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Channel: Tiny House Giant Journey
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Hi, I'm Jenna with Tiny House, Giant
Journey. We're here with the Raven lore,
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which is Nikki's new tiny
home from tiny green cabins.
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Let's go take a tour.
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Come on in. So this is Nikki. Hi.
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And thank you so much for letting us
tour your house. We know it's brand new,
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so it's pretty bare bones right now.
She just got it what, three days ago?
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Just got it and haven't moved in yet,
but I'd still love to show it to you.
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Great. So how long is the tiny house?
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This is 22 feet long by your
standard. Eight feet wide. Right?
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So you got a tiny green cabins they
actually built out over the fenders,
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so you get a little bit more with
on the inside than most tiny homes.
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And how much does it weigh
again? 13,500 pounds. Right
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Which is why it has four axles and we'll
show you that on the outside of the
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house. But some cool features to the
tiny house, um, to the Raven Lord.
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That's unique is that
you have solar power,
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which is what every tiny Houser
wants, but not many have. So, um,
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can you talk a little
bit about the system? Um,
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I don't know too much about it cause I
just got up, haven't tried it out yet.
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It's a 600 Watts system by Zam. Um,
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I got a special on it with the house
and I think it would do pretty well at
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powering the fridge, the
lights, things like that.
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Probably not to be incinerating toilet.
Right. Yeah. And we'll get to that.
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Air conditioner or things
like that. But it could,
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it could keep you off grid comfortably
if you want it to be. Right.
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And I think the most unique thing about
Nikki's house is the color of the house.
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I mean just the overall look. So a,
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what's the inspiration for
the Victorian style? Well,
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the Victorian style was kind of Jim
Wilkins in his first design of the
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Raven lore. When I saw what the house
looked like with all the gingerbread trim,
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I knew it had to be purple
and pink and blue and green.
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Cause that's what I like.
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I think it's gorgeous and I
think it definitely pops if,
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if you'll let me say it and
you know, it's eye catching.
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I mean there's never going to be another
tiny house that looks the same. No,
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I love that it's completely ridiculous.
Makes me really happy. Right. Okay.
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Well let's just go ahead
and start the tour.
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You are sitting in what will be your or
standing and what will be your sitting
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space? Right? This is the living area.
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This is a temporary seating, but it's
not too bad. It's pretty comfy. Right.
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Uh, I hope to eventually, uh,
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put in maybe a projection TV with a screen
that pulls down over the door. Right.
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And so this is her secondary door.
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We just went through the front door
and would you call this the back door?
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The side door?
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I like that there's a second door and
I like that it's all windows there,
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you know, yeah, it brings
in a lot of natural light.
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So ideally you'd have maybe screen that
comes down here and that would work as
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your, you know, entertainment
system. Absolutely. Great. Okay.
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And then make sure you get a lot
of this. Um, wood work up here.
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They've put in, what did he call it? Jim
Wilkins calls this the butterfly vault.
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I guess that's the architectural term
for this really pretty pitch in the
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ceiling here. Right.
The rest of the roof is,
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the normal gable and expands
to dormers up in the loft,
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but she has this extra, um, I
don't know what you call it,
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a little dormer right here.
I guess it's the butterfly,
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an extra Gable. Yeah, an extra Gable.
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But it definitely adds some architectural
value to the house. It's gorgeous.
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And the bump out, which I have
a bump out in my tiny house,
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but we use it for our
sitting area and our tiny
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My tiny house is not as
luxurious and large as yours,
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but you've decided to use it for your
closet? Yes, that is my closet space.
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That's all of it, right. Pretty
sure with some clever organization,
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I can fit my entire wardrobe
in there. Oh, I'm sure you can.
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You gotta do it. You know,
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it's part of the big downsize and then
the solar system is in the bottom and we
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have a Dickinson propane heater off
to the side of the closet. Yeah,
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I love those. Um, that thing heats up
this place really fast and I don't know,
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I love the way it looks. Yeah.
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we had it going on the
other night and it was,
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it was pretty toasty in here. It's really good.
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And then this, um, this is a fold-up
desk, is that correct? That's correct.
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Okay.
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So the usual little flap there,
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that one was custom made to
fit that little spot. Yeah.
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With this nice angle back here. And
you also have this extra shelving,
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which is nice and the nice little window.
Great. Then you can also use this for,
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um, you know, folding your
clothes after doing laundry,
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which I think a lot of tiny houses
don't think about. Things like that.
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You know, folding your
clothes on your couch,
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you don't want that to
happen. So you have some, um,
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cool storage in the floor here.
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I've got little smuggler
hatches in the floor with a little bit
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extra storage. Can we show how
they open? We can try. Okay.
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Here's a little string that you pull up
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and all three of them were this size,
which actually is a pretty good size.
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There's a lot of storage in
there and uh, I like that.
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I like that little extra hidden
storage for the house. Right.
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I don't know what I'll put in there yet,
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but I'm sure all these
doors for something. Yeah.
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And because I'm tiny green cabins built
up over the fenders that gave her that
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option to have storage underneath cause
her trailer is actually a little bit
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higher than mine or a lot of others. Okay.
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Well these are your stairs
corrector. A ladder stair,
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I suppose you'd call it alternating
tread. I like this. I don't,
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I'm not a big fan of ladders. This is
something a little more sturdy and stable than a ladder
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but still doesn't
take up too much space. No,
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because
you can see through it.
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That's why it really expands the space.
If this had a blocker on the back of it,
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it would seem like a wall and
it would close off your space.
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So him leaving that open
was a really good idea.
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Nice and open at the top and it's got a
little slide out cabinet underneath.
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It just pulls straight out. And there's paint in there.
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Some touch up paint for the color
of the house. Perfect. Okay,
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so let's talk about the kitchen. All
right, you can go ahead. It's your house.
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Take us through it. I think this is a
really good size kitchen for a tiny house,
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a little galley style kitchen,
full size sink, big, huge sink.
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I thought that was kind of a necessity.
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I would much rather have a giant
sink then have more counter space,
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which I really have plenty
of counter space in here. Um,
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this is a combination washer, dryer.
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A lot of people don't have
laundry in their house. Um,
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I'm really happy to have
that particular amenity.
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It doesn't take up too much space and
it's something that I felt was a necessity
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for me personally. A lot of cabinets,
a lot of drawers and storage in here.
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Got my cooktop, which you said
you had the same one. I do.
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It's a three burner propane cooktop.
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Now you have a propane water heater as
well on your heating is also a propane.
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Correct. So you'll see on
the back of Nikki's house,
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she's got two big propane tanks to supply
that, the propane water heater,
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a little on demand heaters
under the kitchen sink.
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And I've got a window
over each kitchen counter,
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which I'm big on having lots
of windows, lots of light.
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So you don't feel cramped up, you know?
Right. And then you have an energy star,
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electric refrigerator. The
refrigerator is electric and a,
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is that a little freezer
compartment up here?
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You can tell she just moved down cause
everything's still taped. Haven't done,
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I guess if some day I wanted
to and I didn't like it,
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I could change it to propane. Yeah.
If you want it to be more off-grid,
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I mean you have the solar so you have
the makings of it. But, um, yeah,
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it's just, you know, it depends
on where you're going to be.
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So next up we have the
bathroom. The bathroom.
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a little pocket door or no, that's
a barn sliding doors isn't it? Yeah.
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Cause it doesn't go in, there's
no pocket. It's just slides back here.
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Right.
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And I actually think that these save more
space than a pocket door because when
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you build a pocket door,
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you have to have a really wide threshold
to put that door inside of the wall.
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Whereas if you do a barn style door,
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I think it saves more space cause it can
just go on the exterior of that wall.
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Personally, so in,
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an interesting thing about Nikki's
bathroom is of course the incinerating
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toilet. Um, I understand you
haven't used it yet because again,
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you just got the time house, but, uh,
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what made you decide to go
with this toilet? I don't know.
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It sounds really cool.
Of course, you know,
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it's a waterless system and you don't
have to worry about black wastewater.
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It does, however, use
a lot of electricity.
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That's the big downside of incinerating
toilets of course. Yeah. Um,
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well I can't wait to hear your
review of it. I haven't tried it yet.
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Mixed reviews online about
smells and things like that.
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So I guess we'll find out.
We'll find out. Right.
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And you have a regular
size shower in here. Um,
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and a nice big mirror over a
bathroom sink. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah,
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right at my height. Yeah. I like,
I like everything in the bathroom.
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I think it's a nice
sink. It's a nice shower.
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It's a good size and you have plenty
of room in there to get dressed,
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which I think is again a big plus.
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A lot of tiny houses have to
get dressed in their living room.
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So getting dressed in
the bathroom is great.
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After you get out of the shower
and you have some space up there,
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some storage up here.
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Some shelves there and space for some
more storage over here if I need it.
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Well you can add some more shelving
there if you want to put some of your
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clothes in here.
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That way you don't have to just
stick to your closet in the front.
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So something to consider. All right,
well let's go check out the loft.
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One of my favorite things
in this house is the floors,
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I think the floors they're beautiful. Same with in the loft as well.
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What kind of floors are
those? They're Hickory. Nice.
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Are the walls pine or no? They're
Cedar. Nice.
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So I think this is a
pretty good size loft area.
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Even even over here, where you're not
at the full ceiling height. It's,
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it's not that short. Yeah. My
mattress will be pretty thin,
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so I don't think I'll be hitting
my head too much. Maybe on this.
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You can always switch that out
if it's a problem. Yeah,
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but that's going to be where your
waist is more than your head,
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so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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Got nice windows on your side that
open and get a good cross breeze.
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And I love this little decorative
picture window in the back.
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It's one of my favorite things.
Victorian style. Again, it's,
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it's got a nice line to it as well, you
know, that would've been hard to trim.
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Well this guy is like a
master carpenter. Gorgeous. Yeah.
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Fantastic work. Um, and he did
put in a lot of outlets for you,
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which is a great thing.
There's a lot of, um,
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lots to be said about having choices of
where you're going to plug your devices.
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And so I see one, two,
three up here. That's great.
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So one thing we forgot to mention is
that you have an air conditioner in here
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because you live in Savannah, Georgia.
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It does get a little tropical here
in the summer. Absolutely. Yeah.
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That is a
necessary amenity in this tiny house.
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It's electric. Um,
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but from what I've heard about these
systems is that it puts out plenty of,
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you know, cool air for you to live
comfortably in a tiny home in the summer.
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Yes. So you want to head outside and
show us around. All right, great.
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As you can see,
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those bright colors are here that we
were talking about earlier and I believe
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you called it the gingerbread.
Yeah. And those are her four, um,
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solar panels on the top.
What kind of roofing is that?
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That is castle top metal shingles. I've
never seen anything like that before.
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I love the alternating colors.
Yeah, that was my idea.
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So it kind of looks like a tortoise
shell. I hope you don't mind me,
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but like a colorful, beautiful one. Okay.
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And what I really love about this side
of the house is facial boards and the
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trim work. I mean there's
just a lot of detail.
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A woodwork in this tiny home.
What's the wood that was used before?
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This is, this is Cedar siding.
Cedar siding, and then painted.
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That must've been tricky to go
through this little lines right there.
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he added that, like I didn't,
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I didn't force him to do this little bit,
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but he added that himself
because he thought it looked
nicer. He was right.
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Right. Well he did a wonderful
job. How tall is your tiny house?
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13 and a half. 13 and a half. So
right at the legal limits. Um,
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but it's beautiful. It's definitely
heavy duty you can see it from this trailer for sure.
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And she's got the
jacks on all four sides.
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So welcome to the tiny house community.
Thank you. So are you excited?
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Are you excited? I can't wait to get
in here and start living my new life.
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Exactly. Well, congratulations. Thank you.
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So tune in next time
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