Adorable Tiny House Built By Love, Family and Community

a home is so much more than the walls that we build around ourselves it's a place which encompasses our whole lives and gives us a little bit of solace from the crazy world around us today we've traveled to Silverton Oregon to visit a very special tiny house on wheels where some wonderful memories are ready to be made [Music] hey Bryce hi Karissa hello welcome lovely to meet you yeah you as well this house is just so beautiful thank you so much what was it actually inspired the style of this bill well I had been studying tiny houses for a long time and been thinking about it for years and years and just looking at the different styles of all the different tiny houses this one seemed to work the best for what I wanted and yeah and you built this place together with your dad didn't you yeah yeah I did we planned it together and we gathered everything and it was this amazing experience we were close before but after the build it was just like yeah even closer so when I was initially introduced to tiny houses it was really appealing I had been wanting to do a straw bale build but this just was much more practical and feasible and I didn't really have building experience myself but my dad had a little bit and so when we decided to go ahead and do this it was great because my parents kind of came to me and said hey we will give you a loan you know you can borrow some money and we'll help you build this if this is something you really want to do and I had been kind of getting tired of living in the city and was just ready to kind of downsize and settle in and I felt like it was time and then being able to loan me that money actually made it possible and then having my dad's help and building this home with my dad has been have a really beautiful experience just to have a project to do together something to build together and there's something about having that camaraderie I guess with my dad that's been really really special and the end result of the build is just magical the materials have all just really blended in this project haven't they they really have it's been quite amazing because we didn't plan for the specific style so much as I had a overall idea of what I wanted but as we found the materials we just discovered that they were all just melding together so well and it just turned into this beautiful space that I wouldn't want any other way at all it's exactly how I would have wanted it and the property that this home is sitting on is just beautiful as well how did you actually come to be here well my parents lived downtown in this little town of Silverton for a while and then they found this space for sale and it was just this incredible two and a half acres and they basically said yeah move out of Portland come and park your house here and it's been the most amazing process of building that relationship with my parents more and more being right there I can go and have coffee with them in the morning and stuff and and just being in a space where you know I'm surrounded by nature and all these beautiful things and it's reminding me what is important and now I can if I ever do want to you know buy a big home and all of that have a family of my own I can save up for that and and not feel the weight of that right now and I can still travel and do what I want at this way that's great and the ports that you've built onto the tiny house just adds this really nice outdoor space doesn't it I love it I love making my coffee in the morning and I come and sit in my rocking chair and just you know read a book or just be quiet and listen to the birds and if it's raining it's fine I've got this covered space and what sizes this tiny house this is on an eighteen by eight and a half foot trailer so it's I don't even know the exact square footage at this point but it is definitely under 200 square feet it's around between 160 and a hundred and eighty I think somewhere I really love the way that the wood is offset against the metal siding yeah so just about a month or so ago we stained this with a dark brown chocolatey kind of stain I think it goes well and this actually was funny because I wanted this was something I wanted initially out of it right out of the gate and it actually ended up being one of the more expensive pieces of the house you'd think rusty metal would be cheap right but we've got it from a salvage yard and it was exactly what I wanted so I thought well I'll splurge a little bit on this piece and it has its own little character I really like that about it well I would love to have a look inside yeah please come in thank you very much I absolutely love the style of this poem thank you immediately I can't help but notice all these little woodland creatures that you have everywhere I kind of love all the little the little critters and the little tchotchkes the little characters it makes it feel like home to me yeah and this basil pine is just gorgeous yeah we actually got a really good deal on this I mean that kills the trees so it's kind of a waste product away but I think it's got such a beautiful color to it and it was my brother's idea actually to do it on this kind of angle here in the corner and I really like how it feels it kind of you know draws you into the space to the couch and makes you want to kind of sit and snuggle in for a while I think I really like that you can sit and you know drink your coffee inside and just stare at the walls and you know like I you would be cloud gazing or something like that you find little pictures and stuff like that and in the different knots and the different flaws if you want to call them that I think they're really beautiful and tell me about the design of the couch the couch is actually in my grandmother's old dresser really yeah it had six drawers in it and we cut two of them off and now we've turned it into four so it's still a little bit tall for a couch but but it works I have a little footstool so that if I'm sitting for a long period of time my feet don't dangle and fall asleep and you've got a good amount of storage for your books don't you I do yeah that was one of the main things I wanted to have in the house was a really nice place to store some books and of course my little woodland creatures and things like that this was one of the original design ideas that I had right into the door I wanted a space to throw my shoes down below and then a spot where I could put cookbooks and reading books and journals and things like that so and it's a pretty cold day outside but I am lovely and woman here you've obviously insulated the space very well yeah actually it's fiberglass I wish I could have gotten something like denim and that kind of thing but because it was free I thought well I'll do this but there's no formaldehyde there's no you no harsh chemicals in it as far as that goes so yeah it's very well insulated there's a rigid insulation in the ceiling and that has worked really well so the space is just so heated with an electric heater yeah it is at this point I'm actually just heating with this little guy I used it all last winter and it was fine it worked great and what about your power and water hookups gas all that sort of thing yeah I'm attached to my parents power so I use water from our we're on a well here and there's actually a spigot just behind my house that I just attach right - I've got it through a little filtration system and then I have composting toilet so I don't need septic and then my stove my oven and my stove top is propane all nice and simple yeah and then speaking of your stove here is your lovely kitchen yeah this is it this is this face it's actually bigger than than some of the kitchens and apartments that I've lived in before so yeah it's it's great lots of work top space I've got this little cutting board right here so there's even more space to work with and I love to bake so I can you know roll out pie crust and stuff like that right here in the space and then you've got all the appliances yeah I've got I had salvaged this sink actually my mom found this I think at an auction and we just kind of shined it up and we just bought new hardware for it and the oven and stove actually I got from the Habitat ReStore for a hundred bucks it was already plumbed for propane so we didn't have to do anything at all we just cleaned it up and plugged it in so we had all the plumbing and stuff like this over here so I decided to have the bathroom on the end and I just kind of flowed from the sink to the shower kind of space over here so all of the water is kind of on one side my dad plumbed in for a flush toilet if I ever wanted to get one or if I ever so decided to sell and the people who bought it wanted a flush toilet but I don't need it right now with the composting toilet the shower stall we bought a pan for the bottom but we didn't have one that would fit properly for the height of the space so we had to make one kind of improvised the lid class and the bathroom is striking it's probably the most excited I was about any of the things that we had in the house my friend actually made it for me and he basically said go and find a window like a sash and just bring it to me and we'll take care of it and so I went I found this one and it was all burnt out like it had been in a fire and he took it home and he cleaned it up and it had this amazing 1910 privacy glass in it and he utilized it in the design I told him I said do whatever you want just greens and blues is kind of what I'm wanting color wise and this was a design he came up with he says he thought you know put a bird on it and came up with something so beautiful there's so many things about it like the the green glass is leftover scraps from the Multnomah whisky library so I yeah it's one of my one of my most favorite favorite things how about the tiny house and then you've chosen a letter to access your loft yes actually I wanted to have something that was stationery something I didn't have to move around a lot and find a place to hook on the wall and things like that and I know that a lot of tiny houses will have shelving underneath and it's really great for storage but I wanted to be able to see through it to have that visual line through because I felt like it would keep the space feeling more open and a little bit bigger did you want to see up in the left yeah I'd love to so yeah I wanted a nice place too soft spot to land when I came up instead of climbing right into the mattress space and so I had this area here and my sister actually had this sheepskin rug it's actually a really nice spot because I can get up in the morning and do some stretching if I want to or just sit and look out the window for a little while and have a little quiet headspace absolutely and you have such a beautiful view out the window this must be such a nice space to wake up in oh my goodness it's the best I still pinch myself every morning and just think this can't be right now but it is and I love it I love the space that I get to look out into and I picked this spot on the property for this view specifically actually I wanted to see through the trees into that clearing waking up in a space that you've built with your own hands you must just have such a tremendous sense of accomplishment from that it's an incredibly empowering feeling I never thought that I would have been able to do something like this and now on the other side of it I still almost like I did this how did this happen that a lot of the credit goes to my dad he really pushed me into it in a really lovely wonderful loving way and was right there with me and and did you know all that hard work with me and taught me so much so I have him to thank for a lot of it and can I ask you about the cost of this project yeah it is somewhere I don't have an exact number but it's somewhere between 18 and 20 thousand altogether so what would you say that you'll favorite things about this home ah I think probably that it was made by people that I love and that every time I walk in the door I see that I remember it so we had a build day and a bunch of friends and family came there was like 30 people and we put up all the framing in one day and it was really amazing my background my heritage is like Amish Mennonite and so one of the guys who was an old college buddy of my dad's actually wrote Amish tiny-house rising on one of the two by fours that's around the doorframe actually so it's in the wall somewhere there I actually I told my parents I said I feel like I'm getting married like all these people are here to support me and encouraged me and helped me build this thing and just the memories of that and feelings so much of the love from the community and the family that helped me build a space and I think that's that's probably my most favorite thing about the house I kind of feel like my house and I have sort of a love story before it was completely finished I remember coming in and cleaning it one day like sweeping up from all the sawdust that was on the floor and stuff and I had my radio playing and there was this love song on and it was funny because I started thinking about it as like this love song between my house and me and it's really become a character in my life it's become a a really beautiful spot in my heart and it's been really special that way living in this space just feels right it just feels like home you know I it in this space and it was made for me and and I feel it every moment that I'm in the house and it's really really special yeah charissa this home is just so beautiful I really can't express enough just how welcoming the space feels to be in thank you so much for sharing this with me thanks for coming just as beautiful as this tiny house itself is the story about how it was built so much more than just nails and timber went into this space this was a place that was built by love family friendship and connections and that is what truly makes this place a home [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Living Big In A Tiny House

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Keywords: Tiny House, Tiny House Movement, Tiny House Build, DIY Tiny House, Amish Tiny House, Amish Tiny House Raising, Tiny Home, Tiny Home on Wheels, Tiny House on Wheels, Living Big in a Tiny House, Small House, Tiny House Oregon, Tiny House USA, Tiny House Story, Tiny House Tour, Tiny Home Tour, Dream Tiny House, Dream House, Eco Home, Little house

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Length: 14min 3sec (843 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 23 2017