hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and unique homes
today's tour takes us to a tiny house community in texas where one family is focusing on keeping
their footprints small this teeny tiny home features three bedrooms a catio and enough
space for this family of four to live comfortably if you like these kind of videos please make sure
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right now let's jump right in and meet this family who's proving not everything is bigger in texas
i first started looking into tiny houses i was just really interested in the idea of
being mobile but also having the family be closer knit having a smaller space to leave
behind so we can spend more time outdoors less to manage and deal with inside the
house it took a couple years of convincing rick and then he got on board and decided he
wanted to build it himself it was all him that was all him he loved him he did everything
we rented a house in east dallas it looked like a shed it was pretty bad and we rented
the house with the sole purpose of building this house in the backyard but we lived there
built the house over the course of two years it cost about forty five thousand to fifty thousand
here in the lake dallas tiny house village there's a park right across the street
the library is right there by the park so there are lots of things
within walking distance or right here on the property there's also a fire pit
and community garden space as well we paid 600 a month for the lot rent
i think we all really love living in a tiny house community for the kiddos they have a lot of free
space to run around it is really like a village getting to know our neighbors and feeling like
you're secure if you need sugar somebody's got it
it's very much that community feel that i think most tiny houses are looking
for we built the house starting in 2017 took about two years to build wife and i built it
ourselves it's a 36-foot gooseneck we went with a gooseneck specifically because it's
just easier to transport especially at the length that it's at we went with wood and metal siding
just wanted a bit of contrast just to be a bit more flashy than just traditional wood siding
we did a painted siding on one side shiplap siding on the other and we had burnt this to
do sort of like a shizuki bond kind of finish but uh as it turns out i didn't seal it well
enough and a lot of the sashigi bond a lot of the burning the ash kind of came off over time
in terms of utilities we're on a 50 amp hookup we've got a tankless water heater it's the only
gas that we use for the house we've got a catio for the cat the cat's actually in the
catio right now that's just to give them some space of their own just to be outside
after we got here we decided that we wanted to put in a patio something where we could sit outside
have our coffee in the morning it also gives us plenty of space on the underside to uh store a
lot of stuff that we don't want to keep inside so seasonal decorations crafts for the kids after
some time we also went ahead and put in a roof just uh so i could enjoy our coffee in the rain
in the back we extended the deck recently just to have something for you know the outdoor storage
and the grill just to have this stuff elevated keep it off the dirt
deck actually all the wood for this was from a previous tenant's deck they moved
took their deck apart so we took all the materials and reassembled it
and literally had a scrap of like this much 2x6 left it worked out pretty perfectly
now let's take a look at the inside of the house
starting here in the kitchen one of the things that was really important to me was that we have
a kitchen that could fit four people if we're all helping each other cook or getting snacks or
whatever the case might be i also like to cook a lot so i wanted to have plenty of counter space if
i wanted to roll something out or set up a buffet or something like that we cook very easily with
our large toaster oven and our induction burner i don't feel limited at all in what we can do
you can see we have plenty of space for spices and all the utensils and dishware and cookware we
could possibly need we have a pantry even this was all ikea custom for us so we have space for snacks
and pet food and things like that down here we didn't want to have a super tiny fridge so this is
an apartment sized fridge it's not full size but it still fits everything that we need you can see
there's still plenty of space for extra groceries and we have everything that we need in there
we don't have a traditional living room space we have had a couch in here in the past
but it was kind of cumbersome with the couch and then we'd pop up our
table and it just didn't leave a lot of walking space we're home a lot especially
with quarantine and we homeschool so the table just makes a lot more sense for our family
this table is nice because it can pop down this side can go down and it's just really narrow and
it opens up the space for us or we can also extend both sides turn it sideways and then have multiple
people sitting at it we could add six people around the table if we're watching tv here we
have the pull down screen and we can just have our dinner movie night all together at one time
we also have these custom shelves that my husband built these were an add-on when we
realized that the standalone shelf that we had wasn't enough space for us
again we homeschooled so we have lots of items that we like to keep on hand
and easily accessible for the kiddos now through to the bathroom
we have a curtain which is surprisingly very private but this was a non-standard size so
we had to go with this option versus getting a custom-built door another thing that was big for
us was to have a tub so we ended up going with this round wash bin it's about three feet wide
and we can comfortably take baths that we want or showers
we weren't going to have space for a full-size tub but we didn't want to miss out on this feature
so this is the catio from the inside our cats really enjoy having access to the outdoor space
and it's really nice for us too because this guy is an escape artist and so if we keep the
door open for too long he'll shoot out so on days when we need to keep it open we can give him some
outside time and you know not worry about him running off get some rubs
we were able to get this in here because we were able to cut in under the stairs
that we have leading up to the gooseneck so this fits in nicely and we were also
able to get in our litter robot which is nice when you have two cats in a tiny house space
so now we're gonna go upstairs into the gooseneck
first we have our daughter's room because the space is narrow we wanted to make sure
she could easily get in and out but maybe in a fun and creative way that saves space
so we use the rock climbing holds so that she can climb in and out
she's eight and toys are a priority so right now she's got stacks of bins but plenty of
play space on the floor and all the decorations that she could want she's definitely made it hers
it was important for us to have the kids feel like the space was theirs since this was kind
of a journey that we were taking them on and so i did some custom murals for both of their ceilings
so you'll see hers is a rainbow and she has a decoupage floor with roses and then she kind of
has free reign on decorating it otherwise so that she really feels comfortable in the space now on
to the master this is our space it was a decision that we made to have standing room bedroom because
my husband is 6'3 and it's nice for him to be able to stand up in his own bedroom so we have our
custom bed here that we elevated on top of ikea cabinets it gives it gives us a lot of storage
space underneath the bed as well as plenty of room for all of our clothes in these drawers here
we've got one more bedroom on the opposite side of the house it is a three bedroom tiny house which
i think is pretty unique we again really wanted our kiddos to have their own space and to feel
comfortable in their house so here we have our son's room again lots of free rain you can see
he has fun lights and plenty of storage space make it his own his mural ceiling is the solar system
so another thing we have here is we wanted to have a safe wall for them
without blocking the air circulation so rick came up with a way to weave these ropes back and forth
and create a net wall that's secure but allows a lot of airflow and keeps the space feeling open
i don't think we know exactly what our plans are for the future it's kind of fun just taking it day
by day it took two years to build the tiny house so there was a lot of planning and looking forward
to the time when we'd be living in it and so now that we are we're just kind of in the moment
for now traveling would be fun staying here having this be our home base and getting out more
is really more of the immediate goal i want to go to hawaii i want to go with you
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