hey there welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and creative homes
in today's video we're going to take a look at chelsea's adorable tiny home
which allows her to be near family when she's not traveling the world and while she's off
being a jet setter the tiny home acts as a rental helping her to afford her wonderlust lifestyle
that's why i love tiny homes so much because i don't think you should have to work for your home
i think your home should work for you someone once told me that the world is
this huge place and you get this much to make it beautiful and cozy for you
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i'm chelsea you're on the nut farm and i want to show you my tiny house the irish gypsy
i became interested in tiny home living while i was working on private jets
because i really love the gypsy life tiny spaces just feel amazing to me
my builder was vintage cottages in salem oregon finding the right builder for me was really easy
i just put it in google we drove there looked at it talked about pricing and then just bought it
like i hate research so i didn't want to look at too many places and it seemed really affordable
they do wholesale so it's just kind of the shell and they put it where we wanted it was very easy
we're here on the nut farm in oregon we call it the nut farm because we have these two beautiful
walnut trees but also because my grandpa's kind of nutty he lives right next to me my brother
his wife and two kids live right next to that and then my tiny house is on my mom's property
because we're all here we get together for a lot of meals pick blackberries together or peaches
and can them and go on bike rides really just enjoy each other's company i lived here for
two and a half years and i loved every minute of it before that i had been traveling for six
years away from my family so when i came back i was just loving having my community here
i think that was like one of the happiest times in my life just seeing everything come together
after two and a half years of being settled i felt the need to be a gypsy again and go back
to traveling so now i have a renter who is amazing she's just the swedish she's a firefighter she's
gone a lot for her fire jobs in other states so i feel like i'm pretty lucky in that way
where it's not getting heavy use i bought the tiny house for cash for thirty three thousand
two hundred she pays 8.50 in rent with that the tiny house will be paid off in four and a
half years even though i loved living here it's also affording me to live the life that i want
welcome to the outside of the irish gypsy as you can see it's a little taller i added two feet to
the height so that i could sit up in bed in the loft it's also a little bit wider at nine and a
half feet versus the eight feet that's typical but i can still go down the road as long as i
get flags for both of the corners and then one of my favorite things that attracted me to the irish
gypsy was these windows they really said gypsy to me and then i also included the porch which was an
add-on they had all the pieces of wood and instructions so my dad came over and built
that for me we got the house four years ago and it's all cedar i've stained it once when we first
got it and once about a week ago i really like the colors if it was up to me i would have done really
bright fun colors but since my family had to look at it the most i decided to keep pretty neutral
the skirting is just plywood and it doesn't have any insulation behind it as soon as the trailer
and tiny house got here my dad took off the tires and put them underneath to protect them from the
weather and then he put this up to protect all of the pipes from the weather as well this box
here is for the sewer there's insulation in there to keep all of the pipes warm in the winter and
this goes to a pump which then turns on when it needs to and pumps everything towards the street
all right if you want to come with me we can do a tour of the inside
welcome to the inside of the irish gypsy one of the first things you notice is there's a
lot of wood in here it makes it really warm and welcoming whenever i have new guests they always
comment that it doesn't feel tiny in here you'll notice it feels pretty big for the high ceilings
and how wide it is the windows provide a lot of natural light and then i think the colors
that i chose at a really fun vibe so the house arrived with this counter space here they had
me choose an oven which i went for a smaller size because i'm not a big cooker and a smaller fridge
i noticed it wasn't really enough counter space so i had my dad build this for more space here and
more storage space originally the fridge was on this side and i thought that that blocked it and
kind of separated the two rooms so i preferred the fridge over there to make it a little bit bigger
when it comes to the kitchen i was really excited about saving space with things that hang here i
also got this so that's not on the counter and i purchased this for kind of a pantry for dry
storage and it's worked out really well and on the other side of the kitchen is my tiny bathroom
i'm used to a pretty small bathroom because i've worked and lived on boats for
a long time i think it's really cute in there
i did get a shelf so that helped a ton for space i don't have a lot of toiletries
the shower is a little bit bigger than if you're showering in an rv so i like that but it's still
pretty small for when you're bending over and trying to shave if i could do one thing
different i might make the bathroom a little bit bigger especially if there's more than one person
i really enjoyed the cedar in the bathroom especially when you would shower and it would
heat up the cedar smelled really good for a long time i just went for a regular toilet
i thought about doing composting but it was so easy to hook up here it really wasn't a problem
so now we get to talk about the closet which is one of my favorite parts about my tiny house
as soon as i moved in i had a friend from yachting come visit me and he used to build the interior of
yachts so i told him that i had a lot of clothes being in organ there's a lot of different weather
so he had the idea to do this with the two separate racks so i can hang a lot
and then this is all hanging as well with some cupboards and drawers
at the bottom of the stairs i have my hope chest that i got when i graduated high school and i
knew i wanted it in here i didn't know where to put it so it ended up being my bottom step
now it's being used for pillows and blankets let's head up to the loft
this is a queen size bed as you can see i can't really sit straight up the roof has a little bit
of a curve so it's higher here and i just measured it's almost three feet but it's still not enough
space to sit straight up so even the two feet didn't make it perfect the loft is super cozy
and my nieces and nephews always wanted to be up here with me they felt like it was a tree house
the windows are amazing and when i moved in the sun would come up through this window
so it would wake me up every morning and i would kind of scoot to see the mountain and
the beautiful view over there and it was really nice because i made these curtains with my mom
on her sewing machine which i'm not a sewer at all but that was a fun project and
my dad and i made the shelves on either side i was learning a lot of new skills which was really fun
so this is the first thing that i ever bought for the tiny house i got it while i was in tulum
mexico in anticipation of having my own spot to do my makeup and i like it because
guests can sit here and face this way and then i can also turn and do what i need to do over here
so this is the second loft right as you walk in the door
i just use this for storage but i also had some family members
install rings here and i used to when i lived here hang my yoga trapeze and do that in here
it was my best friend lindsay's idea to build pallet couches so we just drove around and
found these on the side of the street my niece shelby helped me pick out the cutest ones and then
lindsay and i built them which was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be because we're
not builders even though it looks like we just set three pallets on top of each other a lot more went
into it um but we did plan for some storage space which isn't being used right now but we had two
little baskets in there so it was a lot of extra room i really liked it because it was free i like
how wide they are so i can feel like i can really like cozy up i just bought a thick pad and then
these two blankets at home goods with the pillows so the couch all together was probably like 60 or
something like really good deal and i could make them the size that i wanted so they fit perfectly
in here when i have guests over i just go over push that one over here and it makes a guest bed
so one cool feature is hidden behind here is my table that my dad built for me
he came in very handy during everything you can just do that it comes down
and that's where i would eat most of my meals
living tiny for me is freedom you can go anywhere at any time you have the money that you haven't
spent on all of these things that you don't really need someone once told me that the world is this
huge place and you get this much to show your personality and make it beautiful and cozy for you
my advice for living tiny is go for it just jump into it because thinking about it and questioning
it i feel like is just gonna give you hesitation and in my experience it's not been hard it's
been amazing so worth it and it gives you other opportunities in life that you wouldn't have had
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