A Frame Tiny House Rental built for only $2k!

Here's a little sneak peek of what we got coming up in this episode. Hey, what's up guys? Deke Relax Shacks.com I know it's been a long time and working on a documentary film tiny house related box truck film calm check it a couple things real quick the video you're about to see it's a guest video from the duo that built the transforming a frame out in Montana. It's been featured a lot in Airbnb on hip camp zillow.com did a national ad campaign using photos of my design. Check it down below can be built can built that's a new word I made up it can be built very affordably. So we'll feature them in a second. But there's a rerelease of my first book out right now I really didn't talk about this. We'll do a quick giveaway. All you have to do is hit like subscribe and leave a comment in the comment. What tiny house builders should I feature potentially in the future? Who are your favorites? Leave that in the comment you'll be entered to win in a couple days we'll mail one of these out. That said, check out yet another build from this dynamic duo out in Montana. Hey there, welcome to beautiful Western Montana. My name is Garrett, and you're at the homestead. This is our third unit called the blind. And we built it after we built our second unit, the a frame, we took some components of the a frame and we kind of changed it for our situation. Namely, the fact that the a frame has one single hinged wall where we have two. And we kind of built the whole thing around the fact that these are eight by four. And so the whole unit itself is just eight feet long. And then that dictated how how long the sheet metal would be for the roof. You look here on the hinge wall here, we have some pistons. And instead of buying out, I took them for my Tercel wagon. I'm a kind of a Tercel wagon four wheel drive enthusiast. And we love recycling things around here. And it's worked out great. Other components that we kept, we kept the same kind of lighting configuration, just a single light in here, a small charge controller and 100 watt panel on the side. So it is off grid, but you can charge your cell phones or your tablets here, no problem. If you need regular person power, come up to the barn there and help yourself. But for a glamping situation, this has been fantastic. Over here, we have some camp stove stuff, your standard Coleman cook stove, small butane cartridge, and two gallons of water just for like manual hand washing of dishes and you can refill up at any time. You'll see other components that tend to make themselves into homestead cabins such as the live edge, we really like that. Because anytime we take down a tree, it becomes lumber first and then firewood second. Over here, you can see the same four by plexiglass, I think it was eighth inch, they were about 125 bucks when we bought them. But we locked this one down because we do have a wraparound deck. And it could be kind of a liability right about eye level there. Some things that we probably do again, is while I love how this looks, it tends to be a little bit fragile, whether it's the heat in the summer or as it gets cold in the wintertime, we've developed some cracks here. This one has fared better because it is stationary. However, the one close over there that opens up and down, I think it gets racked from the two by fours and the framing there. So we've got some more cracks, we're probably gonna go to a polycarbonate, which is cheaper, I think it'll hold up longer, just like our A-frame one has done. The beds are the same, we built them with the same plans up there out of the cabinet board, cabinet board being now being really expensive. This was all built in 2019. So the lumber was quite a bit cheaper, as opposed to the COVID times now. But otherwise, pretty much functionally the same except for the three foot knee wall around here, which gives us a ton more space inside than the A-frame. That's something that we really like. So let me go ahead and take you around to the other side. As we go out, this is a door that I built from some decking that was laying around the property. I think it's like the fourth or fifth door I've built out of this decking and I really like the way that it looks pretty cool. So still straight, still does what it needs to do. So let's go ahead and go around to the front of the deck there. So on the deck here, you can kind of see why we built this here and why we call it the blind. We have a beautiful view up there of some mountains in the distance. You'll see this handrail, while it's probably considered pretty lean for handrail purposes, it does serve a purpose. It'll keep you from going over there, I guess, for most part, but mostly because we can remove this top rung and the Montana Way hunt out of it because we do have a game trail that comes down here. So that's kind of one of the reasons why it was built. Also, it was built for short term rental. And before any of the keyboard warriors get on me about not insulating it, it was made for a short term rental situation. So yes, you would freeze to death if you were to stay here in January, but that was never its intention. Thinking about efficiency, we went with six and a half feet here for the two by sixes for the decking. And then we use the hanging chads there, the other 18 inches, and we put them out for decking on the other side. And then this little portion of deck behind me, these are four foot sections. So we just cut those eight footers in half. So we didn't really have to waste anything in the building of it. And that was really important to us. So all things total with the solar panel with the charge controller in 2019 prices, this cost us about $2,000 to make. So we're really happy with it. It's both business and pleasure for us. And yeah, we wouldn't probably change anything about it. Thanks.