hey there welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes today
we're traveling back to incredible tiny home Village in Tennessee which we've actually done
a tour of before so if you're interested in seeing that make sure you check out the link
in the description but not before seeing a tour of this beautiful tiny home with an enormous sun room
now to the tiny house purist this tiny home may not seem tiny but to the average American
the owner is living in just a quarter of the space of a traditional home Gloria is going to
take us through her beautiful tiny home and explain why she decided to downsize and how
this affordable lifestyle has changed her life if you like these kind of videos please make
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publish a new tour but right now let's check out Gloria's beautiful tiny home [Music]
hi my name is Gloria welcome to Tiny Taj [Music]
thank you
before I moved into this tiny house I was living in a house
that was about almost 1800 square feet I didn't lose a whole lot of the house
and so I started to figure out I don't really need this much space
I had my house built by incredible tiny homes I accidentally landed on a video of Randy's I
just kept following him and started getting interested and started dreaming of designs
I designed this tiny house to every one of my likings I chose just what I needed just what I
used every day in the big house there's nowhere in this house that you feel cramped nowhere
I also landed one of the incredible tiny homes original deals where I got two years free rent
when my two years are over I'll pay 200 a month after that I pay 25 a month for water and I pay
my own electric compared to what I was paying in California it's a drop in the bucket [Music]
this is my brand new tiny house the original house is 10 by 32 so it's pretty roomy but
there were some pieces of furniture I just did not want to leave behind
I added a sun porch which is 12x21 just to suit that furniture [Music] foreign [Music]
here we have where I spend most of my time this is where I watch my tiny house videos
my cooking videos movie night every morning my friends come by about 8 30 9 o'clock and
we have coffee until 10 30. sometimes we end up at cocktail hour in the evening too it's
just a great place to meet up I had this sun porch built specifically so that I could have
all this furniture that I didn't want to leave behind it's so comfortable it makes
for good living just because you're going tiny doesn't mean you can't have good living
this chair here is amazing you'll never want to get out of that chair ever again
and the couch is holding my two babies the little white one that's Belle and that's
buddy I live alone so having these two by my side nothing like it when you own a dog and
they are so loving unconditional love they're just comfort that you just can't get anywhere
now here we have my Christmas tree who I lovingly call my lady I got a dress form
I got a petticoat form and then I wired the Garland to it and decorated it on my own I
love it and so does everyone else who's seen it I've decided I'm going to keep it all year I'll
decorate her for Halloween Easter she's going to turn out to be a fun accessory for my living room
and then here you know a girl has to have her shoes so here
it's my shoe rack okay out of the way very unobtrusive but hides every bit of my shoes
I've only got 12 that are in there there's a couple texts somewhere else follow me I'll
show you the original tiny house we'll leave the sun portion go inside [Music]
okay welcome to the inside of my tiny house [Music] behind me we have my bed area I've got
a fireplace I've got a queen size bed and behind the curtains is a 5x5 picture window [Music]
on this side I've got what's known as a Randy rack
pulls out so I keep all my food for cooking I've got two of those
and then under the bed I've got two drawers that are three foot wide
five foot deep that I keep canned goods and things that I'm cooking
then over here I have some food storage different things I want to keep on hand
up here on the other side is where I keep I like to can food so I keep like I made some
green salsa for my garden I love these big jars it's where I keep everything
that I use all the time my sugars my oats it comes in really handy in my coffee bar
and of course my mints for my chocolate friend of mine just bought me a whole bunch of these thanks
Tula here I keep all my pots and pans I didn't want to take up a lot of room pots and pans are
so deep and so I just put some artificial wood up there and hung my knives in my pots and pans and
it just really made a lot of room a lot of space for me and right here I have Bal and Buddy my son
did these watercolors for me he's an artist he lives in New York okay let's check out my kitchen
we'll start by showing you my hot tub oh I mean my kitchen sink it's actually big enough for a
hot tub I I like big farm sinks and this was the biggest one that I could fit in here it's
made of crushed granite I love it and then I do a lot of cooking but I don't have a cooktop
I use induction cooktop I'll set my instant pot here my cooktop I have also a gas cooktop [Music]
when I'm done I put it away in the storage that's in the sun porch works
out fantastic and then I of course I've got a dishwasher girls got to have her dishwasher
put a shelf up there because when I'm emptying the dishwasher I used to have to go all the way
across and put them away in the cabinets and I decided nope I want them right there I saw it in
somebody else's house and I really like the idea and this is where I keep my Berkey Water Filter I
had to have my pot filler right here because now I don't have to move it or I don't have to bring
a pitcher just open it fill it up easy that I have a full-size refrigerator and freezer I
would open it but you'd cringe it's jam-packed for one person but I do cook a lot and I have friends
over all the time to eat I mean I cook a lot here are my seasonings I've got one drawer here
this ottoman is full of bulk seasonings I like food I haven't met a food yet I didn't like
now above me is a special ladder built for me it was a prototype it
hooks up here on the wall if you use the right amount of pulleys it's very easy
foreign I got it set just right that it just misses the chair
it's just strictly a storage Loft for things that I don't use every day [Music]
I have a full-size washer and dryer they were side by side on pedestals but I just attached
a stacking kit and they became stackables I converted them to propane in these cubes
here that's where I keep all my bathroom items and then I have an LED mirror it's very nice
now this is a closet area where I was living in California I measured my closet I didn't want
to have to throw away a bunch of clothes so I measured it and I had them build exactly what
I had so I have this cubicles with baskets that's why I keep all my pants folded up
keep all my things in here I use it for hanging clothes I have got drawers at the bottom for
other clothes when I do the laundry which I just got done doing I have my hangers out
okay now we'll step into my shower everybody wants to go in the shower
this is a four by six foot walk-in shower extremely luxurious you can't have anything
better it's really nice the water doesn't go out into the other room because of the length of the
wall so you don't have any issues with fogging up your mirror I've got a Japanese soaking tub
in the corner here that you just inflate it set it over the drain you can soak as long
as you want and then just release it to the drain I've got a little four inch lip on the doorway so
the water never goes out anywhere this is just amazing the walls are 12 by 24 ceramic tiles
Poly on the ceiling that's the bottom of the Loft up above and the window if
you really needed to let in any air or let out any condensation you could do it there
but I don't really do that much because that handles way too high for me and now I'll show
you the bathroom area I've got a separate door and this would be the bathroom area
and this is where my tankless water heater hides I believe this bathroom is probably
three by four it's just enough that you're not too tight and that you're not wasting extra space
now we can go into my garden which is my own little Paradise I created for myself
these tubs along this perimeter of my lot here that's where I do all my gardening
here's where I grow my herbs because it's closest to the door My Rosemary my mint
my Thyme and this tab I was growing four different kinds of tomatoes I had yellow
tomatoes Romas it was great got Tomatoes all summer I'm also into Wildlife so I've
got my resident rabbit he has his own Outhouse so he doesn't disturb things
these up here are emerald green arborvitaes and then in the very corner is a white dogwood
I've got a patio back here for barbecuing things like that if it gets too sunny we
just pull down the big Shades and it blocks it all it's a great hangout place [Music]
and now here I created a dog pen specifically for my dogs to keep them safe we have coyotes
in the area across the street there's Bears there's mountain lions I don't want anything
to happen to my dogs so they can go from the house down the ramp I built and come
outside and do their business whenever they want to back and forth so they really enjoy
that they go in and out all the time there's my one it watches he watches for where I'm
at when I'm coming home and then he runs out here to make sure that I'm coming in foreign
going tiny it was mostly about affordability to me I'm 72 I'm on fixed income I can't afford to
buy a big house and live that grand life when I can have all those same things on
a smaller scale with only the rooms I need one of the other positive things about going tiny
for me is the community environment once I retired if I was not working I rarely saw
anyone at all here it's very Community oriented that's what it's all about
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thanks for watching this week's video I hope you guys enjoyed it make sure that
you check out our tour of incredible tiny house Village via the link in
the description and I will see you soon with another tiny or unique home tour
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