hey there welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny and creative homes in this week's
video we're traveling to washington to take a tour of amanda's tiny home imagine having
the ambition to build your own first home when you were in your early 20s well after years of
saving working multiple jobs and building on the weekends with her father amanda was able to design
and create her first home and of course because i'm featuring it on my channel it's tiny if you
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hi my name is amanda and this is my tiny house
what made me interested in tiny homes is the simplicity of the lifestyle on top of that also
just the affordability like being my age living in washington state it's not easy to have your own
place if i was living in this town in an apartment i would be paying at least thirteen hundred
dollars a month if not more so this is not only like a lot cheaper it's also something that i can
call my own and that i could keep i am 23 years old i started building this house when i was 21
and this is the first home that i own on my own i came up with the design for this tiny house
just off of kind of getting inspiration from other people's designs my dad's really good at
construction and i just told him my vision and he was able to help me bring it to life
it took me about two years to build this tiny house before i moved into it it was me and my
dad you know both on weekends after work before work he taught me everything as we went along and
now i can say that i could build a house if you wanted me to which i don't think i would ever want
to do it again but i can one thing i'm really grateful for is my dad for doing this with me
he took two years of his life to devote all of his free time to helping me which i could have never
done this without him i really appreciate all the time that my dad has put into helping me on this
project in this home the cost of this house with it fully furnished probably 35 to 40 000.
how i afforded to be able to build this house and everything is honestly just working
i've worked all throughout high school all throughout college i was able to save up
a lot of money also because i lived with my family for most of that time
i've been living in my tiny house for about five months now
how i found this property was kind of through a friend of a friend i pay 600 a month and that
includes water sewer garbage wi-fi eventually the goal is to buy property and put my home
on the property so i don't have to pay rent or i pay towards the property i get to keep
but for now i'm spending a lot less per month than i would be if i didn't have a tiny house
this is the outside of my tiny house it's on a 26 foot trailer with a two foot overhang so it
makes it a total of 28 feet long and the width is just under nine feet the trailer is from
iron eagle trailers which they make trailers specifically for building tiny houses on
for the siding of my house i went with corrugated metal as well as wood i liked
the clean sleek look of the metal but i also wanted to add a little more like spunk to it
and make it a little more like pop and so that's why i went with the stained cedar up front
i put a good amount of windows on my house just to let in a lot of light and kind of
make it feel a little bit bigger they're all just standard sized windows that i ordered
so this is my porch it's a new addition as of about a month ago
and i'm so glad i did it i like to hang out here eat breakfast out here all the
time which is fun but i also move these off to the side and i do my yoga here in the morning
along with adding on my porch i also added on a tiny garden for my tiny house i just
have a few different like fruits and vegetables slice some strawberries here
zucchini those are going to be brussels sprouts i got to put them in another pot
cucumbers and so that way i just have some fresh fruits and veggies for my house this is also where
my utilities are so my sewer and water hookups are over here i have my propane tanks up front
of my house and then i have a hot water heater on the back of my house as well as the power
so now we're in my tiny home and the first spot is my living room so over here
we have my couch i got it off of offer up but it's originally from ikea and you've probably seen them
in tiny houses because it has so much storage i keep extra sheets blankets duffel bags in here
whenever i have guests over i just move my coffee table out of the way and it pulls
out into like a full futon bed so it's the perfect guest bed whenever i have people over
back behind here is just like a bunch of random books and blankets and things but i do have a
projector since i don't have an actual tv in here it projects to the other side and i can
set up a screen over my kitchen and i can watch movies netflix whatever there which is perfect
down here my coffee table is another spot where i have storage which is nice so i have
random little storage in here and then this is also where i'll like eat dinner
so this is the smaller of my two lofts and i kind of use this as my gear loft my main hobbies are
backpacking hiking climbing so all that stuff is here so i have like all my tents and sleeping bags
and everything here snorkeling gear rock climbing gear slack lining all like my backpacking food is
here and then over here this shelving it's kind of used as like a divider to the downstairs
area but then i also have like all my art stuff in here so all these pull out into drawers i have
like all my paint brushes and lots of books and journals all sorts of stuff in this area on the
other side of my ground floor is my kitchen so i wanted a lot of space in my kitchen because i
do really like to cook and bake so i have a lot of counter space i did the butcher block which i just
like the style and the look of it the open shelves i have here i just think it's fun my sister-in-law
has open shelves in her kitchen and i was kind of like inspired by her and with the jars with
all like my sugar and rice and things in it but i just kind of like the open design and kind of
show off some of the stuff that i have in here the nicer things at least we have a rv stove
so i have my three burners it is a propane stove and oven the oven's just big enough for
a small pan nothing too crazy probably not going to be cooking a turkey in here on thanksgiving
microwave originally i wasn't sure if i was going to do one but i use it way too much so i do have
it down here it's easy for me to bend down and get to it but i know some people don't like that
airfryer is kind of my go-to i use that more than i use my oven these days
plenty of cabinet space everywhere no shortcomings in the cabinet space
my fridge and freezer is pretty big as well i never really have it completely full i don't
know what's in here right now so there's a lot of space one of the main things that i wanted with
my cabinets was a big pantry and i really liked the pull out pantry so i splurged a little bit
to get the pull out drawers and it makes it just like a lot easier to get to everything that i have
in my pantry which i really like i got the cabinets through a small cabinet place south
of seattle it's called essence cabinetry they do like warehouse cabinets and you kind of just
pick and choose from their warehouse so it was a lot cheaper than a lot of other places that i
got quotes for which turned out very nice and they're really high quality too which was great
this is my sink from ikea but one thing that's fun is uh if you can see it turns like blue
when the water's cold i mean like as soon as it gets hot it turns like green and then red which
i thought was a fun fun little thing i upgraded my sink for that and i chose a big sink just
because the one thing i don't have in my kitchen is a dishwasher so i wanted a big
space so that it wasn't like a pain to wash all my dishes and then back here we have my bathroom
my vanity and sink area i actually got it it was like one of the displays at lowe's and it's kind
of beat up a little bit so they gave it to me for really cheap so that was kind of a score because
i wanted like the barn style door down here and that was the main reason why i wanted this
i've also did like a little pocket in the wall here the idea was that i could like have all of
my like toiletries and things in there another thing is i just have a full-size washer dryer
just regular home washer dryer and i don't regret it because i do a lot of laundry and i didn't want
to have to deal with going to a laundromat or having like a really small one and it fits in
the space pretty well so i'm pretty happy with how that turned out over here i have my corner shower
i was a little worried about the corner shower to be too small i was thinking things like shaving my
legs i wouldn't be able to like bend over but it is big enough um a lot of the accents in my house
are green because i have a lot of plants and so i wanted to kind of match that with my tile me and
my brother tiled this shower together tiling is uh not my jam that's for sure it took a while and
you know it's not perfect but it looks good and i'm very happy with it but tiling is it's a long
process and then back behind the door here is just the toilet area so regular toilet regular plumbing
like any other house i assumed i would mostly be on a property that would have sewer and so
with that i just went to a regular toilet and it's also something that i could always change like if
i end up somewhere that doesn't have it it's not the biggest deal just to swap out toilets and do
something different but i do plan on always being on a property that has sewer i decided to go with
ladders inside my house instead of stairs the main reason is because i wanted a lot more floor space
i like to work out and do yoga and this is like kind of the only area i have to do that indoors
and so with the ladder and being able to kind of move it out of the way to the other loft i have
a lot of space to work out i had it custom made by my aunt and uncle they have a metal
fabrication company and so they made it exactly how i wanted it and customized which is amazing
now we're in the main loft which is my bedroom i have a full-size bed here so not huge but also not
small which is perfect for me and i also designed it to have this skylight right above me it's cool
for multiple reasons one thing is when i like wake up in the morning i i don't hit my head
which is nice because i would if i was on either side here and also at night like i can stargaze
which is kind of cool the skylight also comes out and then i can get onto the roof from here as well
and then over here i have my closet um i have a lot of clothes so we have a lot hung up here and
then i just have a regular dresser that i bought online and all my clothes either fit here or
in the storage uh cubes that i have kind of as my divider for the wall of the edge of my loft
i decided to do carpet in the loft just because it's cozier
just for it being in my room it's just nice and soft and cozy and since i don't really
have that downstairs because it's all the laminate flooring i wanted that upstairs and
my uncle put the carpet in because that's what he does for work so it all worked out nicely
i have a lot more financial freedom living in my tiny house i travel all the time so i'm always
just being able to pursue my passions which if i was spending double what i'm spending right
now i wouldn't be able to do as much i know not everyone has like the support system that i had
it isn't as easy for everyone as it was for me but i would say if you are really committed to
something and you put your all into it like you can make it happen like i spent two years of my
life working so much and building this house for me that like sacrifice of two years of my life
to have financial freedom and live the life i'm living now is like totally worth it
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