DIY Cargo Trailer Tiny House - Stealth Camper W/ Clever Murphy Bed Design

there's five different types of wood in here which is unique got everything in here that i need i got my table saw my chop saw most of the time when people come in here they think where do you sleep hi i'm jim i have this eight and a half by 20 cargo trailer that i built myself and converted into a tiny house so let me give you a tour [Music] welcome to my tiny house on wheels i'm a self-employed carpenter so this is what i do i basically did this all myself in about two months the cam this veneer is actually is african soprano which when i worked in the shipyard i got this in sheets of veneer leftovers so we could buy it so that's what i did and i've been saving it for probably the last 10 15 years just for this this is just birch plywood i just edged the put the veneer on i get a lot of compliments on it because of the wood i didn't put any door pulls on it because i don't like door pulls these were kind of it took me a couple of weeks to build these cabinets because they're up in the v and the nose and there's nothing square in a cargo trailer like this so i had to build it basically one piece at a time and build it in place the air conditioner is in here it's just a portable honeywell air conditioner so i'll show you that so that's it works pretty good it actually keeps it pretty cool in here i got a pretty good um storage space in here this i put the shelf in the shelf goes all the way through it's kind of a mess in there but um i wanted the shelf so i could have extra storage and i do have a lot of storage in here and even down below i mean i have the the four drawers which again there's a lot of crap in there because you look tiny that's how it works these cabinets on the corner here are only they're kind of like a little triangle in there but there's still it's extra storage space and i stuff in there whatever i can and where i you know need to i like it simple so this is i have one pan it's all i need i can cook anything i need in there i can even make spaghetti in here i have this one burner butane cook plate which works perfect and it fits just in there nice that was kind of an accident because when i built the cabinets i wasn't really planning for that because i didn't even have that at the time but it works out awesome i got the toaster oven but i don't use it much but it's kind of handy for you know i can make pizza in there or whatever you know simple and i like it simple so that's what i do this can that i kept i didn't put the shelf in here but it's in all the other ones because for cereal boxes or something taller i you know i can put that in there right here i got the the two usb outlets here i got one on this side one on this side so that i can plug in whatever usb you know my phone or or ipad or computer or whatever i need to i just put the microwave up here temporarily eventually i'm going to build more cabinets here and i built this composting toilet too which is going to go on the bottom and then the refrigerator will go on top of that and then the microwave these three things are going to be all in like one cabinet and then i'll put another cabinet next to it the bug shield i drove semi for 10 years so that was my cb handle so that's why that's on there the fridge is small i mean it's it's only four cubic feet but it works fine for me i mean i'm kind of a diet mountain dual-holic but it works good it's perfect [Music] the biggest challenge that i that i found was getting rid of everything from my house i live in the house for 25 years and i move into an area that's basically 15 by 8 inside so i had to downsize a lot and i lived in it while i was building it which was tough i had a foot and a half of crap inside this trailer from the front to the back i'll never do it that way again if i ever do decide to do another one because you have to move everything from one side to the other or the front to the back or from inside to outside plus i had all of my tools it was a pain but you do what you got to do this is eventually going to be a couch it can everything in here kind of serves two purposes so this is storage underneath which is kind of a junk hole right now most of the time when people come in here they look at this and they look at this wall they see the picture of my corvette on there and they they think where do you sleep so i went to harbor freight and i wanted a murphy bed so i went to harbor freight and i got a atv winch and i mounted it in the back in the garage which i'll show you that later and it actually has a remote control and i made this picture frame with a finger pull on the back side of it because i have to pull on it a little bit it's kind of noisy so i'm going to put it down it just hooks in on the bottom here on a little grommet thing and then i unhook it and just toss it in the back i didn't do a traditional murphy bed with the the murphy bed hardware i just put hinges on the bottom butt hinges and when it folds up it goes tight against the wall so that's why there's that um like a foot gap between the back of the bed and the back wall i didn't know what to do in the back here so i figured i'd put these little shelves in here and i'm kind of a t-shirt junkie so i folded up all my t-shirts and i put them on both sides and i wanted the idea that the bed when it went up it disappeared and it kind of does that these are actually storage these lift off they just kind of sit there and i got little pegs on it that hold them in place the other side i put pillows and blankets and stuff in because i don't want to have that stuff laying around i'm kind of picky about not having a lot of extra crap laying around i'm a self-employed carpenter so i built everything in my head kind of a blueprint in my head before i even start and this was all kind of figured out except for kind of this with the murphy bed and stuff i didn't exactly know what i was going to do there until i started building it there's actually five different types of wood in here the cabinets are african zibrano the door frame and the top of these are ebony the window frames are wenge and then i have the knotty pine and then the floor and the the trim around the step for the door where you come in that's oak [Music] if you're thinking about doing something like this and you're younger older like i'm older i should have done this 25 years ago all while i've been doing this you know for this last almost a year now all i think about is why didn't i do this sooner if you're a young person find yourself a remote job buy a bus buy a cargo trailer convert it live the dream this is this is it you can work on the road you can see the country just do it don't wait this is the garage it's eight feet wide inside five and a half feet deep like i said before i'm a self-employed carpenter so i take all my tools with me wherever i go i can drop this tailgate and i can basically build a house if i wanted to or if i needed to less the materials of course got everything in here that i need i got my table saw my chop saw all my hand tools over here i got all my clamps for building cabinets and stuff i am a cabinet maker too levels um i do have a diesel heater in here which that's the tank ford there this is the atv winch that raises and lowers the bed like i said again it's just a harbor freight atv winch it works awesome eventually i'm thinking about putting a shower in here i was going to put it inside but i like the big open room in there when i started this well it'll be a year in november um i went down to georgia once i got my my trailer done um two months it took me to do this and then i started helping other people working on their buses or i helped the gail work on her van so i plan on doing that when i go traveling in the winter time i come up here i live in wisconsin i got work lined up and i stay up there up here and i work during the summer make enough money to hopefully survive on over the winter then i plan on going down south or west i'm not sure yet and then working on vans or buses or whatever i can find eventually i'm going to put solar on here so i can be completely off the grid i have lights back here i have an outlet here and hopefully i can just plug my tools in here with the solar and i can just do what i need to do right from the back of the trailer right now um i have a shore power plug on the it's between the wheel well it's kind of like so it's hidden so you don't really see it but i just plug in and i use a generator or i plug into an outlet somewhere wherever i'm at if i can but the solar is the ultimate goal [Music] thanks for coming and seeing my little tiny house on wheels my instagram is cheeseheadtraveler if you want to follow me on instagram hopefully we'll meet on the road somewhere and if you if you see me by all means stop and say hi [Music] you

Channel: Tiny Home Tours

Views: 1,120,951

Keywords: tiny house, tiny house on wheels, living big in a tiny house, tiny house england, tiny house uk, tiny house movement, tiny home, small house, small spaces, small house design, alternative living, architecture, affordable home, off the grid, small space living, tiny house life, tiny home uk, diy tiny house, diy home

Id: 6aeUrRMuGdY

Length: 10min 39sec (639 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 14 2021