The Most Cleverly Designed DIY Tiny House ~ ELEVATOR BED

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hi my name is Greg with Rocky Mountain tiny houses were based at the Durango Colorado we're here at the Colorado tiny house festival this weekend and my wife and I brought our own personal house this is it's not quite done we're about 90 percent complete but we're calling this house the San Juan it's got quite a few interesting features and like to show you so we're on the outside real quick this is a 24 foot trailer technically cornered the corners 24 feet the trailer made did some custom touches for us they added a 30-degree V nose and then from the V nose we always tilt up about 15 degrees too so it's a compound angle kind of looks like the bow of a ship you know if I wasn't trying to go for ship but it kind of turned out that way and everyone says it looks like a ship I'm like well okay this is our full-time home we're gonna move in we've been living tiny and my smaller house the first one I built a little 16 foot two people two dogs really cramped you know is never designed for two people so when Steph and I got married we kind of knew we'd be building a bigger nicer house for the both of us and so this is the result of that and so you know being a professional builder you want a nice house you might as well do some cool things and you know I've got the tools and the know-how to do some of these things so I was saying it was 24 but it feels more like a 26 is kind of why we tell people it's more like a 26 foot house so we've got 90% reclaimed material on the outside so on the passenger side wall that's all barn wood and we'll see these portholes from the inside and a little bit but those are you know real authentic portholes in a geometric pattern the barnwood is the sunray kind of shape to match up with the the roofline we did a it's reclaimed corrugated wainscot and that wraps around most of the house and then on the the rear part that is I've always called it 5 v crimp some people call it 5 star it's a real popular roofing for barns and agricultural buildings back in the day but we've found some of that in Denver at a repurpose store and why not it looks cool so that's sort of the siding the roofing is all new material I don't like to put reclaimed stuff up there I need the durability and that's just corrugated 7/8 corrugated 26 gauge little thicker so it's it we thought it would be troublesome trying to bend it to the radius of the roof but it actually we just started in the low spot and worked our way out and it really just conformed kind of nicely and we didn't have to do anything special really it was general enough slope that it fit you know another cool thing about the outside the French doors those you know the doors your portal into your home and so a lot of people safe even if you're building big homes that's where that's one of those things you should put money into that's curb appeal it's like that's your entrance so let's we put a lot of time making these doors they're all handmade in my shop my local glass guy was able to cut water jet that tempered glass for the door panes and we also got really nice hardware we didn't want just basic hardware so you'll see we'll do some close-ups it's kind of a Victorian French knob sets and then even the hinges are pretty fancy - it's not my typical style but my wife she's a Francophile and so she likes some of the old European stuff and Flair so that's kind of where that cut you'll see some other touches like that - also you know notable is the fold down porch so when we travel the porch folds up and then the awning which is two solar panels it's an aluminum frame two solar panels that folds down on top of and I'll get you a picture what that looks like when it's all folded up and it's you can't tell from where we're at but that portion of the house is actually recessed three inches so there's a little offset so that all that stuff can fit in that recess and we're not sticking out past our eight-six because we framed the house at 8 foot for our siding is right at 86 you know we might even be just a pinch over in some places so we were really pushing the width limit on that so I did not want my porch or awning to stick out past that so that's why the wall is recessed in a little bit the backside has a really cool decorative feature so that's all shakes on the rear and it has a color gradient seven shades of blue so we start with a near white and it gets darker towards the the big circle window and then it lightens back up towards the top yeah it's just this really cool it's a real simple thing to do but the effect is is just really i popping trailermate also welded on a hitch receiver on the rear because we knew we'd be traveling with this house a little bit so you know as you can see we got a bike rack we got our two bikes and in between you know shows we can just hop on a bike and get a little exercise take the dogs for a run and that's that's kind of a nice feature especially if you're towing with something if you don't have room on your truck to carry extra stuff that that's a good way to carry your bikes or boats or extra cargo whatever else you might need that's the main things on the outside roof shape materials and for awning like I was saying earlier that that's 720 watts is 2 panels so when we're on the road that's enough power for all our lights or fans or laptop it's not quite enough for the fridge and some bigger you know we'll have a mini split in here too it's not enough for that but for those things you know we will have enough wattage for that and then we're parked back home which is that's our our primary parking is back in Durango I've got three more panels it's another 750 watts and then we're about 1.5 kilowatts at that point and then with the batteries that we have that that's a big enough system to run the fridge and the mini split and everything basically they're a Centennial they're 400 amp hours they're really big 6 volt batteries they add 500 pounds to the house but it's kind of for being off-grid it's it's kind of a necessary evil tote those things around but so we got you know 1,600 amp power total power run those things I want to say they were probably like 500 apiece what would be really cool and I think this will happen in a few years with the the lithium technology comes about you can get twice the capacity for half the weight also like three times the cost but but the trade-off I think is worth it so we're gonna go inside so now we're on the inside of the house and if you thought the outside of the school you know we're just getting started there's really they say the Devils in the details and this house is no exception to that we just went crazy on the details because we weren't having a pee builder so time wasn't an issue for us and we just some projects I'm like well I don't care if it takes a week let's just do it and make it nice and cool and share that with people so you know perhaps the most unique feature on the inside the elevator bed and people have done elevator beds before and they're not or not the first one to do it but you know we wanted a slightly different take you know most people are using garage door motors and motorized things we would decided to do a manual system even though we're off grid and we probably will have power all the time I'm like well if something fails and I don't have power and then we're on the road we want to go to bed I can't let the bed down you know so I came up with it's all garage door parts it's a chain hoist that's geared down to make it easier and then the drums the little pulleys those are just the torsion bar on a garage door that's that's the drums that pull that pull the cable so it's all off-the-shelf parts I had to make some of the brackets to mount it to the wall and you know that was a little tricky but in the end it works pretty well I'll show you these guys they flip out so that the bed has a spot to rest on the back corners are fixed so we don't have to flip those so the chain keep right here that keeps it from coming down it will come down on its own the bed is about 150 pounds and so it's not terribly heavy but it's heavy enough that it'll yeah you don't want to be under it when it comes down [Music] so that's all we do to let it down and we haven't been living in past two weeks on the road and it's quite nice to sleep it in this thing's we don't need a ladder we can both just hop up here the queen-size bed two people and then we don't wait what we do wake up and we've got these 360 views these big windows on you know circle window and these two big square windows all around this so it's just like it's actually we don't have blinds so it's almost a little too much Suns been rising like 5:30 we don't usually get that to seven so it's been kind of waking up early with the Sun it's it's cool but it's just it's a little too bright we're gonna get some window coverings she started picked out some pleated insulated blinds to come in here now this guy we're not quite sure I think it's just going to end up being some kind of drape that way you know you can't make a circle blind so I think it'll be some sort of drape that that we hang up here somehow it's a really easy method this material is just quarter-inch pine tongue and groove they call it a V edge you can buy it at Home Depot I buy it in bulk I get like pallets because we do so much of this stuff I get a discount and I got it's all over the shop and well it stands light and this is a real you'll see a lot of the stuff in tiny houses all the time but what you do for the whitewash so you that you like you said you can let some of the wood grain pop through like there you can see an eye you can see some of the variations in the wood you can buy a pickling stain off the shelf you know a Minwax or some other products out there or you can go to the old school route and that's just get some white paint water it down 5050 with water so just a one to one mixture and it just what really washes the paint down and then that's how you get your whitewash and then it is kind of a thinner finish so it would be a good idea to put clear coat just want at least one if not two so that clear coat will help it stay a little more dirt you won't you know fingerprints and you'd rub things all the time it just keeps it a little cleaner well let me back up the back wall is actually just dry what quarter inch drywall so we have SIPP framing it's a panel constructions Oh SB skins both sides so we're not having to try to hit studs everywhere that's more than the main reasons I like sips because it just gives you a solid substrate in the entire house and you know that made put in these brackets up easier I didn't have to have a stud I can screw straight to those sips straight in the wall you just have to use coarse thread screws and they give you numbers the SIP company and they're like this screw can hold you know pull out as 250 pounds sheers you know a thousand pounds and so you can do the math and I've got like 10 screws per bracket you know I know they're gonna hold just based on the ratings from the sip company so she did she wanted the the back wall to be sort of an accent wall so it's a it's a minty kind of color with some you know decorative trim to sort of give us some definition and it's not so flat both when the bed is down in when it's up you get you see both aspects of that so the ceiling coming back to this this is actually locally milled Aspen it's a shiplap this is not an off-the-shelf product the thing with this curvy roof is that you need a wood that can twist a little bit it's so it's thin to conform to the shape of the roof and because we have a a warped surface you can't use a I couldn't run the boards that way because what happens it changes the length of my rafter is continuously changing so at the lowest slope that's the short rafter and at the longest part that's the longest rafter so my distance can be anywhere from 42 inches to 52 inches so the trick to get around that is to run them at a 45 degree angle so they'll start in a corner and then wrap they'll they'll wrap around and they'll fit that shape and that's why you see them at an angle like that we had to do the same thing for the roof decking you know you can't just use a flat sheet of plywood we had to rip it into eight inch strips and then put it at a 45 and then trim all the ends off so it's a lot of cutting a lot of time you know sometimes it's really hard to just pull a tape on those measurements you sort of just have to let get close and then see if it fits and then chop it you know cut long take a blade off here and there so it was painstaking but you know the result it's just mind-blowing you know we've done this on one other house before so it was kind of a no-brainer just use it again it's actually the laziest thing I could have done well the wife is she picked she wanted it's white cotton rope we didn't want Polly you know a plastic rope we didn't want a brown vanilla rope because she wanted to keep it light and airy in here I can jump off but we also she bought this little antique step stool which makes it a lot easier and safer to ryeong keep it young couple athletic I don't mind stopping off unless the dog you know the dogs when we go to bed that's that's where they sleep and we don't have the other bed in here right now because we took it out but I guess I'll raise it back up and show you some of the other stuff and then you get to see how it works going up it's not hard - only about 30 pounds of force because of the gearing right there and that keeps it from coming undone accidentally so when it's up then we have our living room configuration so basically we got double function in this space that keeps your trailer shorter you know it's this is a way to have a downstairs bedroom without pulling your trailer another 8 another 6 or 8 feet so you're just making better use of the vertical space I mean it's similar to a loft but we don't have to climb it which is the nice feature about it I mean we've I've lived tiny for five years a little a frame tiny loft real small and a ladder and I'm just I'm over it so this is so much better than having a climb a ladder or stairs for that matter our living room is real simple - built-in couch we've got the cushions aren't in yet we ordered them so this will be she picked some kind of suave grey color to go in the cushions and back here we're gonna have a little pool this guy we've done this in few other builds it's our little laptop storage so that flips open to fit two laptops in here charging station just comes back down then it's an armrest I didn't necessarily want to do a glue up here but I ran out of wood and so I had to just I had all these scraps laying around so I glued him up and made that little guy we've got and that matches there's some other glue ups you'll see in the house too that's one of those little details you know that it takes more time but you know it gives it a little pop when it's done so so flipped around them in the kitchen space now and probably the beginning of the kitchen space is the dining area we have two dogs we needed a spot for dog food storage so that's that's all dog food storage right there we're down the road so you know it's actually being used and then when it's not storage it's a bench this table is slight there's a slot that we built into the cabinet right here it's real simple it's nothing there's no hardware at this table we can move it around you know I have to build a leg for the corner when it's all the way out because it can't quite hold itself up but you know at this configuration we can put two people here we've got another barstool we could potentially see five people at this little dining thing and it's real simple and then what we don't we won't reclaim the space back it just shoves back in and then it's out its out of the way maybe a little extra prep space for you know for the show even just right here it's enough to do some work on laptop space death space or just one person having breakfast or dinner yeah I fit shoved all the way in it ain't coming out I mean I'm putting a little bit of force on it it's not moving so I hope it stays that way I think over time it's gonna just start wearing out but we'll cross that bridge I'm gonna get there this is probably one of the from the show of the feedback this is like everyone loves the counter that's like the next best feature other than the elevator bed this is a like well I don't know if they call it a Texas black mesquite I didn't know such a thing existed black mesquite but you know I really wanted a black a mesquite counter for the Southwest flare and the turquoise inlay and so I we shopped and shopped and we just couldn't find a big enough piece good enough price the the character we were looking for of all the places I looked Eve a happened to be the source to find this there was this guy down in Palmer Texas he just has his own little mill and just sells pieces of whatever he's got going on he had the he had just enough this is glued it's not one piece I had to glue it up but from all the pieces I think I only had one little square left of scrap that's how like down to the wire we got and I bought every piece he had so they worked out it's beautiful the turquoise everyone wants to know how we did super simple so the wood has natural cracks in it and I was there's a gym store in Durango I was able to purchase some raw turquoise it's they call it a Sleeping Beauty you know it's a really sought after turquoise in the southwest and you just crushed it put in a pipe and crush it put all the pieces in there and he epoxy over it that holds it sand it flush and then we've got a really nice murdoch's finish over this stuff it's like one of the best finishes we could possibly find for what murdoch's yeah we've got a farmhouse sink it's my understanding it they call it a compare anat composite so I think they're taking a natural white granite crushing it and then they're putting uh they're gluing it back up so it's an engineered stone kind of like style stone similar thing it's a natural but it's it's engineered so that it's tougher and it's more stable and you know it is heavy but it's not as heavy is like some of the stones bowls that we've seen before she wanted white that's the main reason we went with this we could not find a white metal sink cork or acrylic is gonna scratch and ding so for us this was the best option some kind of it's a 24 inch engineered stone sink we bought I think it's deep Oh actually carries you know that it's not a stock item it was a special order but it's about 450 bucks I've seen some you know apron sinks go for thousand even in a stainless or copper or something so it's actually that's another reason we picked it was price is the best price we could find we made all the cabinet's in-house because it's well we're over the wheel wells and it's a painting but taking a stock cabinet modifying it for fenders so it's just easier to build our own plus with the apron apron sinks one of those other things it's hard to get a stock cabinet that fits an apron so we just ended up making all of it but that's cool we get more storage you know I get this little feature I can put in here I get four drawers these are RV slides so when I'm driving they won't come out they're really you got a really ain't get to initiate it the RV slides you know I buy them from RV like adventure RV net or some like that there's an RV specific store stock cabinets if you have them in your tiny house they're just gonna roll you're gonna get to where you're going and they're just gonna be like that we don't have it done yet but this babe this whole thing will be a pullout and that's our trash and our recycling you know Steph is always real big you got to have spots for trash recycling shoes dog food and laundry that's the other one so just everyday things a lot of tiny house rollers don't really think about until they actually get into the house like oh man I didn't think about that and so trash recycling dog food if you have dogs laundry those are those are for band shoes those are the five big things she always talks about so that's sort of the cabinetry real simple you know and you'd be surprised how hard it is to find a range that just has really plain simple lines they always have extra bins and stuff that just kind of makes it clunky looking and we wanted something really just plain Jane and we found this broom I think it was maybe 200 bucks but it fit this space it was exactly what we were looking for it's got lights fan and we always tell our customers you always wanted to rect vent your range hood you don't want to recirculate her cut the hole in the wall get that smoke out of your house it's gonna be otherwise you're gonna smell like bacon and cooking oil all the time so cut the hole get the air out built this little storage thing above so you know the hoods through the wall it doesn't come up through here so that gives us some more storage and that was another reason for the step stool so we could get up to the you know I can we can reach this but I can't reach that top one so stools to get us up there other than this upper cabinet we have this shelf it's like almost seven feet long that goes just one open shelf above this big window we put in you know this parts fixed for just a nice big view whether you're in the kitchen or you're at the dining you can just look out that way and then this guy will open up so we can get a little fresh air or maybe chunk some kitchen scraps at the chickens or something so Stephanie really resisted the wood countertop especially next to the sink she's like oh maintenance I can't do that and I need something tough so this was sort of our compromise I got the wood she got the Silestone so this spot here for whatever the heck she's doing you know chopping things acidic mixtures that could damage the wood flour you know pounding whatever this thing can take whatever the heck you throw at it so it's you know heat you can take the pan right off and put it down that's not this stuff is rated for that you know that would definitely damage the wood so that was our sort of our solution to having that do it all work space that the wood couldn't handle so we only have two propane appliances the the range and the water heater on demand water here yeah so propane you know typically a furnace is a good option for tiny house heat and we still could do propane but we prefer it it could Colorado you know it's still kind of a rustic especially part where an wood stoves are very popular and then that also gives you the option well it that is a completely off good option you know propane is kind of off-grid but if you're if you're in a really cold place and you write a propane and you're screwed so the wood stove you know unless you're in a fire ban but in the wintertime you're not because there's snow everywhere so and in our part of the state you know what stove is a really good option and we decided to go with the Kimberly you know it's the most expensive stove you could possibly get they're usually like four thousand bucks you know they cut us a little distance it's a show house yeah very expensive but it's also the most efficient it can it puts out the most heat with the least amount of wood and part of that is the design it has secondary combustion so a lot of times of wood stove you burn the wood and the gas just go straight up the flue and there's still a lot of energy that can be captured from that and so this thing well will do that it'll it'll take that secondary gas and ignite it and try to get as much you know joules and Watts that woods it possibly can so well the event comes out the back so like I said we're on I done I got a few more weeks the chimney just comes out the back straight up through the roof you know one keeps asking me to go through the wall ORS or something under the thing here no it just goes straight up we don't have it in right now but we wanted to still you know show people for the show what what its gonna feel like so under the stove this is we'll keep all our wood storage down here this little overhang that when you first come in this is like shoes that we're just wearing more often you know daily we could just chuck them under there and then also the goal was to be able to sit here to when the fire is running but I think it might be a little too close so well we haven't fired up yet so we don't know but we'll see that was the goal it's all tile Portuguese tile that she found on special somewhere that's just definitely about that and you know a lot of people ask us about tile does how does it hold up with road travel and it's it holds up fine it's all a matter of the details once again you got to use we use a product called omni grip that's the adhesive it's not a it's a modified thinset and that stuff is bomber it is so good it will not I mean it's slightly flexible but this the holding power is just incredible we had to like redo a tile on the subway and it got a nick in it so we had to try to I could not pull I had a crowbar I could not pull that tile off I had to bust up with the hammer and chip it out it's how good that stuff is and then of course you grout you you want to use a modified drought has like a latex and it's it's flexible too so this above the tile it's just a little decorative metal screen so we don't have to stare at the side of our refrigerator all the time and it is you know mission accomplished but you can't tell if there's a fridge back there even unless you say maybe see the door here but you know it works nice so now we're into our food storage that's another thing for Steph you know we've been on the road so we've got some stuff in here but there's two of them that breaks up the weight of having one big one and then sometimes you don't need to pull the whole thing out you just need to access the portion so upper and lower it's all the cleaning supplies for the show and these just you know these are butter works really well next to the pantry we're moving into our closet area so this is all we did all this woodwork the stuffed I have a jig for cutting dovetails and I wanted to you know have some sort of decorative edges to the woodwork in here this is all Southwest walnut cut from like Arizona so it's it's a little lighter than like a Midwest walnut and you get that variation but some people would never know that small nut but you know you see it next to that and just an interesting you know again sort of a homage to Southwest so Steph has her closet here that's all her she can do whatever you know clothes and storage here and then we have a his-and-hers so I've got five drawers and she's got five drawers and these are cool we didn't put hardware in this it's just old school wood slides because well it's simpler for one cheaper I don't have to buy you know $15 is set and then for three anytime you're adding Hardware you're losing a half inch on each side so you lose an inch total over that and so this is a way to sort of get every inch does count in a tiny house so that's sort of a really easy way to do that yeah these didn't budge the entire trip because that will there's no ball bearings you know so there is enough friction to hold them and then but it's not so much that it's just a pain in the butt it's a poem you do have to pull a little harder than a normal door sometimes less is more simple things go a lot further opposite this closet is my closet gives us also the guts of the house so the water heaters in here in the electric panel we're gonna have off-grid water so we'll have a pump well the pump is in here the tank will sit on top of the loft and help it feed water a little better and then the batteries those big four batteries at 500 pounds they're gonna sit in here too but I still have enough room at the top to put on my shirts and then this would be like underwear and shorts and sock stuff like them so the very front of the house is the bathroom that is our barn door that we made from we had a bunch of scraps of varn wood from the siding on the outside so we took a lot of the scraps and made I make a little jig that cuts those at the right angle and you just glue them up and put them in there yeah a sunray powder and then that this is just plexiglass we didn't want to put real glass case it broke or something but a little lighter and you can buy a film that you stick to the plexi so it gives it that frosted appearance for privacy but you still get some light coming through this is all off-the-shelf hardware sometimes in tiny houses you don't have the height you need to put those big you know commercial barn door rollers so you can make your own stuff like that just a piece of steel a little ball bearing roller pull it's a pulley I stole it from a pulley and then a strap and just put a bolt and looks pretty well I don't have my stops in you know but it still works so the bathroom it's one of the biggest bathrooms I've seen in a tiny house and a lot of that has to do with the Vino so like I said we got 30 degrees coming in and then the wall goes up like that too so even though I'm 24 feet to here I'm cheating and I'm gaining quite a bit more space and that also lets the tuck because the tub is angled so it lets the tub get shoved further up against the wall and then that won't look at that angle let's do that - we didn't have to put it this way we didn't have to put it you know that way we could angle it and sort of borrow some more space to get in here so a full soaking tub it's about 900 bucks I'm signature hardware and Steph found this cool of Victorian faucet and we haven't tried it out yet but it looks cool to give a shower option there's that something years gonna yeah yeah so we got a you know bath or wash the dogs with that guy we got to find you can get another piece like this that mounts to the ceiling and that would go there it's how that would work for shower configuration hello I beam track for the curtains to come around we got to stiffen it up a little but mostly functional right now the sink so we got another piece of live edge Mesquite that we found locally and it was it was almost just the right shape to fit the space we had to cut it just a little so we didn't knock anything over here but just kind of naturally had that shape Steph this is haha just a bowl Stefan it's nothing you know it looks kind of like it is supposed to be a sink but it's just the fancy Bowl cut a hole in it silicone the drain in we're not set yet because we're still that's one of those things we gotta finish but you know you can see there that's how you sort of do that trick and then we'll silicone that and it'll sit on the wood simple vessel sink see I don't know where she found this thing this dragon handle it's English and it's also that means the threads aren't American they don't fit so I had to put a piece of plastic in there and cross thread it to get it to seal to convert it back to American thread and then what we're not hooked up on the bottom side either but you know we've got this crazy little angled door with Chevron type pattern so I can get we got a little storage and then all the pipes and guts will be in there for that guy nature's Head toilet nothing special there but you know the real cool thing about the bathroom is the penny floor so Steph took her about three days to lay all of these pennies and it's just epoxy about an eighth inch layer of marine grade epoxy over the pennies and that's what ties it and seals it so pretty dazzling effect so this spot here there'll be a linen cabinet our hunch we're trying to find an antique that fits the space but we're it's a really hard space to deal with so I think we're gonna end up making something but it'll be full height all the way up to here so we'll have laundry that's our laundry that's dirty laundry on the bottom a hamper that'll pull out towels toilet paper toiletries whatever they'll all fit on the top side so the bottom side of the bed the ceiling basically when you're sitting in the living room space is the southwestern motif Stephanie really she says it over and over she did not want to see a piece of plywood when she was sitting on the couch because it's very it's the ceiling it's only seven feet above you it's very prominent when you're in this space so we ended up searching Pinterest and getting some ideas for wood art and we've got you know we borrowed some ideas we sort of modified it to our own taste and so she picked all these colors and finishes and it was a lot of cutting it actually the hardest part was just drawing it out we just put it in CAD and then we figured out the pattern and then that made it easy to transcribe to the piece of you know sub plywood but then after that it was just you know measure cut check it cut it again and that's the end result so that turned out nice the second Loft is actually it's hard to believe it's all gear storage like we are not it is a very big tall spacious loft and it's got some cool features but we're not you know the elevator beds are primary sleeping and the goal for this was to put our gear so we're Mountain junkies like most people you know bikes River sports kayaking paddleboarding we hunt we do backpacking we do you know hiking 14 or so we got a lot of gear and we needed someplace to put that so that there'll be actually some cubbies and stuff they're gonna break up that space but that you know the sleeping bag will have a spot the backpack will have a spot all that everywhere I have a place to go when it's all said and done up there so that side of the house the portholes that'll be we're going to keep that open we will put a guest bed up there and that also be like our little getaway space what we need we just need you know you sometimes you got to have your space so that's like I can go out there and and tuck in that corner and just hang out or she can do that or whatever it is a neat little space with the portholes up there so we'll have a collapsible ladder we don't have it shown right now but this is what this space was intended to be left for so a little ladder that folds down shoves up here or hooks we might just hook it so you can grab it undo it put it right here and then go up that way we're not impeding the flow of of all this space right here that's a problem with a lot of tiny houses they it's kind of an afterthought they're like oh I know I have to have a ladder to get to my loft but I didn't really think about where to put it well then I'm trying to move in and out so that for us that's our solution we're just not using that space very often and so the hassle of having to take a ladder out just kind of outweighs the keeping the the feeling of openness sure the lighting we that's you know lighting and a tiny house is super important in it's one of those other things people kind of have afterthoughts these they just they can't picture you know what spaces are gonna need light the most when you come in you know you need to write when you come in you need a light a general light and then you start breaking it down into task lighting and so like under our bed here we've got built-in lights so at night when we're watching TV or reading a book you know these are just little they're not super bright they kind of it's enough to read but not just wash everything out and hurt your eyes at nighttime so that's sort of our main light we kind of had steampunk industrial theme going with the lighting and some of the other hardware so Steph had she had a lot of fun just hopping online and searching for light fixtures the fan is actually an antique it's like I don't know the year but it's like 50s I think it's an old decks desk fan I took the base off I fabricated a pole and redid the wiring and it actually once it gets going it's sweet it moves some air in this thing in old Westinghouse yeah you don't have it turned on but the little oscillator it still works too so it'll you know if I can get up there and turn it it would just be really slow this was real slow in it I mean you can hear it but it's night everyone who's been coming through the door they just because it's been hot the best few days and with the wood stove you know it's it's very centrally located which is good for heat in the whole house but the heat with these high ceilings the heat definitely stagnates up there so that fan will blow that you know that was on high we can put it on low and we're gonna recirculate that air and get it to spread down throughout the house these two light fixtures are antiques we picked up from an antique store in Denver just old barn lights basically those are just cheap home depot sconces for now but we're gonna we bought the parts to do some insulator lights so once again we're I'm with Rocky Mountain tiny houses out of Durango Colorado you know we're professional builders this is our full-time job but again this is my personal house that I'm sharing at the show you can follow us on Facebook Rocky Mountain tiny houses or Instagram Greg tiny house guy is mine and then Stephanie is Steph let's see it Steph's underscore tiny underscore life yeah and everything will be leaked in the description below [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you

Channel: Tiny Home Tours

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Keywords: tiny home, tiny house, tiny home on wheels, van life, camper van, shipping container, design, tiny houses, tiny homes, tiny house tour, custom tiny house, tiny house on wheels, home is where you park it, off the grid, homestead, homesteading, diy build, diy home decor

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Length: 41min 52sec (2512 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 19 2018