Family builds beautiful Tiny Home on incredible property

We have several small houses here. One is this one that we built about 8 years ago. My family lived in it the four for four years, 240 square feet. So this is our house. We live here. This is the jungle. We always had the vision that, as the family grew, we would expand it to the right of the chimney. We duplicated the square meters. These are the invisible stairs that go up to my son's room. One of the most important components of living in a small or tiny space is that the interior and exterior can be combined. We have these round sliding windows. Basically, it's tempered glass that used to be a table and we reused it to turn it into a functional sliding round window, which is basically like a sliding door. We make this house our little house. Soul Projects was founded by me about 8 years ago. It's an 8.8 acre property. We have some beautiful gardens. We have some small shelters and alternative structures and also some small houses here. And this is where I have a sustainable carpentry workshop and a construction center. Basically, I build and donate sustainable structures and give them to humanitarian organizations. In essence, it's a little holistic approach to see how we share and co-create in ways that really support each other and the Earth. So yes, I've been building and creating mainly with wood for the last 25 years, exploring different methods and construction styles. Materials and building and creating your own house is like one of the most basic basic skills and I feel that once you do it, you will be living in your little bubble, which will be the most beautiful thing. Many DIY enthusiasts start without experience in carpentry, including me when I built my little house in 2014. So if you're intimidated by the idea of building a whole little house on your own, don't worry because the Internet is here to save you. 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All this is old-growth recovered cedar. It was an old wood terrace from Lenay that we disassembled and then re-joined with the sawdust in these 1x6. And then everything to the right of the chimney is approximately 90% albace. So we use invasive tree species. So this 30-foot house is a small house. It's small, but there are ways to expand it, to make it bigger. So we just expand this small area of ​​being. It's just a 16-inch extension, but it creates a little more space. And then we have a porch covered with mosquito net. This porch is covered, protected from rain, sun and insects. You have a very beautiful and connected way of life. It's close to the open air, and if the weather is good, which is almost all the time, we go out here. So, eh, we never lived alone in this half. We always had the vision of expanding it as the family grew. We duplicated our square meters. We love the living edges. We love to incorporate as much organic elements and show its natural beauty. This is also the tracing technique when we can merge and join two pieces of material. I really think it's a great way to respect its natural curve, and not just square it and cut it in an inorganic dimensional way. Welcome inside the house. All this is post and beams. It's 6x6 and 1,000 here in the field, of trees that we cut down in the field. This is just a covered screen. In Lenay, basically, it's an inclined ceiling style. It's a pretty simple style that leans forward. When it's on the road, it has aerodynamics and also offers the opportunity to create a loft in the highest part of the house. These are the stairs that go up to my son's room. He's nine years old and this is his small and cozy loft. For his age, I think it's appropriate. It will grow. But, hey, I have other ideas to cut this section of the ceiling and bevel it. We're on an inclined ceiling, so everything is at this angle. But if we bevel this back part and raise the front, we'll create a nice raised space. So when you go up the stairs, you won't hit your head. You'll also have more windows, views, air circulation and also height so you can stand up. And then, behind him, under that, is my daughter's room. She's 12 years old. So, in this house, we use a lot of floating wood. Floating wood is basically a fallen tree that has been eroded by a river in the ocean and, in essence, it has rolled along the beach through the waves. It has been sanded, literally. It has dried in the sun and has a beautiful gray patina or the bark has been removed. It's art. Bringing that art and using it as functional art, I love it. Entering the kitchen, this is the little house that starts here and has wheels. This is the original creation. This is our kitchen. Here we have a concrete wall. This concrete wall is my sustainable version, with beach sand and coral as an addition. And we love adding glass to beautify it. We have the sink, the stove and the fridge. We didn't have funds for solar energy. Basically, a propane stove and an electrical grid for the electricity that we use for most of the things. Cupboards with seats. It's a complete kitchen style gallery. We have these round sliding windows. It's basically tempered glass that used to be a table and we reused it to make a functional round sliding window that is basically like a sliding door. These stairs are beautiful acacia wooden locally sewn. The size is bigger than a normal step, but we have the ability to create a fairly decent These doors have, you know, from the kitchen to the bedding and also a composting This is our bedroom, our little corner to sleep. In fact, I turned this wall into a small station for Rice because it's a small house. We need to make the most of all our spaces and the place is just a big bed because we enjoy the comforts. Another of Jack's great designs is having that functional art aspect. It's a three-dimensional and then we have like small shelves that are the pieces of wood that stand out from it. We ended up putting a bathtub in this space. It's a bathroom that is a little bigger than most in a small house, but we also have a shower and then we have this bathtub that we love. We love having the bathrooms. Yes, the shower is a little small. You know, you go in there with a baby and it's a challenge. You go in there to wash your hair and it's also a challenge. Well, I don't wash my hair. That's my answer. Well, yes, a smaller shower, not like the one you know, a luxurious style, but with a bathtub that is a little bigger than most It's like choosing what is ideal for the needs of each one. In the subtropics, you don't really need to heat a house, except because here in North Shore there is a lot of humidity. We have a fireplace that we love, you know, to dry ourselves. It's a really beautiful component and we also cook in it. Here in the subtropics, I don't think we need insulation. I really don't think we need air conditioning. One of the components of what we have been doing for years is to create these ventilation grids. These are just normal ventilation grids on the floor that you have in the coldest parts of the world to bring the heat to your house. We only have them to bring the fresh air. The freshest part of your house is the one that is below it, outside the sun and closer to the ground. Therefore, this naturally has a vacuum, which means that the air enters because it is heating and going up and we have all these windows above. Therefore, you get that natural pool that does not necessarily depend on too much energy to work and make it comfortable, but rather the environment. To take advantage of the height of the small house, we place this kind of sofa-bed It still has the opening instead of a solid floor type, but it has another component, especially for children, to read or to crouch comfortably, which is not so common in this space. So, this is the wave house. This is a house that we built about 8 years ago and it was the first house on this land. My family lived in it, 4 of us, 4 years, 240 feet. So, it has this very cool that I love. We call it the wave because it has that feeling of wave. So, this is a 24-foot trailer, 8 feet wide, a lot of floating wood. Well, we have more than this type of floating wood that is intertwined here in the hook. Basically, there is the type of triangular hook that is attached to the truck. To take advantage of the space as best as possible, we thought about putting a little. It is actually an old teak table and in that it creates a small platform here for a small shower space. So, this space is interesting. Only with the curves of the roof, you know, as it goes down here, you can see these guavas. So, another very invasive tree that curves and you can look up and see how these trees create this curve of this whole house. And basically, that was the inspiration for this construction. It was based purely on nature, it was difficult to work with it. You know, you apply a straight roof to a curved piece. So, we have these bridge works, so to speak, where these recovered copper pieces give space so that you can have a nice curved shape for the roof. Trying to find the integrity is always an interesting component. So, when you make triangles, you get a reinforcement. There is a reinforcement that helps you when you drive on the road. It turns out that this piece was ideal to create a structural point that would really help with the rigidity and create that stability, which is a key component. With the descending curve, you lose height. So, we made this ledge and that creates space for the head and the functionality of this kitchen. This kitchen is quite small. We have a freezer turned into a refrigerator. So, a way to save energy is to keep using a freezer for the refrigeration part, but you put a timer on it so that it only acts as a refrigerator. This style basically has the built-in So, instead of having just a freezer, where it would not be so practical, this is a way to have it as a preparation station and also a freezer below. We have a tank down here, 100 gallons of rainwater collection. We have rainwater a garden on the roof, a composting inodor, a solar panel and hot solar water. This house was designed to be completely self-sufficient and be completely disconnected from the network. We have these gas springs that help lift. This is just my tranquility. A nice wooden pole here. But, in essence, as you can see, this sofa opens like a taco. It has a pleasant feeling of interior and exterior. I think one of the most important components of living in a small or tiny space is to have that mixture between the interior and the exterior. There are many windows around and the windows with a wooden frame have a different energy than PVC plastic. I've been collecting them and I thought, how do I made of PVC and they combine well to the great. So, from these windows that open and so on, to glass windows that, you know, were broken, had a crack. In addition, there is this live edge of the glass where, when they pour the glass, the resin, as it heals, has the live edge that you don't see. Normally, it is captured, but I thought about turning it into a prominent element. And, of course, I love the greenish blue. So, dyeing the wood a darker color as it lightens, like a wave or like the ocean, would inspire you a lot. It's like if you looked at the rain as it falls and all the components of the water are in the center of the house. So, it has that honor and that energy of the water, from the shower to the sink, going through the capture, the storage, what I think is that imitation, looking at nature, looking at beauty, and simply feeling like a home can be a representation and a reminder of the blessings that we receive daily, that we somehow forget. We have a bathroom with some closets on each side, a kind of pantry, and a snail ladder that leads to a hand ladder. This worked quite well. Our children were 3 and 5 years old when we moved there. They were not old enough to go up and use these stairs. As you can see, it is cozy, but there is enough space. A king bed and a double bed Another practical part of this house is that the ceiling is extendable. If we roll it up, the bamboo rolls up and you have a vaulted ceiling so you can roll it up. If there are only two people or one person up there, you only have that bed. But for a family, it can be rolled up. It is quite easy. It has a resistant structure and is ready for a family of four. We have several small houses here. One is this that we are donating to a family from La Hina. The main part of sustainable and the creation of these regenerative houses is profitability. You know, cost is the most important thing. It has been its final goal and we are trying to achieve it not only in terms of costs, but also in terms of how it is good for the planet and the occupants of that house. Therefore, it is a balance to try to find a way to make it more sustainable, effective and efficient so that we can produce it en masse and take care of the crisis of the house. The driving force of what we are doing is to use what is local and sustainable and a problem. Invasive trees are a big problem here in the state of Hawaii, so redirecting them is key. The main invasive trees species that we are using are these beautiful albician trees here. In reality, they are perceived as weak because they have a very shallow and a huge therefore they are subject to the wind, which is something that we have a lot here. However, once the wood is it has a very fibrous and beautiful structure, which makes it really stronger than the Douglas First. So we are for two in this albician house, it is all of a single wall. These are all machined panels that fit into the post. This house is made of 90% local sustainable . What we are doing is taking the beautiful creations of Mama Gaia, her beautiful these offerings to a home space that is conducive to the family. We love the functional this is just a nursery, but it is a table of Sorfabetzia, the family. This is going to be given to his father, an incredible , so we create a small personalized to incorporate that functional art that we like to do so We also have a beautiful copper shower here. This is a way to get away from the tiles. Copper is not cheap, but it is quite reasonable compared to all the levels and layers of tiles. In addition, the tiles do not This table is actually the rear end of this nursery. Well, everything is one, even if we have changed the angle and its leg, here is a leg of the wing. This is the piece of floating wood. I love floating wood and it is a great way to obtain material. Developing solutions is exciting, it takes a lot of work, yes, but it is exciting because we can find and feel what really resonates. And being humans, being incarnated, being at the service of these containers, it seems that that is why we are here. Thanks for watching this week's episode. I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to like it, share it and subscribe. And see you soon with another unique Mexico por Casas.