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today's video we're going to meet Richard and Cassie who traded their City apartment for a
tiny home in the country this plant-filled tiny home was custom designed and built by
Richard and Cassie themselves and there are so many personal and clever elements inside
and they have a ton of knowledge to share with you we toured a lot of tiny homes before we built
ours and that was something that was really important to us is not feeling like we were
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hi I'm Cassie and I'm Richard and we're excited to show you our home The Duchess
before we moved into our house we lived in an apartment we really wanted to get out of
the city we sat and looked at our apartment and how much empty space was in it and just
went why are we paying for this we can be better than this we can do things differently and make
our house fit us instead of trying to fit ourselves into a house that already exists
so we decided to go with a 30 foot long trailer it's fairly on the larger end of some tiny
homes but this was going to be our permanent residence and it was just those size that was
able to accommodate not only us to living in the home but our three dogs and two cats
we started the build process we moved into a fifth wheel on her dad's property and we literally just
kind of set up shop and had our trailer next to the fifth wheel and just started building uh every
minute extra time we had it was an incredible experience and took a lot of hard work and sweat
and tears to get that done we have been living in our tiny house for about a year and a half now
one of the beautiful things about tiny homes is the ability to really create this space that's
going to be comfortable for you moving into a tiny like a caterpillar making its cocoon it's
special to you and it's really going to be a place for you to grow into the best version of yourself
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here we are on the outside of our home The Duchess one of the big things you'll see
immediately is the really teal color that we put on the exterior and it just kind of
brightens everything up and it gives it a really cool look with the cedar shake that we did below
it's called Fancy cuts it kind of gives that really cool like dragon scales to the home
this is built on an Iron Eagle Trailer it's 30 feet long by eight foot wide our home is
actually around 14 foot tall so it's oversized we installed 15 windows in the home we kind of
made that a really big priority to open up the inside and add a lot of natural light
coming in they're mostly all functioning so we can open them up when it gets warm we want
fresh air so that was really good about you know adding that many windows in this house
another thing we love is our Cedar deck that we installed it adds amazing amount of useful
space outside because we love just hanging out out here in nature and just taking in fresh air
let's head around back and I'll show you the utility closet
so here we are at the wired closet or our utility closet we frame this
out just to store our hot water heater and some of our other filters kind of give you
look from the inside we used a Renee tankless water heater it's an on-demand water heater and
it allows us to use multiple fixtures at once and it keeps up with that you know a
seven eight gallon per minute demand so that's really great so here we have a two-stage water
filter it goes through a five micron filter into a carbon filter and this helps sediment not get
back into the water heater and also cleaning the water into you know being able to drink it foreign
welcome to the inside of our tiny home we went with a really open layout just to let it breathe
in here and that's why we also added all these gorgeous plants up top we have a solid two dozen
of them maybe we could use a couple more I don't know you tell us they just bring a lot of life to
the space on a lot of color we just really enjoy nature and you know in the darker winter months
it's nice to have something inviting inside that reminds you of being able to go Outdoors
so one of the main features of our home is our kitchen it's 13 feet long and that just allowed
us to get everything that we wanted in here because it's such an important space for us
we went with a lot of cabinets we actually did need to maximize our storage space and that's why
we didn't really go with any floating shelves and we just kind of went across the board the color
of the cabinets matches our outside so it brings some of that body color from the exterior into the
interior I think it just goes well overall with this black walnut countertops as well this black
walnut is a really good surface it is spendy but the warp that it brings into the house we really
enjoyed so we kind of splurged on this item it's finished with a organic product so it's all food
grade it just makes it for a durable surface we were really particular about what kind of stove
we wanted because we wanted it to be Tiny But Mighty basically so we did go kind of big on
that but not giant I think the most heavily used thing in our house might just be this teapot we
always have something going either coffee tea it definitely sees a lot of use and it was a very
thoughtful gift from my parents parents so one of the things we love about our kitchen is this
30 inch farmhouse sink it's really deep it's a lot wider than you typically see in a tiny home going
from a 24 to a 30. great addition that we are very happy to have and obviously one of the big things
an entire home is storage so one cool thing for a utensil drawer is adding a slide to the drawer box
and it kind of adds a double layer here and so you can have all your utensils up top and then
more utensils below all within the same drawer so it adds a really cool functionality to it and even
behind the cabinet doors you can have pull outs that can store all your cans neatly so it's a much
more usable space and easy to operate one of my favorite is here in the spice rack cabinet we're
able to uh you know easily pull out some slides and just get to the spices we need and super handy
so here on the opposite side of the kitchen is the stairs there's one thing that is just
kind of a little pet peeve of ours is the look of most fridges what we did in our
design process was stick it into the stairs which allowed it to kind of be tucked away
a really big benefit of that was adding this TOP Step which is a lot wider than individual
Treads it feels a lot more safe getting in and out of this Loft with this bigger step
the stairs have quite a bit of storage that's where a lot of our storage is on this side of
the house the bottom row or stores shoes we have some tea drawers here in the little ones
as well just more storage Behind These doors all right we can move back into our closet area
the tough thing in tiny homes is where do you store all of your wardrobe and all of your laundry
for this reason we built out quite a big space for that and dedicated this to kind of a his and hers
kind of split which is great for me and my wife I know she has plenty of area this is three foot
wide of an area to hang your clothes as well as on the other side and then we also have divided
drawers here so four drawers of for each here on this left side is a all-in-one washer dryer
it is an LG 4.2 cubic foot it's fairly large the all-in-one washer dryer is great to have it
is more compact than having a double the drying capabilities you kind of have to learn and live
with it takes a lot longer than a standard dryer so just no going into it that this is going to
be kind of a learning curve to you know live with the all-in-one but at the end of the day I mean it
does what it needs and and it's great to have in the house all right let's check out the bathroom
first things first are composting toilet we went with the Nature's head we find it
really functional and it's enabled us to be able to be a little more flexible with
parking so we don't have to have sewer hookups those aren't always available
we really like the warm tones of copper so you'll see that that's what we used pretty
much throughout the house on all of our fixtures particularly on our fabulous sink here we found
this as a Craigslist find so we were really excited about that and that is actually I think
the first thing that we bought for the house and we stuck with it so obviously it was a good choice
one of the probably flashiest things in our house is going to be our Fabulous Five foot shower we
worked to find a large format tile that would be closely colored to our really teal that you
see throughout the rest of the house we switched things up in the shower pan on the floor there to
a hexagon tile feels pretty good on your feet Seas while you're in there and one big functional thing
that you can't really see but has made a huge difference in our shower staying put together as
using an epoxy grout instead of a more traditional grout this enabled us to move our house without
having any cracks in our grout or our tile it's a lot more flexible than a standard grout with
just as much hold so we think that really made the difference we also did this whole custom
shower curtain system up here that we need out of basic plumbing supplies and we designed that
and fitted it all together we think it came out really great and it's really functional
welcome to the office this is a really great space we originally
designed this to be an additional set of stairs to go to our storage Loft
after all of that we decided we hated it so I work from home all five days of the week and I really
appreciate this ergonomically designed workstation my fun little yoga ball under here to keep me busy
the first main focal point of our living room is our beautiful bookshelf we currently have
all of our books color coordinated we're not weird this was specifically designed with our
existing books in mind so you'll notice that it comes really close on top of them because
we wanted everything to fit and fit nicely down below this you'll see our fireplace
this is propane operated and it is off grid which is really nice it's just got a little
battery that runs the ignition so if the power is out we can still stay nice and toasty warm
all of our little critters like hanging out with us on the sofa we made it as big as we
possibly could so there was room for all of us we custom made the boxes underneath of the sofa
as well as the cushions themselves and we really like the Bay Area over here it just
really opens things up and brings the outdoors in and it gives us a really beautiful view
two more things that I'd love to show you while we are here first off we've got my piano up on
the wall here in the place of honor makes it nice and accessible so I actually practice on it so I'm
glad to have it there and then secondly you will see our in-house surround sound up top here it's
really great if we're wanting to watch a movie if we're jamming on something having a cleaning
party and just kind of want to have something to get down to while we're getting our chores done
this is our dining area this is a solid slab of local black walnut that we shape down ourselves
and we spend a lot of time here then this is where we sit down to actually have our
meals in addition to that we're in a really great spot for a wildlife so we have some
hummingbird feeders and other types of bird feeders out front along with our pollinator
garden and we just like to sit here and kind of observe what's going on outside
I think the most sparkly thing you will find in our house is our ceiling fan and that was our
one little over the top thing that we decided to add the airflow is really important so we're going
to do a ceiling fan no matter what but when we spotted this guy on Craigslist we had to have it
all right let's head up to the bedroom
the first thing you're going to notice as soon as you get up here is our amazing Skylight you can
see I am able to sit up comfortably and Richard is also able to do that it has much more significant
5 foot 11. so it was really important to us to have this head space and you'll notice all the
windows too and it just makes it feel really open we toured a lot of tiny homes before we built ours
and that was something that was really important to us was not feeling like we were sleeping in
a coffin we sleep in a full-size bed we have only ever had that size so we didn't feel like
we were losing anything by keeping that up here you will see over in the corner that Richard has
quite the substantial collection of bolo ties we found those in a variety of different places but
it's kind of like a fun adventure hunting for them wherever we go since you know we needed
more space for plants we have this great half wall over here so we have four more plants on
top of that it also provides a great opportunity for storage and on the off chance that somebody
wants to hang out and spend the night it also gives us a measure of privacy as well
foreign we are Beyond excited to have the parking spot that we have right now we got lucky through a
friend of a friend basically who was looking for someone to rent an RV spot outside of Portland
so we're pretty conveniently located to things and so that was definitely a blessing for us
Welcome to our garden this is a really big difference for us this year we started out
probably three years ago with little herbs in our apartment Window and it feels like we've
come a really long way from there we have a lot of varieties of things in here because
we wanted to do a lot of food preservation this year have a lot of options for Fresh
Foods throughout the growing season so you'll see that we've got a lot of lettuces we have
plants that help our pollinators so they want to come visit our garden and help things grow
successfully and we dedicated a whole road to Pumpkin we really want to get on board
with fall this year and do some different fun recipes with that gardening is one of
our favorite pastimes it just really allows us to get to enjoy living tiny
our house took about two years for us to build and we very much perfected the process
and the materials and all the important things that went into this that's what
pushed us to start our own business and make this house our Flagship model so we
will be putting into production replicas of our house so that anybody can buy one
something that's really unique about us and our company is that we are folks that live tiny and
build tiny so we know how important the process is when you're designing your home to find out
what matters to you we take a look at what things make your life your life so that we can make your
home your home we're able to solve societal issues with lack of affordable obtainable and available
housing and we're so grateful that we can really just make a difference in our communities
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