hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny houses and showcase
people living alternative lifestyles in today's video we're traveling to colorado to take a look
at one couple's amazing tiny house and tiny studio that they've added on to their property the story
of this tiny house goes back several years when they actually built the tiny house off of a kit
traveled around with it for a period of time then bought a piece of land and crashed it
on the way to parking in their forever home after a certain amount of time of devastation
they decided that the house was salvageable and they rebuilt it to be better than ever
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but right now let's dive right in and hear lauren and patrick's story
including their epic journey to finding a forever home and take a tour of their tiny house
hi i'm lauren and i'm patrick we're excited to show you our wanderlust tiny house
so about six years ago patrick and i were living in kansas city
and we were just looking for a change of pace a change of scenery we got interested
in the tiny house movement we thought that the tiny house would give us the freedom to travel
and then also land somewhere afterwards and have a comfortable place to live that we owned outright
it took us from about january through april we were working full time on just this build
we budgeted 30 000 for the overall build i think we ended up at around 32 000. after we built the
house we lived in it for about a year and a half part of that was traveling and then we purchased
this land when we went to move the house up here it's a very steep dirt bumpy road our trailer
somehow jumped the hitch rolled back behind us and went over the edge it was pretty devastating
we pulled the tiny house out of the ditch with the help of some neighbors up here with some
big equipment it was pretty much ruined like we it had flipped over and so the cabinets
had fallen off the wall and the stairs had fallen and it was not in good shape and so
we pulled it up here and we we just sort of stuck it in the back of the yard and
and didn't look at it for a while because we were too sad and we weren't ready to start anything on
it yet because it had only been a year and a half since we built it so it was so fresh
where we are at now is exactly how we wanted this
space to be from the beginning and that just really works for us
so we're out here on our deck we have two buildings here
and the deck between it we just built last year and it's about 22 by 20.
especially in the summertime we really love this outdoor deck space it's huge and we can have a lot
of people out here and we can entertain or watch movies we have speakers that are connected inside
so we can play music out here we also have the propane heater and then we've got a projector as
well so we can really entertain a lot of people out here even with our small interior space
we are on a property here that's about 10 acres there was a house here previously it
burned down in a wildfire about nine years ago so we bought the property about four years ago and
we had the water a well electric and a septic system here already
this tiny house is on a 20-foot long trailer that we purchased from tumbleweed here in
colorado we actually purchased the structure already framed on the trailer and then we did
all the finish work so it had the sheathing up when we bought it this particular design
has the gable roof this way which is a little bit different from other tiny house designs
where they're typically this way and the reason we like that is because inside when you go up
to the storage loft the peak is actually right where you're climbing into the loft
and then we have two dormers up there for the storage loft and the sleeping loft
the roofing is actually it's andu vila brand the reason we like that is because it comes in big
sheets that you can just cut with a utility knife so you can really easily install it and
it's all screwed down so it was very safe when we were traveling it couldn't fly up anywhere
so now we're standing here looking at what we call the mini house we added this after living up here
full time for a little while we just decided that we needed a little bit more space and then also
some creature comforts like a washer and dryer we'd been going to a laundromat for a long time so
that was a really big upgrade we actually bought this main structure from a local company that
makes sheds and then once it was set here we added on this extra little room over here i
think it's about four feet extra on the back side of the mini house we built in a utility
room here this is where all of our incoming utilities come in so we have our well tank
our water filtration system including softener uv charcoal and sediment filter and then the water
heater is also in there propane instant water heater and then we have the breaker box in there
as well so the electrical and water both come into this room and then they feed both buildings
we love this landscape here we have had a family of foxes living in a den up there
for the last few years since we moved up here so they're really fun to watch
so why don't we go on in take a look
welcome to the inside of the wanderlust tiny house in this iteration of the build we went pretty much
full kitchen on the main space we have a 20 foot long trailer we dedicated i think 14 feet of that
all to kitchen and we decided because we have our other living space this space could primarily
serve as that function so we put a much bigger sink in nice deep sink did some custom cabinetry
custom shelving because we were traveling so much on the first build we had to worry a lot about
weight and this time since we knew we were going to be stationary that wasn't as much a concern
one thing we added on this build which was a huge upgrade was this drawer style dishwasher
again since we're stationary and we're hooked into our own septic system at this point the dishwasher
saves us all sorts of time we really love the look of a subway tile backsplash it was actually our
first time doing tile work too so it was a little bit of an adventure but i think it turned out well
so on the original build we had actually a three burner cooktop we decided to go down to just this
two burner because again it maximizes a lot of our counter space in order to exhaust some of
our cooking heat and steam we built in this low profile hood vent right into our cabinetry here
after the crash we were picking up all the pieces from the original tiny house build and we realized
that the original toaster oven still looked like it was in pretty good shape we plugged it in still
worked just fine minus a few dings and dents bravo to breville for making an awesome toaster oven
so above me here is just our storage loft we put a little cabinet up there just holds excess
kitchen supplies extra flour sugar salt that kind of stuff the advantage that we did see
is changing to a ladder instead of the stairs now we can climb right up there really easily
we can move our ladder to that side get up to our storage loft as easily as possible before
we had to stand on the couch it was over here and reach up and it was just a pain
so because we lost the couch we took that out of the design one cool feature we added this
time around was just a hook to hang these hammock chairs on so when we do want to just
kind of sit back and get comfortable we just roll out these hammock chairs
hook them right on these carabiners and now we got a comfy little place to sit
we extended the countertop all the way across in front of this window here it's been a great spot
to just sit enjoy the surroundings look outside have my morning coffee if i'm lucky enough we
can take a look up and see the foxes running around it's just a really cool spot to sit and
kind of think the previous tiny house layout we had a staircase going up to the sleeping loft
here but our kitchen was actually the complete opposite side and it wrapped around as an l the
bathroom door was over here so we completely remodeled everything on the second time around
one of the biggest changes between the two builds is we got rid of the staircase in the
second build it provided a lot of storage but we realized it took up a ton of space and since
we wanted this to be a nice open kitchen we went with a ladder type design this time around so we
kind of just hang it on the wall here for storage when it's not in use and otherwise we can hang it
right on that rail so here we are up in the sleeping loft queen-size bed i
think we've oriented this bed every which way to find the right place for our heads
and we finally ended up with the head toward the window seems counterintuitive because the ceiling
goes low but we can actually sit up fully sit up back here still we bought this little projector
this is kind of our tv up in the sleeping loft super handy super small it has android built in
so you can get all sorts of fun apps like netflix and everything right on it we have an automatic
drop down projector screen right here in front of us which kind of has two purposes really one it's
the screen itself but second of all we can close it off and it's like a perfect blackout curtain
for our sleeping area so we can we can really close ourselves off up here and feel comfortable
all right let's take a look at the bathroom
another thing we wanted to change on the second version of the tiny house was the bathroom space
we had on the first one we made it as tight as possible to maximize the other space so
we literally had a three foot shower and we've extended the wall three additional feet out we
have an actual regular sized shower not a tiny house shower and in the previous build we did do
composting toilet because we were traveling so much we didn't always have a place to
hook up to plumbing or septic but because we bought our own land here with septic
already installed we decided to just go with the
traditional toilet it just felt a little bit more normal in a normal sized bathroom
so let's check out the interior of the mini house
so this is what we call the mini house we built this after we'd been living up here
for about a year and we were just looking for some space that was better insulated a little more
protection from the wind and then just a little more room for us to relax we have a full couch in
here we've got a separate fridge an ice maker just for kind of overflow a little extra closet space
we also added this home office set up in here
i've been using this recently a couple days a week i work from home and so we use the tv as a monitor
and then we also have an ac in here which we just put in this summer because it can
get really hot in here during the day and so especially when i'm working from home
that keeps it nice and cool in here
so this is our bathroom through here it's just a half bath we have a toilet
a small vanity and then the laundry machines were the most important thing that we wanted
to get in here so it's a little tight but we are able to fit these which is awesome
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