to you know cover it all up with trim that's what trim is for
let me show you my dutch door some of the advantages of having a dutch door is that i can
close the bottom part and still have airflow and my dog can't run out so when i bought the trailer
it was a toy hauler and it had a ramp a middle ramp that i cut off but i i kept those hinges here
and added a fold out deck so when i'm driving when i'm traveling i just fold it up takes two minutes
and um i can hit the road it's very simple very easy to do it adds about 30 more square feet to
my space my living space so this is where i relax it's so comfortable i can sit here listen to music
read a book and just enjoy being out in nature so the exterior is cedar tongue and groove i did not
want to paint it because paint always peels off i wanted to have it low maintenance so i
have to add a layer of stain every year to protect the wood but other than that it's
very carefree i wanted to soften the edges here a little bit so i just came up with this cut out
i have my little swirls everywhere and they are actually really handy for hanging things i can
hang towels to dry or ralphy's leash or whatever i always set up a hummingbird feeder wherever i go
and they always find it misty is completely insulated i have four inches of insulation
in the roof and two inches in in the walls and the floor like i said storage
is really important for me so i have as much exterior storage than interior storage these jacks
i set up when i stay for a few days because it takes pressure off of the tires and the wagon
is not so wobbly there's more storage over here i store my propane bottles here and still have more
space i'll add another shelf and add something else with the propane i power my appliances
inside the fridge and the range however i also have propane gas lines on the exterior
so i can hook up my exterior oven i can hook up my portable water heater and my portable gas pipe
this is a camshaft outdoor stove and oven you have the cooking area up here
and the oven and i actually can bake a bread in here if i want to this would hook up to my outdoor
propane line this is my outdoor shower setup this is a portable water heater so this is the pump
that you put in the water and it sucks the water out runs it through the unit and heats up the
water and i have a speech it here i can use it for washing dishes and if i want to take a shower
i just connect the shower head and i can take a shower with a swimsuit on
my plan was to build a space where i feel safe and that cheers me up that makes me smile when
i enter and it does and i'm really happy about that so if you are interested in building one
if i can do it you can do it i hope you enjoyed this week's tour
make sure to tune in next week for another tiny or creative home tour