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Luxury, High-End Tiny House After Leaving Ex Large Home - YouTube
Channel: Tiny House Giant Journey
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To most people choosing to live in a
tiny house might sound like choosing a
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life full of compromise.
But in today's video,
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you're going to meet one couple who
found a way to fit every luxury that they
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enjoyed in their 5,000 square foot,
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former home into a high
end tiny house on wheels.
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Are you guys ready? Because I guarantee
you this tour is going to blow you away.
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Hi, I'm Julia and I'm Robert
and we are tiny living,
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living large.
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Watching on one of the channels,
the tiny homes. And we were like,
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we looked at each other and
we said, we can do this. Yeah,
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we certainly can do this. We thought,
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what if we built our own
tiny home and we would
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be able to stay in one
place for a month and
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get a sense of the community. And
so that's how the idea started.
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We took a tiny home building class
that sort of also validated that
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there was nothing there
that we couldn't do.
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But we also learned some
of the fundamentals, the
fact that, you know, Hey,
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you're building a house, that's going to
go down the road. What does that mean?
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The previous home that we lived
in was over 5,000 square feet.
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We enjoyed it thoroughly.
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I mean, people would say
you went from 5,000 to 300.
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Maybe that doesn't even make
sense, but again has not been,
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it's not been difficult at all
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There definitely were people
that were questioning the motives
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of why would you do this? And it
almost to them was a downgrade.
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Why do you have to do that? And
they couldn't see the benefit of it.
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They only saw the negatives of going
from large to small it's just because
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we want to go tiny because we want to
live more of that sort of lifestyle and
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being on the road and so forth.
Why would we have to compromise it?
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And I think that was one of the key
reasons we chose to do a tiny house versus
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maybe some of the alternatives. Yes.
This tiny home is on the upper end,
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but there's absolutely,
there's no compromise.
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Makes a difference from a
sustainability perspective.
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There isn't the waste
that we have found in our
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larger home with this smaller
space makes us feel better
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that our footprint isn't
so huge and extravagant.
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The question we often get is
what's the cost of this tiny home,
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because we have so much in it.
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It's also hard to compare because
we didn't have it built for us.
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We built it ourselves. You know,
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you can't count the labor and the
sweat and equity. If you will,
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that we put in and you
know, a material cost,
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we are probably somewhere
just North of $125,000
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from a tiny home. It's a lot, there's This is a high end,
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tiny house people that perhaps
we sort of associate with,
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which are sort of the
empty nesters, if you will.
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And on the road that have now worked
and so forth, that want to move in.
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This is quite affordable.
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Welcome to the interior of our tiny home.
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When we started thinking
about the design of this home,
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we wanted a lot of space to entertain.
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My favorite part is the kitchen.
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One of the features I love in
this kitchen is my baking station.
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I have a tiny mixer.
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And so this comes very handy when
I am doing my gluten free bagels,
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my gluten free cakes. Love it.
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Another feature that I absolutely
love is my coffee station.
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We have an expresso machine
the glasses here, the cups,
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and then I also have my toaster.
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Another feature is the
refrigerator, plenty of space,
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more space than actually we need,
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but always good to have another feature
that we didn't want to give up on the
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dishwasher. Lots of
room in the dishwasher.
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It's a full size one
because we wanted to host.
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We wanted to make sure that all
of our appliances were full size.
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So the refrigerator is full-size.
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The dishwasher is full size.
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Our stove is also
full-sized four burners.
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But since I love to host,
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I felt that there was a lot
that I can do with four burners,
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the pot filler, I consider it a necessity.
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So we did put a pot filler in here.
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The steam oven is also a great feature.
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We bake breads in there and
it's artisan breads comes out.
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Absolutely perfect. The
timing for dinners is great.
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Since I love to cook, I
had to the spice rack,
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a sliding spice rack.
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Another feature that we
designed primarily for myself
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is this sliding ladder.
It's nice and slim.
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And I just take it out
and use it to reach the
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pantry.
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So our fan is actually quite
powerful just because we didn't
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want the smells of cooking to
be absorbed by the interior,
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the tiled back splash.
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We get a lot of questions with regards
to that because we're mobile and we
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didn't want the grout to crack.
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So we took a lot of care into researching.
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It's a flexible grout that when
we're moving, it doesn't crack.
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So our tiny stove, you notice
it right when you walk in,
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it has a oven.
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I do a lot of pizzas and breads in here.
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It keeps this tiny house,
very warm, very cozy,
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works great. We love it.
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And thinking about a
fan for the tiny house,
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we knew that we wanted
the air to circulate.
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I just didn't want a very loud fan.
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We purchased this fan is actually
very quiet, does a great job.
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And it looks good.
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I'm especially proud of this
shower because I built it myself.
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I knew that we wanted to
go with a tile of sorts.
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However,
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the typical tile weighs a lot and the
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mother of Pearl is very, very light.
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So one of the features in the
tiny home that was a must for me,
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was a toilet room.
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And it works wonderfully
because it has its own separate
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space has doors that close for
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discreteness. And it is a nature's head.
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We've been using it for about
a month now, no issues at all.
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It's been working very, very well.
We have storage in the ceiling,
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which is more storage than we ever
need, but it's always nice to have
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in terms of the washer and dryer,
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it is a Mila very energy
efficient let's head up onto the
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bedroom.
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I thought at first that it
would feel claustrophobic here,
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but actually it doesn't.
There's plenty of space.
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It's a queen size bed.
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We have lots of storage for clothes.
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We have storage on the floor
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and then we also wanted
windows on both sides so
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that there's air ventilation
very important to get a
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very well rested sleep.
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One of the things that was key in our
design was to have office space for us to
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both be working this year is my
working space at a standard stand up
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a working space.I just pull
this out of the base if you will.
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I have my mouse, I have my keyboard below.
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And then I used a screen
for my daily work.
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This is also then use for
a TV in the lounge area so
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we can move it to the side. It
will go up and it'll spin around.
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And then we will have the ability to
watch movies or other things upstairs
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as well. Below here,
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we have the drawers for the wine.
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And then on the other side, similarly,
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we have the drawers for the glasses.
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I will take this table.
I will pull it out.
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I will spin it around and
then I will lift it up
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and I can secure it. And then we have
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the table leg that I can put underneath.
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And now I have a bar top. So
now we can sit, stand around,
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talking with people who are cooking
in the kitchen. And it's just,
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it's actually quite
comfortable. One of the,
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probably most distinctive features
of our home and one of the key design
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features was to be able to be
sustainable and using solar energy.
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But where do we put, where
do we put all that stuff? Uh,
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the batteries and so forth.
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That's always a challenge we knew
underneath the stairs might be an option.
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And we talked about how do we flip up
the stairs to do that? And then, uh,
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I think Julia came up with
this brilliant thought that,
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that we could slide it around.
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So this is actually a kind
of a neat design where we
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can slide the stairs away
to really the guts of the
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system. So here you see
the Tesla batteries.
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We have the equivalent
of two Tesla power walls,
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actually four Tesla model S modules.
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They came out of a, a donor car.
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If you want to call it that these
are 48 volt battery systems.
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We have it running to
a Magnum inverter and
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then a midnight solar converter system.
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And we have 1800 Watts of
solar on the, on the roof.
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All of the lights in this
house are led, of course.
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And they're also all drawn
down to the central hub,
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which is using a home
assistant. Okay, Google turn on,
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all lights,
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tying into the automation was a great
thing because I can be anywhere in the
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world at my tiny is on the internet.
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One of the things that is nice with
systems is that you can
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really create an interface.
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So this is just a regular iPad
and they have a utility where you
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can build a quite customized,
uh, if you need it to, or,
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or follow their templates.
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So I have the ability to control all
of my lights in groups or individually.
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I have shades in here for,
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for the house and I can
actually see my battery voltage,
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probably I would say around noontime,
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this thing was at a hundred percent
that I have all my temperatures,
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my floor heating, cause I have the
radiant floor. Heatings my overall, uh,
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AC system. We have our
weather station on top.
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So we can look at when do we can
look at inside, outside temperatures,
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and then you can start using
automations to do tasks.
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Here, I'm sitting in the lounge. Uh,
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actually this lounge was originally
designed to be our bedroom.
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We realized in wintertime, where
are we going to sit? You know,
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we can't sit outside and where
are we going to sit in the,
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and where are we going to have
friends over and so forth? So we,
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we sort of pivoted a little bit and, uh,
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instead of having sort of a guest
bedroom up, uh, on the loft,
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we made this a lounge area
where we can actually sit up to
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eight people around this table and,
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and we can have it in a
cocktail configuration,
which is sort of the low, uh,
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as you can see a little folded up table.
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And then when we bring it up
and fold it out and we put
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our Leafs in it, it becomes
a dining room table.
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But then the nice thing is
that if we do have guests,
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we can then take that table,
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lower it down to the level of
where the seats are and put
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the cushions from the
back down in the metal.
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And we have a full queen
size bed here as well.
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Yeah, here we are outside. We had
to design it with travel in mind,
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meaning structurally rigid,
but also lightweight.
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We chose a gooseneck, the
reason for that, but again,
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we're going to be on the road a lot and
goose snacks are significantly easier to
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handle and drive that it's a lot more
stable. They're easy to maneuver.
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Once we get in, we have a triple axle,
the structure of this tiny house,
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we built it with steel
framing, lightweight, cheating,
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saved about 3000 pounds of weight.
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We've got triple pane windows.
It's absolutely no heat loss.
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And it also has a sound
barrier if you will back.
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So we don't hear anything from the
outside. Once we close those doors,
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did the sign on the house, as you can
see, really accommodates two sets of,
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of solar panels and sort of the angle
in that center portion will act as
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a deck for us,
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probably one of the most distinctive
features of the tiny house.
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And that's the window
wall door combination,
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tiny homes are small.
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It's very easy to feel that you're cramped
bringing the outside in was kind of
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our, one of our key objectives. Having
the ability to completely open up.
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It's really a 16 by 16 foot kitchen.
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The decking is about seven by 13 feet.
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We actually store it underneath
the trailer in sections.
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So we have brackets that we had the
trailer manufacturer put on when we
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ordered it.
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So we put the sections in over here and
then we have stoppers on each side to
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secure them.
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This is our tow vehicle, which
is a converted semi-truck,
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it's a Volvo 780. This
one has the single axle.
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Most of the converted semis
that are towing RVs are
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usually single axle cause
it'll be easier to deal with.
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And what people do is they really
go through a conversion process.
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They buy a used semi-truck and
then they have it professionally
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done. And there are a few of these
suppliers around the country,
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and then they build the bed,
which you see on the back,
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which really provides
all the extra storage.
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We have a drum box on the back as
well, that houses all our skis,
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our sporting equipment, some
extra tools and so forth.
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And you also see we have our car there.
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So we have a smart car and electric smart
car that once we get to a destination,
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we lower it down with the ramps
and we can then drive it around
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and select it. So it's,
it's very, eco-friendly.
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These things are used to pulling
80,000 pounds and with our
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tiny weighing about, 22,000 pounds,
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that is not an issue it's really
comfortable. This whole section,
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basically up to the back
here is on air suspension.
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So was an air cab. The
seats are air cushioned.
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My mileage on this is about
between seven and eight and a half,
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which I think is actually
quite respectable.
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It's been overall.
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A very positive response.
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It makes us feel good because we
hope that this inspires others to do
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the same.
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There is so much possibility
and it's just bringing
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awareness to people that they can do this.
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Should they choose people get
inspired just by the tiny house,
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down the road.
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The more people see it,
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that it is a possibility
acceptance becomes the norm.
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And there's so many wonderful
benefits that come from this.
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