This TINY HOUSE Feels 2x Larger Than It Is

This is our veranda. It's around 15 square meters and most of it it's made by old pallets like this part and yeah we build it ourself and we put some lights on and we put some flowers and yeah this is this really a place where we could chill and we have connection with the whole community. This area I made for our dog so we put a fence here so she can't run away. This is the entrance to the back of the house where we put some things that looks that normally you put in the shed. This part of the house and the garden is still under construction. We are working on the garden. We have a difficult ground here. It's clay and we are trying to figure out what plants are working here and what are dying. So some of them are not working. Some of them are working and then at the back you see the big water tank we have. It has 3,000 liters in it so it's enough to have around six weeks of no rain and then with two people you can still have water. We are off-grid with the water but we do have a plan B because sometimes weather is changing and it's dry for like eight nine weeks so our plan B is on this location my my neighbor she has a normal water connection and then if it's really empty empty we can get the hose and put it in and fill it with water but we really prefer not to do it like that and to be really careful with the water so till now we never have to use plan B. Over there you see the insulation for the pipes so in wintertime when it gets really cold we put some sort of cable that that gets warm when it freezes and then it doesn't get frozen and inside the tank there's also heating cable so it cannot get frozen. This is my kitchen and even while I'm living in a tiny house for me it doesn't feel like a small kitchen. For me it feels like a normal kitchen so I'm really happy with it. Every cabinet is secondhand so we bought it from a secondhand store and we finished it with Ecoplex that's the ecological wood and these are some small parts of walnut wood that was left over so and we put it all together and we made a nice kitchen from it and this is a tree on wood we saved it from being burned it was a sick tree and a friend of mine who is a carpenter and he works with this kind of wood so he made a nice kitchen top for us and yeah so we have a very unique kitchen with one of the best things in it is my dishwasher it's really small I live here with my husband so with for the two of us it's really perfect and I'm really happy with it so it can always be clean here and the dirty dishes are inside here here we have the Berkey we use rainwater we filter it so there's filtered water here but then to make it drinkable we have to put it in there for the last step of the filtering process because we don't want to be totally dependent on electricity we have a gas and it's with gas tanks so that's for the cooking and just a normal fridge we have solar panels but we are also connected to the net we choose not to buy batteries because they're expensive you have to replace them and they're not good for the environment so we decided if it's not really necessary we we just have the connection to the net and to a green provider and this area is the chilling place and my husband and I we both work at home I wanted to create a space when I sit here I feel like my work is gone so when we sit here I don't see the rest of the house and because this is open we don't lose space so it still feels really open and connected to the rest of the house and but but yeah when I sit here and my husband is there we don't see each other and I don't see my working place so yeah I'm happy with this and here we made a big cabinet to make some extra space but because most of the stuff we had we just gave it away we don't have that much stuff so a lot of it is empty and this is a bank also made of recycled materials so this is a part of a bed this is also the same wood as this as the kitchen top and this are some leftovers from the house we built this is an old mattress and we put some new leather on it so we could reuse it again and also people can sleep on it yeah the inside of the pillows it are old cushions so most of it is recycled only the dog is not Lizzie she's three yeah we do have a television but we don't have any connection so the only thing we can watch is Netflix but that's okay this is our electrical heater it heats and it does ventilation in the same time so it has a small computer on this computer we can see the humidity of the of the air and also the co2 and depending on these on these measurements it gives the right ventilation for the house this is my dining table as same as the kitchen for me it has a normal size so it doesn't feel like I live in a tiny house it's only more close to each other so it's really a short way to the kitchen and these chairs yes they have a special story because they're really old chairs and I had someone I know who made from old jeans new fabric so they can make the the chairs like look new again so these chairs are really old but the outside is newer from recycled jeans I really like it here is my working place so I still have big ideas about how I want it to be so this is a little bit in between but for me also I have I have a nice desk where I can work on and yeah it still needs to be finished but for now I can do what's necessary here we have infra red heating because the heater is on the other side of the room and I thought maybe in winter time it can be cold here but I live here for 12 months now and also this winter time it was not cold or something I sometimes use a blanket so I didn't use it much but it's nice to have it and here we also have the entrance to the small storing loft also that one needs curtain so you don't see what's up there and we also have our filter system for the rainwater filtering located over there how long did it take you to build the house? nine months and after that I felt like giving birth yeah so we both have a full-time job and so we worked in the weekends and during holidays every free hour I was in the house and it was really a big adventure and I do like adventure when we finished I really needed a few months to recover and to be a happy person again then here we have my bedroom and for us one important thing was also that it has to be a normal size that we can walk around the bed so also here I don't feel like I live in a tiny house this bed you can open it and then we have a lot of storage under it here is my husband he's working at the moment and he built this big wall closet and yeah here we have the clothes of both of us and we even have some space left over and every small piece we used to make storage so yeah we used every part of it yeah it's wallpaper yeah yeah yeah it's really light and it's all of the same material it's all the ecological ecoplex so the multiplex and the floor that's also nice it's a bamboo because we live in a tiny house we could get a big discount because it are also leftovers from companies this is also an infrared heater because we don't have any other heating in this part of the house but he never uses it so yeah this room is in wintertime it's warm and in summertime it's cold so it's perfect and we don't have windows on the south so the Sun is always there and the walls are 30 centimeters thick we used ecological wood fibers and it's called Gutex 80,000 I think 90% of it is ecological or secondhand so can it can you build it cheaper yes I think so but we really made the choice of building an ecological house yeah the thing that we could do better in this house is the technical room to be honest when we made the design for the room we didn't make extra space for it because I thought okay it doesn't need that much room so we just put it somewhere I really didn't think about it so now we have some sort of inside the wall the fuse box well that's okay we have the rainwater system and it should be better if that's somewhere where you can enter it and where you can be in front of your system because now you have to take a ladder and I have to crawl to the back and yeah it's not perfect so yeah in my next house I will take that more serious here we have our little bathroom we have a compost toilet so it has no it uses no water and here this is a special feature we really were looking for so this we can put inside and then we have more space here because if this is a wall then you have really less space so we are really happy with it this is for the hot water it's a boiler 50 liters and as well here we shower with rainwater this is the same wood as the kitchen top the floor is from Kirk and this part of the house is not all that ecological we really try to work with as much as ecological products as possible but to make a bathroom waterproof and ecological it was for us a big challenge because and much more expensive and we didn't find the right materials and while building this whole house it was difficult enough so yeah we used some plastic kind of materials to make it waterproof four years ago my dream started that I wanted to live in a tiny house and I wanted to build my own tiny house and then I was looking for a tiny house shop where I can find all the products and all the information but I couldn't find one in the Netherlands a good one so I was really disappointed and yeah by the time I just quit my job and I was looking for something I could do and like my own company and I said okay well if it's not there I will make a tiny house store and because I was going to build my own house I was going to do other research I was going to find the right perfect product anyhow so why not collect everything collect my stories collect my experience to make that as the start of my own company so four years ago I started doing the investigation I interviewed a lot of people I made contact with suppliers who really had the perfect stuff for the tiny houses and yes it took me one year to make the website and to collect all the the right materials and to work together with the right companies and then yeah after one year the tiny house was born and so I had my own company and I could also start with building my own tiny house because in that year I found a place where I could put my tiny house and so yeah I started my company and I start building my dream at the same time and that was really amazing because in all my experience I could talk about and I could use that as advice the things that didn't go very well during my building process I could use them for my customers to give them advice about what to do and what not to do and the greatest thing about that is first I build my own dream and now I help people living and building their dream so every customer for me reminds me of my own dream and when I see when they are happy with one of the houses they sold from us or one of the other products they sold from us it's really fulfilling and there's a lot of happiness not only for my customers but also for myself