hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of unique homes
and showcase people living alternatively in today's video we're checking out one couple's
fifth wheel camper remodel and it's also their full-time home while the outside of this camper
seems completely standard once you head inside you'll see that it's been completely gutted
into a modern and gorgeous tiny home owners hannah and chris live full time as nomads and chose this
lifestyle to improve their mental health and for the flexibility to pursue artistic careers
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video but right now let's take a tour of this amazing fifth wheel camper remodel
hi i'm chris and i'm hannah and we're here in the
arizona desert and we're excited to show you our tiny home maggie
i just started seeing this lifestyle pop up more and more on instagram the romantic picture of the
people with their van doors open looking out over these vast beautiful landscapes and i was like
i want that i brought it up to him about five years ago and i said let's sell everything and
move into a camper and go travel and hike and see everything there is to see and he told me i
was crazy and that there was no way he would ever leave his business i've done construction most of
my life 10 years basically building that business for a while it was everything that i wanted to be
doing but at the same time i wasn't taking care of myself in the other aspects of my life my health
started to slip and i started struggling with depression which i always had but it really kind
of crept up and really started to take control of my life i had a breaking point where i just
had to make changes seeing just people out there just making it happen i was like okay well what
does it really take to do this and once we started looking into it it seemed doable we had a truck
so it made sense to have a tow behind vehicle so we started looking at campers and trailers we
knew that we wanted something used because we were going to be tearing it all apart and doing a bunch
of work and completely changing things running a remodeling company i was very comfortable with
doing all that work we had all the tools and the resources we need we kind of made a game
plan of what we wanted to keep and what was going and gutted it and started from there
we knew the light at the end of the tunnel was being able to live this lifestyle and
travel and go hiking every day and just have the freedom to do whatever inspires us so
that was a huge motivation we were so ready that we were like
let's just power through this and get it done and get out and so that was kind of the driving force
one of the big advantages of this rv was this slide out an extra three feet along our whole
living room makes the world of a difference when you get in there it feels wide it feels
big doesn't feel like you're in a trailer it feels like you are in a living room and that was really
important to us we wanted a tiny home on wheels that was going to feel very homey we also have
our mountain bikes with us we got a bracket for mounting them to the bumper we got a couple spare
tires mounted on the back here and then we also installed a cell signal booster so that way we
can have signal wherever we are it does a great job we're up here on the roof now i wanted to
show you our solar up here we've got five 210 watt solar panels that's a total of 1050 watts
we have three of these access doors around the front of the camper here that gives us access to
our what we call our basement storage underneath our bedroom let's take a look here we've got our
electrical system i was able to reuse this space that was all dead space that had a
bunch of haphazard wires run and a bunch of nonsense basically we were able to get four
100 amp hour lithium ion batteries in there i have room to fit two more we have a viktron
multi-plus charger inverter a victron 150 70 solar controller and victron lynx that kind of
fuses everything connects everything together for our water we have 50 gallons of fresh water tank
we combine the black tank in the gray tanks we now have 85 gallons of gray water storage
by the shower in the bathroom area and another 35 gallons in the rear for the kitchen but to get
more fresh water we have a 60 gallon bladder and we have this pump that i use which is a another
one of our water pumps so if our water pump ever goes we can just replace it but then i have these
hoses hooked up that this goes to the bladder and this goes in here to our tank and we'll fill it up
deciding factor for picking an rv was because we had a truck it was a 2015 f-350 gas
we were thinking that's what we were going to use but the more we looked into it once
we found the perfect camper it made more sense to get a diesel we found this 2014
f-350 diesel motor which i'm very grateful that we did that with this truck we have plenty of towing
capacity with the gas we were kind of right at the limit so it just is much safer and better for
longevity to have a little bit oversized truck and not have to worry about maxing it out all the time
welcome to our tiny home it was really important to us when we did this to have a big open space
so with our slide open we have about 12 feet of width in the camper which is awesome having
our creative spaces was super important for his music studio and my jewelry bench
and we were super excited when we found this camper because it has tons of windows and lots
of natural light i love that my studio window is huge and i can just look out over mountains or
whatever landscape we're in that was important to us to allow lots of natural light to come in
one thing that was really important to us in the camper was to have
a big open kitchen space i love hosting people and having people
over and i like making a big mess while i'm cooking so i love the big u-shape
we didn't want to skimp out at all we ended up going with a big open sink because we wanted it
to feel super homey in here we took this space which was just kind of like empty dead space
and added a piece of wood in here to hold them in and created a little spice rack area so they're
quick and accessible while i'm cooking another one of my favorite parts is the refrigerator
it took a lot of work and uh it uh caused a lot of turmoil between chris and i but it's worth it
we liked having a big art piece right in our kitchen so that was that was cool that
it worked out that way another feature that we love in the kitchen that we customized ourselves
is this um kind of cabinet area so it was rounded actually this whole area was kind of rounded and
swoopy and we really wanted to utilize this space better so we rebuilt this cabinet door
and this is where we keep all of our kind of like tinctures and like our medicine cabinet our
homeopathic stuff and then in here is all of our dry food storage that we have in this drawer so
we're able to utilize that space in that way
a big part of this journey for me was
having the time and consistency to put into my creative outlet of making music and i've
been picking away at it slowly and teaching myself music production this space for me has
been huge i kind of boiled down my favorite parts of the little home studio i had into this space
one cool thing we did was instead of permanently mounting this monitor here
i made it so that we can swivel it over put the bed out and have movie nights
we really wanted to have a nice big comfortable space for
guests because having our friends and family come out and visit us was really important
so we actually took out the sleeper sofa that was in here and chris custom built this so
we did it so that we have a lot more storage underneath the futon itself and we made it so
that the futon is on a sliding track so when we have guests we can just slide this out
another feature that we really love is the beam that we used it's barn board from a tobacco barn
in our hometown in hadley massachusetts i took a bristle brush and hand brushed the whole thing to
get the contrast and this kind of like patina look it was very dark dark gray which didn't
really match with what we had so i brushed it all to bring out the lighter color and it matches the
floors really good so we really like how that looks we can't forget shelby and cush's favorite
feature of the camper chris custom built this for them so this drawer slides out their bowls are
right here we just pull them out and the scooper is here this whole bottom container is filled with
their food which this lifts up so we can easily fill it and then they enjoy their food there
so when we hit the road it was really important for me to have my workspace my jewelry studio with
me we're a little nervous that it wasn't going to work out because this bench is very big and heavy
and we're a little over on our weight limit for the trailer but we made it work
and i'm so grateful because obviously i can take my work with me wherever i go
i did have to cut back on some of the tools that i was able to bring with me
but i make it work and it just kind of forces me to be a little bit more creative another thing
that we love about this camper is that it had tons of storage a lot of the storage up here
i use for my jewelry stuff so i was able to organize it and put my chains up here so a lot of
that stuff is stored up in this area kind of like my business paperwork and that kind of stuff too
this is our bathroom we didn't change too too much to the layout in here but we did replace
with a composting toilet we decided to go with the separate composting toilet as opposed to
nature's head and some of the other ones we love it so far the urine plums down into
our gray tank so we just dump it with our gray water and we never have to worry about
pulling out or emptying one of those containers like with the nature's head ones
and then there's a fan in the back that's really quiet and it basically just dehydrates the waste
and we can just throw it out it's in a composting bag so we don't have to worry about cocohusk or
carrying a medium around with us to break down the compost which is super convenient this is our
bedroom and our tiny home it was really important to us in designing this to make it feel super cozy
in here kind of like our little nest so we did that by pulling in some of our favorite artwork
from home and little things around that kind of like capture our characteristics the bed had
storage underneath it but we didn't think it was enough it was pretty narrow so we kind of
rebuilt this whole area to incorporate even more storage and we keep a backlog of shoes
and hiking gear and kind of like some fun art stuff we have a lot of food under here too
because it's too heavy to keep in the front of the trailer and we need it over the tongue weight that
was a big modification that we did but aside from that we kind of kept it pretty much how it was
storage in the rv was something that i was a little apprehensive about when i saw how
small the space was especially since we had a beautiful big walk-in closet at our last house
but when i kind of shifted my mindset and made it into a game of how much stuff i
could fit in a tiny little space it became a little bit more fun and less daunting
so i found a lot of fun little organizers like this that i roll up clothes and stuff
in and i actually have all my clothes hanging here and then underneath i have a bunch of compartments
with more clothes in there as well so you can fit quite a bit more than i originally thought
in our society i think your well-being and your health and your happiness and your fulfillment
isn't prioritized and it's really unfortunate because a lot of people suffer because of it
this lifestyle it's not always easy and it's challenging at times but the freedom
and being able to see the things that we see and have the experiences that we have
like you can't put a price on that and i wouldn't you know change it for the world
i'm really grateful for how amazing living life on the road is
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