Tiny Glamping Cabin Build rehabbed with Free Pallet Wood!

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Real quick, we have a treehouse building hands-on workshop in Maine coming up in August
and in September, tiny house summer camp year 13. Camp and build with us. Details down below.
Hey, what's up guys? Deke, relaxjax.com. Cutting some wood, sawdust, not dandruff,
not this time. Working on revitalizing a corn crib-like tiny glamping pod on a trailer.
Here's the quick before. This is something we worked on using a lot of forklift pallet wood,
salvage stuff, and whatnot. I basically redesigned this on a budget down here at
Alabama at Lee Acres, leeacres.com. Super cool glamping rental spot. You will love it if you're
into the artsy and funky stuff. Basically, Lee Acres is like this super cool glamping art farm.
They have tiny houses you can rent, lots of disc golf courses nearby, a converted VW van you can
spend the night in. They got a treehouse we built for them that's a huge, huge robot and even an
A-frame, the transforming A-frame, the plans I designed, which are down in the description below.
You can stay in one of those down there. Let me show you what we did in like a day and a half.
So we started out with a thorough cleaning of the place because it was a used kind of
makeshift camper that Lee had purchased. It needed a lot of cleaning, but we saw that it had tons of
potential. Next step was the clerestory windows were just clear tarp pieces that were just wind
torn. They were very ratty. Had to get rid of all those, seal things up a bit, and replace those top
windows with Tuftex, this multi-wall stuff we use all the time, and added an overhang off the front
as well for some shade and to kind of bulk out the look of this. It was a little too boxy. This
gave it a 3D look. Then after salvaging a bunch of pallet wood that we used to kind of cover up
all the spray foam work they did to seal up this place, whoever built it once upon a time,
we hit downtown Huntsville, Alabama, which we've been to before. It's gorgeous. They have a chance
to go down there at night. The spring that flows through downtown and those little creeks, they're
all lit up gorgeously. Hit this place called the Poppy and Parliament, one of the cooler English
style bars I've ever been to. I tried frog legs for the first time, and the next morning it was
back at it. So for the eco-minded people on hand, the paint we used for this project, same company
we used for our Tiny House documentary film, the box truck film, it's a company called Recolor.
It's a women-run business that takes paints that are normally destined for the landfill or
otherwise would be chucked, cleans them, puts in some additives, mixes their own blends, and sells
them. They're durable. We've used them a ton of times, and I do recommend them. There's a link down below.
Here you can see some of the on-site long pallets we had access to. We dismantled those
to use as trim, and then with some two-by-three scraps, because the walls were angled, built some
little shelves that we mounted to the walls for candles, bottles, things like that, just to kind of
pretty up the place and give people a place for storing items, you know, their wallets and whatnot
when they stayed in here. And here's the final result with salvaged materials, mind you.
