In today's episode of tiny tours,
we traveled to one of the most scenic places in the USA, Southern Utah.
Here you'll meet one young couple who started a unique hotel featuring
spectacularly themed tiny homes situated just outside of Zion national
park.
This labor of love story became a family business that now captivates and
inspires some of the USA most adventurous visitors.
Let's go check it out.
Sam and I, we met on the internet.
I was doing school and he was living down here in Southern Utah when he was a
little boy.
He dreamed of having a place that he could homestead in and just go off grid
and he loves, you know, being out in nature. And so he,
he used to talk to me about that when we finally got married, you know,
we kinda gave up our dream.
We bought into that corporate American lifestyle.
Our first year was really difficult.
It weighed down on us having all those bills and having that big mortgage was a
huge responsibility and stressor.
And so we just thought something has to change.
I was working a regular job doing warehousing.
It was quite stressful on me physically, mentally, everything,
and it paid the bills,
but I wondered why I was spending all of my money for the box I was living in.
So I thought, you know what? There's this whole tiny house thing going on.
It's just such a good way to get rid of your mortgage, to own your own house,
and the only thing you have to sacrifice is space.
You don't really have to sacrifice any of the modern conveniences other than the
amount of space you have. So we thought, why not sell our house,
downsize to a tiny house and buy a nice piece of land out in the country and
live there?
Sam had this dream of this little property.
I went to see it and it was like nothing. There was no water, no electricity,
no septic. It was just a big desert.
At the time we were building our tiny house,
our tiny house started getting some traction and everybody's like, Hey,
how much to rent your tiny house for a few nights? And we're like, wait, no, no,
no. This is meant for us to live in.
But everybody started asking us that and so it all kind of fell on our lap
to start doing the tiny houses.
Built the ark thinking that we were going to live in it and then we ended up
renting it.
It took a while for us to build, but we really, we put a lot of love into it.
And so in each beam when we built it, we wrote unity,
love, you know, acceptance. When you walk into our home,
you feel that positive energy in our tiny house,
it has the most peaceful, wonderful feeling at night,
especially when you're just looking out at the big windows out of the stars
building that tiny house strengthened our marriage.
I was able to see his talents and I was able to really
appreciate like what he's good at and how we can both work together.
It took us two years, so it took a lot longer than we had expected.
But it's so rewarding to basically finish something together and
just look back and, and just see that it's beautiful, that people appreciate it.
It's a symbol I think, of how we've grown, you know?
And how we've learned to appreciate each other and our differences and how,
how to work well together.
So the tiny house has like 26 trusses that curvature up on the
roof that Sam cut by hand each one, you know,
26 trusses, but it looks really nice.
It actually maximizes the space up on the loft.
I wanted those French doors and the Bay window because those are the little
things that I've always wanted in a dream house.
The house that I'm sitting in right now is the guardian angel.
It's a 26 feet long trailer by eight and a half feet wide.
It's all electric inside, which makes it nice and convenient. It's beautiful.
It's got huge windows. The view's amazing
it's got the very sleek, modern look inside full-size kitchen,
modern appliances oven and a loft for sleeping and a full sized bathroom.
we have a company from Oklahoma build this one and bring it to us.
We had the house delivered on just the bare piece of land.
We had the utility set up behind it, water, sewer, power,
the water on all the houses. Just hooked up with a,
with an RV hose with a heater for the winter and the sewer is hooked up to a
septic system that we have running throughout the space.
This house belongs to my mother,
mother-in-law, Lily's mom.
Sam had quit his job at the warehouse and we started getting kind of nervous
and so my mom, she saw that we were, you know,
stressed out and she really wanted to help us and she decided to invest some
money on a tiny house and my parents became our advocates and my mom was the
first person that really believed in us and she donated, you know,
her last cent to help us in this project.
And there was a time where we felt like we put her in a tough
spot because my dad got really sick.
We just felt horrible that she had given us this money.
We had bought this tiny house and we put her in a tough spot.
This home, it's her guardian angel.
The day that we posted her tiny house within like a week,
the whole house was booked solid for a month to us
this home is so special.
We named it the guardian angel because it is overlooking the
guardian angel peak of Zion national park.
We just thought it was a perfect name because it's the guardian angel to my
parents.
It now helps pay for my dad's medical bills and it's just been a huge
blessing because it's really helped my parents out.
So I want to share with you about our mother.
Mother Eve to me is the first strong female in
ancient scripture and to me, she was wise.
She knew that she needed to go out and experience life.
Mother Eve is Sam's mom's tiny house,
so she decided to go in on this purchase because we couldn't afford it.
When we saw it,
it was a little over our budget and we just didn't have the money and so she
wanted to help us out as an investor and it's been a hit.
I mean, it's beautiful. When we showed it to her with that pitched roof,
that tutor style, Oh, she just fell in love with it.
To me,
it's a very feminine home because inside it has this gold champagne
bronze. It's just beautiful. And so I thought, Ooh,
pink and gold and green kind of look like work. Well,
so you see that theme inside the home, the trees,
the flowers, that kind of defines it with mother Eve theme
with our rentals up here,
we decided to increase the living space by building a deck outside that has more
square footage than the interior of the tiny house.
We provide the outdoor furniture, gazebos, barbecue grill,
and all the things outside umbrellas table everywhere to sit and enjoy
outdoors. A lot of our guests just tend to sit outside and enjoy the outdoors.
As long as the weather's fair,
we are actually about 15 minutes away from the closest town.
When you arrive here to the Oasis,
you'll realize that we're set up on a little Mesa and it kind of sets us apart
from the world. Here we have 75 acres of property currently.
The guests can roam around, go for walks, enjoy the scenery,
and it's a great place to get away, to be outside,
to be away from people and for just enjoying the beauty of the sky of
nature,
enjoying a nice fire and the fire pit and sitting around with loved ones or
family and enjoying yourself.
I understand why it affects people the way it does.
There's something so serene about the mountains here and the views and it's,
it's the feeling of the place that really is the thing that's my favorite part.
Coming soon
in the future we're looking to expand a little bit while,
continue to keep the spacing of our units for the natural beauty and for the
privacy of guests.
I hope to have this place be a place where people can come and just feel
nature and the tranquility and the silence, the beauty of earth.
You know, we've had a lot of obstacles. We've had a lot of things happen to us,
but we persevered and people really seem to like our creations and we're
so grateful for that.
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