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Family of 5 Downsize to a Nerdy Tiny House with No Mortgage - YouTube
Channel: Tiny House Giant Journey
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Hi guys. Jenna here with
Tiny house, Giant journey.
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And one of the biggest questions I get
about living in a tiny house is if you
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could possibly do it with a family. Well,
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I interviewed a family of five living
in a tiny space that's less than 400
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square feet. So let's go
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see what they have to share.
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I'm Kim, I'm Raul and this is our
house. It's awesome.
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They are known as the tiny house kids
and so everybody wants to come and have
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play dates as our house versus
their house and sleep over.
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It's a small space, maybe not sleepovers,
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but no more than we had
in the bigger house.
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I owned a business for over nine years
and I sold it in 2016 and we decided to
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do something a little crazy.
We sold our house pretty much,
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got rid of everything we owned and built
a tiny house so that we could come up
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to see the Pacific Northwest
without a mortgage,
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You have to do it just to do it
I guess I'll go along for the ride so.
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right now we are on seven acres.
There's a house not too far away.
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And so we're basically sharing the space.
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Well this is the kitchen area and this
is basically where kids hang out mostly
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cause we kind cook like a team and we
have three kids so we have a lot of
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cooking. We have a dishwasher that
is hidden that is now steaming.
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Oh it is a hidden dishwasher.
Hidden dishwasher.
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not very organized drawers but
we have tons of space for stuff,
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lots of collapsible stuff. We hire children
to do most of our housekeeping.
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So when you were designing this space
were you like I need a big kitchen
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cause I have three kids and
a big husband who eats a lot,
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but I really like to cook too. So this is,
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pretty much most of
the house is food and kitchen.
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We've got four burner cooktop.
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So I made Thanksgiving and
Christmas dinner here we
have an oven so I can cook a
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turkey in here or whatever we need.
This is propane and this is electric.
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So if the power goes out,
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we can at least have coffee and
cook things on the stove top.
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More random storage space
here. Our Christmas tree,
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I don't know many tiny houses that have
a Christmas tree, but it rolls out.
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So it's collapsible. Yeah. And then
you'd hang it on the wall windows.
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So this is our Smeg. Um,
it's a Charming refrigerator.
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Um, so this kind of, I designed
the whole house around it.
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So the yellow and the door and
stuff were kind of inspired by this.
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Um, it's like an apartment size, so we
can fit quite a bit of food in there.
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The freezer really sucks. You
can't fit anything in it. So,
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but it looks pretty, it's pretty.
So that's all that really matters.
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And then here's our stairs
storage. It's got my apron.
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As you tell tons of food and stuff,
it goes really deep in there.
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So we try to minimize our shoes.
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But if everybody gets two pairs
of shoes or three pairs of shoes,
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that's still ends up being
at least 15 pairs of shoes.
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So we use this space for all of our
shoes and boots. And flip flops.
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you like living in our tiny house? Yeah.
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Tell me what you like about living
in the tiny house. Before we
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had our separate rooms,
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but now they each have our own room and
play together more and we can have more family time.
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So a washer, the dryer we
looked at like the all-in-one,
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but I've heard that they take a really
long time to dry and you have to do like
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half a size load. And with us and
five of us always doing laundry.
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So this was easier for us. When
you have kids in a tiny house,
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everybody always asks, how do we have
adult time? You turn on the dryer.
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that's all I'm gonna say. It's
a kind of a loud machine.
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We bought it for its decibel levels.
And it shakes houses a tiny bit.
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So our bathtub is going
to be remodeled soon.
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So we have a modified horse drop.
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We are going to eventually make this
tiled and make it into like a two shower
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kind of thing.
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Composting toilets with instruction guide
because we have a lot of kids coming
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in, you know, to play in stuff.
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So we always have to remind them to
read the directions because little kids
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don't intuitively know how to
use the composting toilets.
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And some adults are confused by
it as well. What goes where?
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And we've had a few mishaps
I'm sure, all around though.
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Do you like this toilet? Yeah, it takes some getting used to.
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as a family of five
we have to empty it probably more than
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most people. It's like every
three and a half weeks.
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It's three and a half weeks.
Tell me about these glasses.
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So I have a glasses obsession and
I have a business where I sell glasses
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so I found that thing on Etsy.
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I thought it was really cool so I can
hang all my glasses on there and have,
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be able to pick and choose and
not have the cases and everything.
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We keep all of our clothes here. So all
of this is Raul, all of this is me.
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Um, we kind of have to do capsule
wardrobe type stuff. So you know,
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seasonal to kind of rotate
out. Is that your only closet?
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This is our only closet
besides the hanging stuff
here. That's Raul's. But yeah,
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all of my stuff is there and
then all of his stuff is there.
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You both
climb up without having to bend down?
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Well I'm going to get about this far. I'm
shorter than him. How tall are you Raul?
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I'm 6'4
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The tiny house is called, Idris which is an homage to Dr. Who,
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Which is a very obscure
Dr. Who reference,
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there's probably one guy and going,
Oh I totally know what that is.
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I have to sacrifice half
of my cool nerd tee shirts.
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He didn't want to get rid of them.
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So he had like 30-40 nerd shirts.
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So we put it into a quilt.
These are actually diapers.
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Super Mario themed baby diapers
and we couldn't get rid of.
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So we decided to convert them into
part of our quilt. You wore this when River was born.
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This is River's newborn like dress.
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She wore my little pony. Star Wars,
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Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars,
Goonies. That's kinda neat though.
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You like have memories based on all of
these and you didn't get rid of them.
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Instead you turn it into something else.
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Lord Vader, his dark majesty,
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he's fierce right? He's, he
could totally be evil, right?
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No, we can't be evil.
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We don't have any special
tiny house couch or anything.
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We just have your regular Ikea
couch because kids ruin everything.
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I didn't want to build something and then
have somebody draw with a marker all
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over it and then have to redo it. Pillows
kind of going with our same theme.
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They're all nerd shirts.
This is my wedding dress.
And they made it into a bear.
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So since I didn't have anywhere to
store it, I had to make it into a bear.
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And this is Raul's
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He wore a green lantern
shirt under his tux.
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So that's the green
lantern shirt that he wore.
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So it was hard for you to get
rid of all your nerd stuff,
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but you did keep books and games. And
comic books and I kept all my favorite
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stuff. There are some standouts
that I loved very much.
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RPG game, gaming books.
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A lot of them are rare so
you can't find them anywhere.
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So Raul would not compromise on the,
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well no he did. I did compromise. We had a
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60 we had a 70 in our other house so he
did downsize and I found these things and
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they're called you hide it I think. Yeah.
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And I found them on Amazon and so they're
mouths for all of his game stuff so we
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can hang the controllers
and hang his game stuff.
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So it doesn't actually take
up any space anywhere else.
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So that really kind of helped me
let him keep all of that stuff.
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We have the standard Ikea tiny
house table. That everybody has.
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We have six chairs that are hung on the
wall so we can seat six at the table.
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We open it up and then we usually
put it like in the middle area.
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We've even had house
parties here. Where like,
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we just put a bunch of food on the table.
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We've had 20-25 people and it gets
really cramped. I mean,
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but I mean it's like an
apartment party.
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But if you don't like the person don't invite them.
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Exactly. You have to really like
the people that you invite. Right.
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So this is the kid's
room. This is all toys.
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This is all clothes and
then books and stuff.
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And then we go to the library and all
that. This is our oldest son's bed,
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so he stays up here and
got pillows and blankets.
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This is the middle kid's bed and then
the baby has a trundle bed that we can
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pull out and it goes all the way
out. Then we're able to put it back.
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What's cool about this is that they are
forced to clean their room every day
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because they have to put the bed up and
then they have to clear off the floor in
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order to pull the bed out. So it
forces them to clean their room.
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How much time do you think
it takes to clean your room?
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Like 10 minutes.
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And do you do it every day?
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Uh,
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At some point we planned to
put like curtains here to
kind of give them a little
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bit of privacy and then we do have a
plan for a bigger tidy that would be like
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500 square feet. Well,
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it's nice as we're saving money every
cause we don't have mortgage so we get
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a lot into
savings to build our house.
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So we plan to build that outright and
not have a mortgage on that house. Yeah.
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So cool. By the time Jackson's 13 we're
gonna start planning his tiny house,
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that's one of our main goals.
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And we want them to go to school debt
free and not having to worry where he's
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gonna live until the moment.
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Any tips for anyone who wants to live
in a tiny house with the children?
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I would say lots of food storage,
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making sure you have room for
toys and clothes and shoes, some
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food, mostly food. They do eat a
lot of things. Uh, shoes, shoes.
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Make sure you like your
children and your wife.
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It's really
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great to see how a family of five can
live in such a small space and really make
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it work. So if you liked this video,
make sure to like share and subscribe.
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And until next time
I'll see you guys later.
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