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College Student Builds Outstanding DIY $15,000 Tiny House For Debt Free Living - YouTube
Channel: Living Big In A Tiny House
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a tiny house on wheels can be a dream
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home for a young college student but
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there is a tremendous amount of labour
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and effort that goes into constructing
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one luckily there was one student here
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in Florida who was up to the task and
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today we're about to visit his
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absolutely beautiful home on wheels
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hey Bradley hey Bryce how are you good
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might get to meet you you as well
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this place looks amazing thank you very
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much how long have you been living here
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now I've lived in here three months took
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me about a year and a half to build it
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and the spot that you have found for it
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I don't think I've ever quite seen a
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tiny house in this kind of location
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before yeah I'm really happy about it
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and looking at this video you wouldn't
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know that we're right in the middle of
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Jacksonville so right in the middle of a
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city with like a creek behind me here in
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Florida that actually looks like the
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kind of place where you would expect to
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see some alligators swimming about
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actually I haven't even seen it yet
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after three months but I'm sure they're
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out there so what was it that actually
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made you want to build a tiny house it
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started off more financial than anything
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right out of high school I went and paid
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a year's worth of rent and decided that
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wasn't for me so I moved back home and
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saved up some money to pay for it all
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cash and build it my family thought it
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was never gonna happen until I towed
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home a 27-foot flatbed trailer and then
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they started to ask more questions and
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understood this is something I'm
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actually gonna try and do so you've
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called this house rolling quarters how
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did that come about yeah it's kind of a
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two-fold meeting I thought for a long
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time playing with a bunch of different
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you know puns to name it and rolling
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quarters obviously its living quarters
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and it rolls so that's obviously reason
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the other thing is rolling quarters like
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saving money so the whole idea was to
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pay for everything cash and go against
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the societal flow of financing things so
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tell me a little bit about the materials
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they even constructed this from well I
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started up gaining a lot of things from
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Craigslist like the trailer the windows
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and then everything else I bought from
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Home Depot so I definitely saved a lot
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of a lot of money using reclaimed what's
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this cladding that you've got on here
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this is Regatta blue vinyl siding from a
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local company and I went with it so that
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I could save a lot of weight what are
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the dimensions of this house the
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trailers 27 feet by 8 and a half wide
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with a 5-foot porch so the house is 22
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and the porch is definitely a really
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nice touch there as well
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thank you yeah that was definitely
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something that was important in the
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design process to have that I didn't
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like a lot of the newer tiny houses that
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were more box shaped so definitely makes
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it feel more homey and adds a really
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nice southern
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such as well absolutely you know looking
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at homes built 50 years ago down here
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they all have front porches built in and
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it's great for the community and really
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slows you down but all the new houses
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they don't have that so I definitely
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wanted to put that online and you get to
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truly capitalize on that view out there
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don't you yeah absolutely well I would
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love to have a look inside the house and
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have a look at what you've done
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absolutely come on in thank you this is
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seriously cold thank you very much I
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love the kind of earthy feel that you've
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created with this design yeah that was
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definitely important to me that's why I
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kept the ceiling you know without any
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stain on it all I did was put
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polyurethane on it and it really makes
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it feel homey and kind of the cabin feel
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the way that you've pulled in these
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branches and everything looks really
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good as well all right thank you yeah I
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really like especially considering where
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I'm looking to park out in the woods
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that cabin feels so having branches and
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greenery really make it feel nice and
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caveny now it's only been a short while
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since emma has passed through and you
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did not fear particularly well during
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head did you no I did not
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the creek behind me is beautiful right
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now but when a category-5 hurricane
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comes through flood zone means a flood
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zone and honestly it was a lot of
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stubbornness that caused me to be in the
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flood where I could have towed it
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otherwise but I had just gotten here a
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few weeks earlier I was all set up and I
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really didn't think it was gonna go four
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feet high right here so in my mind all
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the work was done and I felt like I
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shouldn't have to do anything more
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because it was all done and so you know
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as the night rolled on and the water got
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higher I kind of realized that there was
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a big mistake and I definitely learned
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from it I can actually really empathize
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with how you feel in that respect
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because there is such a tremendous
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amount of work into building one of
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these things and when you've completed a
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project the thought of having to do one
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more thing can just put you over the
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edge so I totally get it but so after
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the hurricane had passed and the flood
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had caused some damage to the house how
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extensive was the dam
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and what was the process of repairing
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that all like the worst part about
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repairing after the flood was how I had
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to do it right then and in the next
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couple days because it was water damage
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and if you don't get to that there's
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gonna be mold so ripping up all the
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floors taking everything out tearing out
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the insulation is nothing I wanted to be
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doing while I had class to go to you
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know I run track for the school and so
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it was really a stressful time for me
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however after I got new floors in and
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everything dried out putting everything
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back together was like a puzzle you're
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doing the second time I really went a
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lot quicker and made things a lot you
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know made me feel a lot better
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well I'm glad you have a dry home again
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Thanks I'm too and so we've come right
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into your lounge area haven't we
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right yeah this is this is my lounge
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area this is my couch right now has a
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futon but I'm going to build some
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cushions for it later on and underneath
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I've got storage in the back and then
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some old lockers in the front so those
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are good for storage of shoes and
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everything else and then you've got a
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breakfast bar area over here yeah I was
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kind of hard to decide if I wanted them
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facing at each other
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Orange the window and I thought the
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window would be great because you and
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feels claustrophobic and you'll notice I
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don't have blinds and you were in the
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house that was mainly because this is
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the only a place I've parked so far and
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I don't really need them so if I ever
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moved the house to a more crowded area
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blinds will be the next thing they go in
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sure so here you can still walk about
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naked not this side of the house the
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other side I can and you've got your
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television of course yeah I put in a
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television on a swivel here so that it
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doesn't take up any ground space and
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it's really good because I can swivel it
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up this way and face this side when I'm
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trying to sitting it here or I can lean
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back in the corner and tilt it that way
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as well and then above us here we've got
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a small storage loft area and what's
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this up here that's my roommate that's
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peanut the snake you've got a snake in
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here yeah of course they would get too
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lonely without someone else in here so I
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picked him awesome what kind of snake is
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he he's a Brazilian rainbow boa just got
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him about a year ago and so he's real
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easy to take care
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right what's it like having a snake
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inside a tiny house most of the time I
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don't even notice him because he's up
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there you only have to feed him about
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once a week or two weeks they can go
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where as with any other animal you have
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to feed him every day so it really lets
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me travel and other things without
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worrying too much about leaving well I'm
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gonna have to meet him later but right
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now let's move on into the kitchen space
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sure so I really like how you've
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designed it so that it really is just
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one corridor going right the way back
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down to the other end of the house
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because it really does give you a sense
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of open space in here doesn't it it
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really does and that's one thing I
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wanted to be able to do is look all the
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way to the other end of the house yeah
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and see through that window to make it
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really feel a lot longer instead of just
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a door or something else
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it definitely accomplishes that and I
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like how long you've got the kitchen
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space as well yeah here I might have
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gone a little overkill I have about 8
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feet of work space which is more than
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most apartments am and then you've got
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the fridge over here yeah I do this is a
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10 cubic foot fridge and I lifted it up
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so that I could put the convection
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underneath it and a little bit more
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storage underneath you've got quite a
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lot of shallow stores there as well I do
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this is my shower behind this wall and
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between the studs I decided to put the
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wall on the other side and make this
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three and a half inch storage effect can
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we have a look in the bathroom
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absolutely come on this is it got the
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Nexus hit composting toilet there
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absolutely how are you finding using
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that one here after three months I have
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no complaints it's a little weird to get
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used to and weird to tell your friends
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how to use it but other than that
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there's no issue with it and then your
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showers there yeah this is my shower
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it's a 36 by 36 fiberglass shell all one
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piece so it's really simple I picked
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that one up off the side of the road
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actually I was out for a run and saw the
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shower and sprinted home to grab the
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truck luckily I was still there so that
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was free and then what's this area
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behind you here right here's my my desk
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area for now I'm in college so I need a
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place to study and get a my compute
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things and I don't like the idea of of
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mixing work space with your play space
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so when I'm on the couch I like to relax
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but back here it's kind of a separate
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office area where I can get my work done
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what do you study accounting accounting
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yeah so you're gonna get used to sitting
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at a desk then yeah I mean that's just
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my degree who knows after that fair
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enough
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but it really helped me with all the the
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finances of the deal another thing this
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space access is potential future closet
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space thank you as you can see on this
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side cuz where I hang all my clothes and
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have Mike you know storage area right
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but you know if there's ever someone
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else that's gonna move in here they have
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this exact same amount of space over on
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this side gotcha
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you've got a really nice deep sink here
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in the kitchen too haven't you yeah
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thank you I really tried to get the
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biggest one I could get because I don't
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like looking at houses with small sinks
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and thinking of how they're gonna do all
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their dishes and that small thing and if
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you don't cook a lot that's probably
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okay but I like to cook and create a lot
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of dishes and so it's easy just to throw
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them all in there very cool did you do
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all the cabinetry yourself I did I
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actually found these hardwood oak
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cabinet doors in a dumpster no man just
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used a bunch of scrap wood to frame
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around them and it really just worked
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out nice and then I'm guessing this
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ladder here puts us in geo sleeping loft
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it does tell me about what you've used
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to create this letter because this is
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really interesting yeah in all my
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research into tiny houses I really liked
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people that are using the galvanized
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metal it's definitely kind of a
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centerpiece in here it really is what
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can I have a look up and your loft
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absolutely all right hey this is really
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nice up here yeah this is it
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you know climb up the ladder and just a
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bed up here I made it a foot extra but
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pretty much it's all just for sleeping
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up here I do have a little bit of
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storage over where the shower is and
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then I have some more those lockers over
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here nice no but after three months I
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still haven't put anything in him so I
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felt a lot of extra space you've been
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living in this tiny house now for three
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months how is it working out I love it
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so far I mean every time I pull up at
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night to my house you know there's
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while on my face just because I built
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that and that's where I'm staying
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and what has doing this tiny house
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project told you about yourself
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taught me I can do more than I think I
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can you know before doing some of these
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things like electrical I thought I might
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contract that part out but then after
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doing some research you know get my
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hands dirty and going through the whole
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process it seems a lot simpler now and
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so that's something that at first I
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thought I couldn't do but with enough
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work found out I could and what would
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you say the finished budget for this
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house would be somewhere around
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$15,246.86 answer yeah kept all my
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receipts no kidding you did Wow and what
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a remarkable figure to have completed a
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house to this standard thank you yeah I
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was a little impressed myself after
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hearing other people come out around
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around 20 even for the reclaimed houses
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well I am super impressed with what
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you've accomplished here thank you so
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much for sharing this incredible project
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with me absolutely thanks for coming
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rolling quarters it makes a lot of sense
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while saving some dollars there's no
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question about it the best DIY Home has
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created a wonderful house for both
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Bradley and peanut here these two are
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gonna have an amazing time together
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during college
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you
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