Hi I'm artisan Josh and this is Little Red 66 massive square feet and 100%
off-grid self-sustaining and eco friendly fun.
The tiny home movement as a whole embraced me. I actually was not involved
in the movement. When I first started I went with what I knew. I built myself
what I knew. When I was 9 I went to juvenile for the very first time. I was
supposed to be in a 30-day program. It's just supposed to be there 30 days, didn't
happen that way. I wound up being there for 18 months. Nobody came to pick me up. I
spent the rest of my juvenile life in and out of group homes, foster care,
institutions, and it was rough. I got stuck on a cycle. I spent a lot of time
doing the wrong thing in order to gain. Once you get behind bars it's very hard
to not stay there. When you take an individual and you put them into an
environment with the downtrodden of society, it doesn't make them better.
It doesn't rehabilitate them and it surely doesn't correct that. It teaches
you how to be worse. You have to actually want to be better. The hand was formed
and it was might and it was around my neck since I was 9 years old. I got off
probation in October of last year. It's my first time not being supervised since
I was 9. I didn't have to report to anybody. I didn't have a master. It was
always the material gain. The material goal. I need this to be successful.
I need this car and need this couch, but you really don't. When I realized that
you really don't, it made a difference in my life. I completely disavowed myself from
the routines, the structure, and I said, "I'm not going to follow your rules
anymore, I'm done." I took nothing at all and I turned it into something and when
I turned it into something it was like an explosion. It gives me a
sense of, not only sense of freedom, which is always good for a man in my position
but it gives me a sense of wonder every morning.
This is Little Red. She is a
100% eco-friendly and self-sustaining structure. She was originally built on a
1962 Apache pop-up camper frame, stripped her all the way down to the frame
refurbished and reinforced the frame and built her brand new from the ground up.
All the exterior framing and electronics, all the systems inside are brand new. All
the interiors, all hand-finished, refinished wood. With the unit this size
I don't have to worry about DLA, HOA or Do2 restrictions. I'm only 11 11 long
five and a half wide. It is designated a utility trailer.
I have 12 ply tires, that's 6,000 pounds worth of tire, on a five thousand pound
frame. The entire unit weighs less than three thousand pounds. I went for
overkill because number one: I didn't want anything to come apart while I was
on the road but number two: I wanted to be as low maintenance as possible. I have
a personal investment into this at $9,100. On the outside I have LED
lighting as well as a three camera security system. The DHOL was a sponsor
project for me. The door actually took me two and a half weeks to do. She's
completely steel-reinforced. She has a steel plate backing. She's electronic and
magnetic so you're better off sawing through the wall than really trying to
go through the door. My handle gave me a little bit of pleasure because I
actually poured this when I was 9. I was a young man and an entrepreneur sculptor.
It's been around with me for a long time so I use it as a feature point on the
house. I also have a high gain HDTV antenna for the television inside but
it's attached to the side of the house. It turns the entire house into an
antenna. I can get anywhere between 70 to 150 channels. On the back I have the
shower system and a sound system which just popped up works
great. I've only had to fill it up one time in the last six and a half
months so it's very efficient. On this side
she's Plain Jane I guess the biggest feature would be the, the window which I
personally hand etched. That took me actually three tries to get that right. The solar
system is quite unique. I did it all myself. It's actually 520 watts of solar
up top charging a 420 amp battery bank.
Now that we're inside I want to show you a little bit about the features that are
inside. First of all is the monitor for the three camera security
system, fridge-rota freezer combo, gotta have a fridge or freezer so
thermoelectric two point one cubic foot down. In front of the refrigerator is the
wet chill and the wet shelf is one of the most important things. I found in
a tiny house, moving in and out of tiny house a lot,
one of your biggest problems is dirt, the second is water, so a wet shelf is always
a great thing to have. Anything I don't know where it goes it goes into net. Come
back from the grocery store you got all those bags, stuff them up top. Got dirty
laundry, don't feel like doing the laundry today, you know stuff the
clothes up top. No worries, great thing to have. Dual pane
windows - I do have solar on them so keep them highly efficient. I
actually got all my windows reclaimed except for obviously the h1 shortwave
radio. This is my game changer. There are a lot of ham operators out there. I have
found more primitive spots with the shortwave radio than I have on any app
and if you get in trouble and get stuck out in the middle of nowhere it's a
great thing to have to let people know, "hey, I'm stuck." The
other must-have in my tiny house is obviously velcro all that stuff that
you'd normally lose or that normally jiggles around or normally gets lost
inside of your couch cushions I can stick em on my wall. Up top
ceramic heater. In about five minutes this heater has this 66 square foot so
hot you'll sweat out of it. It's all R34 all the way around in the insulation so
it stays comfy. I've had it in New York in the winter and I've had it in Arizona in
the summer. A lot of storage that I don't use. I actually think I have too much
stuff. I keep all my dry goods in a cabinet here and I keep all my cleaning
/ extra stuff in here. My closet is a simple being.
It's very easily rolled up. My white tux which of course everybody always has a
fitted white tux, right? Yeah, compost toilet. It is a phenomenal invention. If
you're in a tiny house no smell no waste no worries about throwing anything out
or getting rid of anything. You don't have to go to Aubrey Park to dump it. If
you're going tiny, go compost. So now we get to the fun part. Now we get to the
entertainment volume. The sink is actually an instant hot water on demand. I've drawn
the 40 gallon tank up front and I have yet to run out of water. My house
I have a GE water filtration system on this sink too so that you get your hot
water, your cold water, and then you can get your clean water. By far the best
idea I have ever had putting a washer and dryer in here. Do you know how much
money it costs to wash and dry a load of clothes on the road? It's ridiculous.
At least seven bucks! My kitchen storage underneath there. I have a three
burner coleman propane stove and the NuWave induction cooktop. It's enough to
cook Christmas dinner on which is kind of the tell, isn't it? You know if you
can cook Christmas dinner you're good. Up top my spice rack / a jar rack. I can
once a year and I usually eat for about five or six months after.
Underneath here that's the bed storage area and it's my battery bank and all my
electronics. This is everything that controls everything in the house.
Underneath here is a goody. Underneath here is my fire safe. I also have an
electronic safe in the back and, last but not least, my ceiling of ceilings. I've
wanted somewhere to be able to put all of my memories from my time on the road.
This is my personality in a nutshell that makes me smile every time I look at
it which to me is the most important thing. I build these. I'm a fully tooled
contractor. I travel to the customer. I build on your site. While I'm there
building I stay there, gives you the added advantage of actually having your
builder on-site for the entire time to build. The Little Red as she stands is
fifteen thousand five hundred dollars completely off grid outfitted to your
taste. The interior I can do however you desire but the structure, the
electronics, and the systems are tried-and-true.
Let my presence bring
compassion and understanding whenever I see you at traffic. If my silence speaks
allow it to express a thousand words if need be and when they are heard let them
say and mean something to you. I am curious of who you are enough to get on
a highway and I don't normally travel but maybe that highway that person you
maybe can lead me to the happiness that I just can't seem to find. Whenever this
touches your hands may it send out my sincerest thoughts of you and your
well-being. How are you? I hope that you were being you and they are being them.
Our words are so powerful and more so those who can put them in action so let
my words if they may speak be the substance to warm your embrace to my
actions. I'm not a self salesman. I can't sell myself. I'm not desperate. I am a
potential man. Beware the action of a potential man for
it leads to honesty. I'm not looking for a come-up. I am looking for happiness.
Your energy sends strength and intelligence both of which I find myself
attracted to. I would not put myself out there for anything that I thought was
weak. Now my life has a direction. For I refuse to walk aimlessly around without
a direction or destination. My destiny is not solitude, yet my life is not peace. My
present condition does not display Who I Am. My actions and how I face my
condition does, nor does my condition measure my value. What I have to offer
and receive constitutes real value. The most important thing you need to know
about me is that no matter what, I will never quit, beg, give up, or lie down
so don't let my situation shield me from you. In our subconscious mind we
visualize that one person who is there no matter what, but then our conscious
mind erases them as if they don't exist. I do exist.
Subconsciously and consciously too. The question is do I exist for you?
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