Dropped everything and moved to the mountains! Review of tiny house in the sheregesh mountains

Hello everyone, my name is Sarayoga. I live in Sharagesh. And this is a review of my tiny house. Tiny house means tiny house in English. It's not just some fad, it's a whole movement that started in the western world. Now I'll tell you a little more about it. For now, let's go inside. It's cold outside. A few years ago, I bought a plot of land in Sharagesh. I'd been dreaming about it for a long time. This house was originally planned as a barn. In my head, you know, subconsciously, I assumed that maybe it would become some kind of guest house or, well, I would live in it myself. In the end, both things happened. Now I no longer live here. I rent it out to friends and friends, friends, acquaintances who want to come and live in Sharagesh, go for a drive, or just get some fresh air. The air here is truly excellent. I'm not a builder, and before this house, I had no experience building anything, not even a single one. I spent the whole winter watching YouTube, learning about frame construction, and yes, it's a frame house. And then, little by little, I bought some wood, screwed in the piles, made the frame, then the walls, then the roof, and little by little, it all came together like this. The interior dimensions of the house are 3 meters by 4 meters 70 centimeters. That's the net usable area, right? So, we're counting a little less than 15 square meters, plus the bed, which is on the second level. In English, it's called a loft. I have a sleeping loft upstairs. And, of course, I watched a lot of tiny house movement material on YouTube. It's a movement of tiny little houses, the idea being to build a smaller house, spend less on construction, spend less on maintenance, and, consequently, work less and have more fun. It's a very popular movement right now in the western world, and not just there. It probably started in Japan, yes, where space is very limited. It kind of just happened naturally. So, this is my living room area. I have a folding table, a fold-out sofa, from Ikea. It fits really well here, right between these pillars. Here, in this area, I have storage for all sorts of things. Right now, it's empty. I put my socks here, my underwear there, and everything else, and here are my t-shirts, sweatshirts, all sorts of pants, and so on. I have a homemade projector screen with reflective fabric. Done. And, basically, this way you can entertain yourself in the evenings. I tried to make everything as functional as possible, so there's practically nothing standard here in the sense that I had to adapt everything to a very small space. Well, for example, the refrigerator. It's a very small refrigerator, but it was enough for a family of three, mom, dad, and a small child. There's a freezer here, too. Well, we don't really need one in the winter. It's always consistently below freezing here because we live in Siberia. It was actually really hard to find a refrigerator 60 centimeters deep. This one is probably the only one I found in black. Well, because office refrigerators are usually 45 centimeters deep. We keep all our dishes here. Spoons, forks, detergents, rags, and so on and so forth. There's a huge, solid countertop made of Siberian cedar, also known as cedar pine, 80 millimeters thick. I didn't regret it. I spent all my money on it. The sink is large, full-size enough. All the dishes fit in here if you don't feel like washing them. There's a small stovetop, a cooking area, a kettle, and a panoramic window with a view of the mountains. You can see the Northern Mustang, the Middle Mustang, and a bit of the Southern Mustang. I had this idea to use the space inside the partition, too. I love instant coffee, and I have jars left over from it. So I thought it would be great to make some spice jars. Well, we don't throw away recycled coffee, we use it. Cool, cool. And I actually designed all these shelves inside the wall for these specific jars. The countertop extends inside. Of course, we had a hard time cramming it in, but it all turned out great. All the electrical wiring, all the wiring, Wi-Fi, outlets, some meters. We tried to fit everything in here and run the wires beautifully. This wasn't easy for us either, because the wires were gray. I specially bought heat shrink and just wrapped the wire with it, so it would look completely black. That's all I have, no more. The electrician spent a ton of time getting it all laid out so beautifully. He said, I could have wrapped two square houses in that time. All my wiring is external. This is again to save space, so as not to build another Venzar from the wall and do everything inside, as a rule. Well, that would have eaten up a lot of space. So, all the wiring is external. So, we laid it out neatly, everything is done beautifully. The radio switches are wireless. They run on a battery that lasts about 6 months. So, accordingly, there is a switch here and a receiver on the source. I also painted this thing black myself, it was gray. I took the trouble to make everything match the style. I made a niche in which to install a convector. I also spent a long time looking for a convector in, uh, the right color. And just, well, super lucky that it even matched the wallpaper a little. I have an inlet valve on the door for ventilation, for air. So, I made a hole right in the door, it doesn't get in the way here, everything works great. The coat rack is simply made of cedar boards, untreated. I also went over it with a stitching machine, a little brush like that. It's got this texture. The same thing here on the slopes. It's just like a little house in the woods. Further on, I have this huge shelf made of solid cedar. An 80. I also needed to somehow utilize the space, so there are flowers, books, all sorts of travel photos, magazines, National Geographic Traveler, and so on. And this photo is cool, it's an autographed photo of Yuri Podladchikov, the Olympic halfpipe champion who beat Shaun White. He signed my photos, and I even made this frame out of a broken skateboard. I have a skateboard here with autographs from Dilated Peoples, a group that's so iconic to me. You might know, there are rappers like that in hip-hop. There's DJ Babu. He's one of the founding fathers of scratching. Yeah, well, he's a real cool dude. Evid N and Cancerouscience. I lived in America for a while, went to a concert, and they signed my autograph. And now I have a skateboard with their autographs. Well, that's about it, speaking of the artifacts in this house. I'd also like to tell you about these pillars. These are the remains of an old house that was on my property when I bought it. There was a really old house here, the roof had already caved in and that was it. I burned them and varnished them. Well, a piece of the history of this place has been preserved in this house. And this even has a hook, you can hang all sorts of things on it. This is a photo from a trip to Mamai, taken by photographer Ivan Gushin. Here, Kristina Skidovich is riding and doing an amazing powder PTN in backlight from the top of a cedar tree. I really like this photo. When I built a sleeping area, a loft, the question arose, how to get into it? I needed to come up with something that wouldn't take up too much space. At the same time, it was very functional. I didn't want to make a stepladder. Well, yes, they often make those kind of stepladders that move back and forth on rollers. I decided to make this small staircase, which in turn also serves as storage. So, here's a staircase, the first two steps are normal. I designed them so that you could sit down like this, well, and do something here. You can eat there, you can do something else, just stare at your phone. That's it. And the rest of the steps, they're made with a goose step. That is, you go up like this and climb up. And a goose step. Saves a lot of space. And the stairs are made of ash. It's a kind of In short, I had to modify it a little. All the steps. Well, it turned out great, I think, beautiful. A small room with a toilet, shower and all the other household things. A bathroom, as the English say. This is a barn door, yeah, like that. Well, I made it up temporarily, but as we all know, there's nothing more permanent than something temporary, so I've had it here for a little over a year now. I also have a niche here that houses the water filter. This is where the pressure reducer is showing. The power supply for the pump also comes from it. The heating cable goes into this outlet. The water is from a well, uh, 26 meters deep. The water is quite clean, but in our region it contains a lot of iron, because, generally speaking, we have a lot of iron. The main enterprise is an iron ore mine. It's still operating, but they're supposed to close it down soon, around 2030. There's a small shelving unit here, a black metal frame and wooden shelves. A compact clothes drying system. A water heater, a washing machine. I also tried to match the color, so that it would match the overall style of the interior. Lighting. A forced air exhaust fan. There's a heated towel rail, an electric cabinet, a mirror, and a wicker willow basket, custom made by craftsmen from Altai. My toilet is a very ordinary one, like the ones you have in your apartments or houses, with a cistern. I installed a shower stall, but I didn't want to buy some ready-made solution. I wanted to take up as much of this space as possible, so I just bought a shower tray. Actually, I spent a long time looking for a black shower tray of the right size. I built the frame myself. This one also has a burnt board with a varnish finish. I also found black side panels. A friend gave me the glass. He ordered it when he was renovating, and they drilled the holes on the wrong side. Well, it doesn't really matter to me. Steph, by the way, helped me find one. This is a stick. I took a birch tree and whittled it down with a knife. It's holding up really well. My friend Saryoga Budko, also known as my dad, gave me this shower curtain, with this view of some French or Italian Alps, I don't know, Dolomites. It's a frap tropical shower. I've been using them for a long time. I really like them. They're reliable, durable, and very high quality. I had to get a little creative here, because I didn't originally plan to make any tubes inside, so I used regular plastic tubes, had them routed here, and I spray-painted them. Done. Surprisingly, everything holds up well. Well, here's the outlet, and I had to somehow make use of it. I took some driftwood from Lake Teletskoy. It's in the Altai Mountains. And so I made this cool little outlet. Here. And here, again, there was a small gap. I enhanced it with another piece of driftwood from Lake Teletskoy. I think it turned out great. I personally like it. And the tropical shower. And it's not just tropical in the name, we also have a tropical monstera growing here. So I hope it will grow someday, fill this whole space, and give it a tropical feel. I actually spent a long time searching for all sorts of different materials. I wanted to make some decorative filler here, yes, to look like concrete. I went to a place that sells all these decorative fillers. They said, well, this will be extremely difficult to implement specifically for a shower. There are 8 approaches to the wall. And it cost a lot of money. In the end, at Leroy Merlin, now called Limna Pro, I found these PVC panels, which, in my opinion, well, if it weren't for these things, yes, in my opinion, look absolutely super cool. The only downside is that they are very fragile when impacted. I mean, my stepladder fell here once, and now I have these stickers. So, relevant, right? Jaja. Jaja Binks asks, large shelves. It's a funny story. I periodically go pick up something from a transport company, and they often have slag boards lying around. I've used a lot of these boards, both in the interior and exterior, which have traveled, well, half of Russia. I worked, made them, and sanded them beautifully. Here are these large shelves. I also spent a long time searching for the tiles, I glued them myself, so there are some imperfections. But I think this imperfection adds a certain soulfulness to the ceilings. I made them all out of plywood. It's also a nod to the loft style. I sanded them and didn't even cover them with anything. The chandelier, by the way, is also driftwood from Lake Teletskoye, some kind of root that flopped around in the water for a long time, then washed up on the shore. I picked it up, brought it back, and here it is. And this is a porcupine quill. This is also an artifact. In the current economic conditions and the area we live in, Siberia, it makes sense to build such small houses to actually spend less money on construction, spend less money on the interior and exterior, and maybe even do what I did here, buy something more interesting, more expensive, but since the area is small, still spend less on it. For example, shindle is a fairly expensive material, especially large. Since the area is small, I was able to buy it and create such an interesting facade. The smaller the house, the less it needs to be heated. This particular house is electric. I have a single 2 kW convector heater, which is enough for the entire area. And the electricity bills are small. For example, in the coldest month, I spent, I think, 7000 on all the electricity. I have no other utilities except electricity and garbage collection, which is a little over 100 rubles a month. I actually wanted to put a fireplace here because I'm a huge fan of the whole fire thing, the fireplace, that warmth, but unfortunately, there's just nowhere to plug it in here. And electricity is actually much simpler. Smaller space, lower bills, so you can work less and have more fun. Smaller space, more snowboarding, hiking, dog sledding, and everything else. This was a review of my tiny house, a tiny house. It was me, Sarayoga Tiabald. Subscribe to the channel, like it, ring the bell, be sure to share this video with your friends, and leave comments about what you liked and didn't like. I know there will be comments about how it feels to live here and so on, but I lived there and really enjoyed it. I hope you enjoy this video too. My next review will be about a yurt, so stay tuned. 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