hey there jenna here welcome to my channel where i feature tiny houses and alternative
lifestyle tours today's unique home tour features a young couple who built and downsized into a 380
square foot gorgeous tiny home that's parked in a tiny house village as we take a look inside this
stunning tiny home you might think to yourself wow this tiny house is actually really spacious and
that's because sierra and lucas planned ahead with their design because one day they hope to expand
their family and if you're curious about the tiny house village where they're parked we did a
separate video with all the details so i'll put a link to it right here and also in the description
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hey i'm sierra and i'm lucas and we're excited to show you our tiny base camp
do
i was driving home from the airport and i was super frustrated with traffic and being around
people and just feeling really done with city and heaviness and overwhelm and
clutter and we just wanted a simple life that conversation really spurred well where would we
want to live and so we started kicking around ideas and pretty immediately durango came up
this house was designed largely with the idea of starting a family and we built it to help fulfill
a bigger vision in the future we wanted something we could grow into something that will last that
will be low maintenance and not something we're going to be done with in a couple of years
we told my family at the end of the year we're going to move to durango and go tiny my dad
being the professional contractor that he is he calls lucas and he's like hey it's official i
want to build your house yeah we had to show up we still had to do our part and
put the effort in every single day to make it happen but there were so many
elements and blessings that happened of pieces come together like that
we got to build on a lot right next to the tiny village so we
built it on site essentially what are you doing in my house hobo sleeping on your bed
our build process was in sessions once a week for eight or nine months
all in this house what you see right now is at 75 grand
as you can see this is a little bit different setup than maybe you've seen
a little bit bigger we're on a 15 wide trailer by 40 feet long we actually made
this trailer with a removable tongue we unbolted it once we parked it we slid it
underneath the decking and then we were able to put this bigger staircase here
living in southwest colorado being up in the mountains we're at 7000 feet we chose
a design that had a higher peak of the roofline to shed the snow we wanted zero to know maintenance
and so we went with metal siding metal roofing to stand up to the weather conditions in colorado
just like we went with the metal siding because it's a lot of low maintenance we also went with
the metal skirting as opposed to wood it doesn't rot at the bottom so that
was a consideration is not having skirting that rots the benefits of skirting your tiny house
is it prevents a lot of that draft underneath and it keeps it a lot warmer because a lot of
the cold comes through your floor and so skirting it kind of helps isolate that that air space
all right come on in let's look at the inside
welcome to our living room being a fly attendant i really required the space to put my luggage and
all that stuff that i fly around with i didn't want to bring into and track through our small
house here we ended up using this dead space here in the kitchen cabinet area this dead
corner that happens a lot when you've got this peninsula and this is where i put all of my my
roller bag my food bag all my work bags as flight crew all my work shoes it's so nice to have that
right in the entryway in a dead space anyway and it's out of sight the whole time that i'm home
as you can see there's this huge wall of windows here we really value natural open light
one of the last minute decisions that we made that ended up saving us a lot of money was to actually
not texture any of the drywall and just plan our decor along what parts of the drywall looked good
in other parts of the house we have shiplap on the drywall and that's because the tape there just
ended up looking really bad so we covered it with shiplap all of our little decor on our shelves are
from memories of our travels individually and together and one of my favorite things
on our shelves here is the tape measure i grew up using with my contractor father for 30 plus years
and it just so happened that during our build it broke and he throws it away and i find
it in the trash can and i'm like you're not throwing this away we're keeping it
and he signed it for me as a little keepsake here to display in our diy build house
here we are in the kitchen one thing i really wanted was open usable space i
love the look of open shelves here's a hack we used wine bottle holders underneath the shelves
and then mug hooks underneath that shelf we've got our tea boxes ready to grab here with our
coffee station everything's right here and easy to use and access which i really value
moving to the center of our kitchen we chose a really big 33 inch deep farmhouse
sink as you can see we have a ton of counter space which was really important to us being able to do
meal prep we also do a lot of canning that kind of stuff so that's really important to be able
to have the space to be able to process food we ended up having a wider kitchen space with
more of a u-shape instead of a hallway or a galley section which is pretty common in
tiny homes so we're actually working with 10 feet here some of the galley style kitchens
you're working with more of a six or eight feet it's a lot narrower because we had the full
10 feet we were able to do a couple different things one is the cabinetry is full-size stock
cabinetry which saved a lot of money as opposed to needing to do a custom cabinet job i had started
installing all of the handles for this and actually had misdrilled the very first hole
and so we ended up just throwing this random heart sticker over it and it stayed there ever
since and it probably always will you have to make peace with imperfections
we actually ended up designing multiple features around the full-size appliances
finding full-size appliances on sale actually ended up saving money in the end as opposed
to specialty rv or tiny home type appliances sometimes can be more expensive moving towards the
back of the house next to the fridge we were able to install full-size washer and dryer to not have
to spend an entire day going and doing laundry having a family and kids in the future and have
the ability to expand and grow with this house for many years to come was really really important
to us shout out to mama doreen sierra's mom had the idea of adding the counter space so that you
don't just have this awkward space on top of the appliances where you're losing stuff back behind
it it's actually usable to fold laundry and do different tasks it also gave us more storage for
our linens and detergents that kind of stuff we have the bathroom in the back corner of
the house and then i want to go ahead and show you this room this is one of my favorite rooms
it gave us a ton of utility so come along this is actually kind of a bonus room in this floor
plan we love it it was really important for us to have office space to be able to work
we were able to turn the back wall into his and hers closet space so behind the
curtain we actually have one side that is sierra's side and the other side that is mine
oh hi the bathroom is super cool because you'll notice we have a pretty big vanity with an actual
counter space we actually got this on sale is one of the first things we bought was a normal vanity
from the big hardware store came with the mirror we've got two different lighting options here
a front light right above the mirror and then two lights in the ceiling
we've got our venting fan here in the ceiling right above the shower and the whole bathroom
is walled in tile which actually helps a lot with condensation we don't have to worry about
moisture creating mold back here we've got a large deep soaking tub here and that was
super important for lucas to have soaking after big athletic events plus moving forward in the
future with children we just wanted to be able to have a tub for kids as well makes it a lot easier
let's talk about our stairs i would draw on this wall so many different stair options
and we just didn't know what to do finally went with a partial ladder
on the counter and then some boxes underneath to get up to the ladder portion
this is actually our sub floor here extra thick subfloor left over
and we cut out this and added extra butcher block from our counters so let's head up to the loft
welcome to our loft bedroom it feels really big up here because this is the entire
15 by 10 loft with a little bit of a raised roof this loft is about four and a half feet tall
and i'm 5'3 lucas is 512. like six feet that's what he says
uh and even he fits up here comfortably just walking and squatting versus having
to crawl up here we have two windows up here which adds great ventilation and
natural lighting my mom made the mountain curtains which is a cute touch from her
we knew we were gonna sleep in the loft up here for quite a while so we took this as an
opportunity to really set our intentions with our partnership and our love and our family
and growth moving forward underneath all of the plank flooring that you see here on the subfloor
is actually written to each other our intentions our dreams our vision for our partnership
is all written and sprinkled on the subfloor of our loft before we put the flooring down
which is a super sweet cute personal touch we ended up insulating this entire floor space
not so much that we had to that's not an external heating cooling issue but we wanted
more insulation just that it felt a little more quiet if we're hosting someone down in the back
room in the spare room or when the kids are back there in the future down in the spare room
we still have somewhat of a damper of insulation between downstairs and up here in the loft
we still have these moments of wow we did this babe like we
we built this and it was such an amazing opportunity
i wouldn't want to do it again i will say though
that like we thought we were building a house for our future vision and values
i ended up building into this totally different woman too i think we both stepped into a lot more
of ourselves in new ways throughout this process going through all that did bring us closer and
it did allow us not only as individuals to grow but we've come to this whole new relationship
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in the video about this tiny house village make sure to check out the link in the description