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Title : standard furniture new york trundle bed
standard furniture new york trundle bed
(john)i'm john weisbarth, and i'm a huge fanof the tiny house movement that's explodingacross the nation. the average american homeis 2,300 square feet, but lots of people are deciding that biggerisn't necessarily better, and they're choosingto live in homes that are just 1/10the average size. whether they're afterfinancial independence
or desire to live with less, inspired homeownersare starting to think outside the blueprintsof everyday building, and that's where i come in. i travel across the countrywith my partner, tiny house expert zack giffin,and together, we help people buildtheir mini dream homes... i mean, right?isn't that super cool? it's amazing.
(john)and get them prepared for the extremedownsizing it takes to livein under 500 square feet. [laughter] [gasps]oh! oh, my god. (john)trust me, tiny homes are the next big thing. (man)♪ whoa-oh ♪
♪ whoa-oh ♪ ♪ whoa-oh, oh, oh-oh ♪ [upbeat music] (man)♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ oh-oh-oh ♪ today, i'm on my wayto meet homeowners pye and roaldand pye's son, quen. (john voice-over)ten years ago, pye was a single mom,
and she and her young sonwere living the good life two blocks from the beachin waveland, mississippi, right on the gulf of mexico. waveland is a tinylittle community, a lot of little shops, and you have restaurantsand the water. life was just easy there, and i was very, very happy. (john voice-over)and then hurricane katrina hit.
(pye)the night before katrina, i didn't even realizeit was all coming. we kind of went to bed thinking that we'dget up in the morning and just sort of pack upand slowly get out, and that was notthe case at all. (john voice-over)katrina hit the shoresof waveland, mississippi, during the morningof august 29, 2005. 180-mile-per-hour wind gusts
and 30-foot wavesfrom the storm surge caused severe destructionand flooding, not onlyto pye's beachfront town, but all along the gulf coast. and then the next morning,it was all gone. (john voice-over)pye's house was destroyed, as were thousandsof other coastal homes. (quen)i don't remember muchabout the hurricane, why--i was justso young back then.
it was so long ago. all i really rememberis the drive on the evacuation and all this justreally long traffic. (pye)i just wasn't surei'd ever come back, but then over time,i thought, "you know, the property's there,"so i came back for another look. there was debris;there were dead trees. (john voice-over)the only things left werethe front steps to her old house
and an old oak treethat survived the hurricane. there was this live oak, and i knew at that momentthis would happen. i had no idea how. after katrina, pye and quenfled to birmingham, alabama. that's where pyemeet roald, and in 2012,the two of them were married. and when i first met her,i didn't really know about the waveland partof her life.
(pye)we decided to merge. that's what i always call it.it was a real merger. i want to be partof her future. - i'm a happy camper.- wow. - nice.- mm-hmm. my mom meeting roald, yes, that was a great additionto the family. so now after nearly a decadeof living here in alabama, pye and quen and roald,for the first time,
are ready to go backto mississippi, and this time,they're doing it tiny. (john voice-over)and we're gonna help this familyrebuild their dream home right on pye's old property. roald is the executive directorof an environmental center. (roald)i think that going tinyis a real challenge, but it's somethingthat i want to do to show that you can havemodern-day comfort in a much smaller footprint.
(john voice-over)so for them,going tiny was a no-brainer. right now, the whole familylives in alabama, but she's alwaysmissed waveland. so zack is downin mississippi right now working with our builder,travis, to get that set. (zack)so what's--what's upwith the stilts? the stilts,the pilings, when katrinacame through,
fema stepped inand, you know, started setting a lotof codes in place, and that makes it tough. this house is unique in that it's not only on a foundation and you have to complywith all the zoning codes, but it's also inthis hurricane area, and so there's these extrafema regulations that we also have to comply to.
(travis)15 foot,that's base flood elevation fema put into place,so it... that's really the levelthat the water was? well, it was actuallytaller than that, 'cause i heard in excessof 30 foot deep. honestly, it's really wild just thinking aboutthat much water right here. couple flightsof stairs to get up to get into your house,
and we've got a pretty uniquestaircase going in here. homeowners want to wrap itaround a live oak tree and get it as closeas they can and... - that big one?- they do. i don't blame 'em.it's a beautiful tree. (john voice-over)pye, roald, and quen are going from their current2,300-square-foot house to a 576-square-foot elevatedtiny home of their dreams. pye and roaldwant a modern beach design
that allows for natural lightin their living room and a full-size kitchen for cooking freshly pickedfruits and vegetables. we'll also builda spacious bathroom, a master bedroomwith an 18-foot vaulted ceiling, and a lofted bedroom for quen. since it's a foundation build, their 24x24-foot tiny home will be equippedwith standard electrical,
plumbing, and heating. outside, pye and roaldwant a place to garden and connect with nature,so we'll need to figure out how to incorporate thatinto the landscaping plan. and we don't have much time. pye and roald just soldtheir alabama home, so their tiny househas got to be move-in ready in just 20 days. - welcome to alabama.- thank you so much.
ah, so this isthe place, huh? (pye)this is it. first of all,i'm very excited to be here. so you guysare living here now. (pye)yes. and the build is in... (both)mississippi. - where you lived before.- yes. what is it aboutgoing back to waveland?
i think mississippiis where i'm at my best, right there on the coastin waveland. every time zack and ibuild a tiny house, it feels like a big deal, but especially soin this case, because returningto this place, there's a lot of emotionconnected to it, and so helping themcome home and building themthat home,
you know, there's a realresponsibility, i feel. i know this is gonna beemotional and tough for you. - yes. yes.- i can already sense it. that's totally okay, because i thinkwe look at the goal, and we see what's happening, and the goal is,you're gonna get to go home. and that's an emotional thing,but it's a happy thing. so let's go inside,meet quen,
and hear a little bit moreabout what we got in here. cool.[laughs] (john voice-over)while i have a look aroundpye and roald's big house, zack's almost ready to startframing their new tiny house. he's already been working herefor two weeks, making thisour longest build yet. due to the building codesin place since katrina, this house needs to be builton an elevated foundation. anytime that you'redealing with a foundation,
you have a lot more freedomon what you can do with the shape of the house. when we're buildingtiny houses on a trailer, we're really restrictedto that trailer shape and by the restrictionsof driving down the road. so building ona foundation is great. we get to explorea whole lot of different ways to kind of go about things, and this is a perfect example.
(pye)so this isthe living room. this is very nice. this is where we spend most of our time together. i see a lot of artworkon the wall. these were pieces i hadthat i love. these are piecesthat you saved. oh, yeah,they went with me. like when you--time to go.like, "let's go.
we're pulling theseoff the wall." actually, that's stillgot katrina mud on it. - wow.- so...yeah. now, what's this?this is a pretty nice table. (pye)oh, yeah, this waspart of our merger. - that's kind of cool.- yeah. it's nice.it's really functional. yeah. and, you know, normally
it's three or four of us, but, you know,on occasion, there's a whole tableful, and we needed a placefor all to sit. and that would beone of my concerns, especially during christmas,the holidays, because he's gotthree kids. and, you know, there'llbe seven, eight of us-- with my parents, ten.
- mm-kay. big group.- so, i mean, yeah. (john)pye and roald wanta big dining room table so they can have the wholeextended family over. and i get it.i understand why they want it. i don't think they understand how difficult that isin a tiny house. you know what?i haven't met quen yet. - ah.- and he's here, right? (pye)he is here.
what's going on, quen?i'm john. - hello.- very nice to meet you, man. - nice to meet you too.- yeah. so what do you thinkabout a tiny house? just transitioningfrom something this large to just somethingthat small kind of... it just is insane. (john)yeah.that's, i think-- that's, i think, whata lot of people think.
would you mind showing mearound your room? i want to sort of get an ideaof, you know, what's in there and what you wantto take with you. could we do that? (quen)yeah. all right. so this is your spot,huh? - mm-hmm, yes it is.- nice. what do you think are the mostimportant things in your room?
(quen)like, my stuff, likethe computer and everything, and i'm fine. it looks just likea computer to me. yeah,it looks ordinary, but inside, it's really actuallya very powerful computer because, like,i've built it over time with parts i've acquired. so you, like, workon the computer. do you, like, open it up
and put in all the newcomponents and stuff? yeah, and i change outand do maintenance on it. what else do you have? my rabbit in here. he's not in this cage currently. - he's somewhere.- you've got a rabbit? - yeah.- [laughing] what's his name? lucky because his birthdaywas on friday the 13th.
- that's awesome.- yeah. quen has two largecomputer desks that aren't gonna fitin the loft in the tiny house, so zack's gonna have to come upwith some sort of customized space-saving design that willtake care of quen's needs. we also can't forgetabout lucky. we have to come upwith a pet-friendly space for him as well. (pye)so this isthe master bedroom.
(john)ah. yes.[laughs] a lot of shoes. (pye)well, i have small feet. yeah, shoes arehard to find, really cool girl--girl's sexy shoes. they don't look likethey're that hard to find 'cause there's a lotof 'em in there. yeah, i bought 'emwhen i found 'em.
it really comes down to identifyingwhat's important. okay, and we're gonnaclear the other stuff out to give that stuff the roomthat it deserves. (john voice-over)closet full of shoesand a dining table for ten? i think pye and roald needa 576-square-foot reality check, so it's time to take this familyon a road trip back to waveland, mississippi, to give themtheir first taste of tiny.
- hey, what do you guys think?- oh, it's amazing. i mean, you can come upwith one of your zack things. oh, my god.oh, it's awesome. it looks big from down here,doesn't it? oh, my god, look at that.mwah. (roald)you sure this isa tiny home? well, the footprintis tiny. let's go upand check it out. i'm surezack's up here.
wait till you seein here. (john)check it out. (pye)wow. oh, my gosh,it's amazing. - hey, zack.- hey. (john)what are you doingunder there? i'm just tryingto figure out what that spaceis about. (john)this is zack.
he's the guy that's beenhard at work, man. you guys have done a lot. (pye)yeah, this is amazing. (john)right? i mean, the windows, all the natural light... it feels reallylarge in here with these high ceilings,doesn't it? (pye)yes. how high are they?
(zack)18-foot ceilings. it makes allthe difference. the vaulted ceilingsand all of the windows in pye and roald's placemake it feel really big, but the actual livable spaceis still only 576 square feet. zack, give us an ideaof kind of where we are. walk us through the spaceif you could. okay, well, yeah,right now, you guys are standingin the living room.
and then master bedroom. and right next to thatis the bathroom. you're gonna have your,you know, sink, mirror. toilet is gonna goover in this zone. it's gonna beall tile, and then there's gonna be a big glasspartition door. (roald)it's wonderful. (john)this is kitchen area,right, zack?
(zack)you are correct. the range is gonna beright in front of you. refrigeratorto the left. over here is gonna beall counter space with, you know, a big sink centered in frontof the window. (pye)okay. and there's gonna bequen's loft upstairs. oh, that's good.
(john)there's one more spacewe have to talk about, and that's outside, starting with my favorite part--this tree. (pye)it's probably 100 years old. i mean, this gash right hereon the tree was damaged from the storm, but it's coming back. and you know something elsethat's really cool and importantand that made it?
the steps stillfrom the old house. oh, yeah. (john)yeah, we weren't really surewhat to do with--with the stairs. i wasn't sureif it was something that would be too painful,the memory, to see. mm, oh, no. (pye)it's quite the opposite. i mean, the memoriesthat we had living here,
i can--i can see quenrunning up the steps still. well, i would be heartbrokenif they weren't here. (zack)well, i could try to pullthe things apart and then repurpose the brick. i mean, i likekeeping the steps. just don't wantto lose that history. okay. (john voice-over)zack and i have to thinkof a clever way to incorporate these stepsinto an outdoor design plan,
but for now, zack and the crewhave to get back to work on the roofing and the siding in order to stay on schedulewith the build. now that pye and roaldhave seen what kind of tiny spacethey're dealing with, i'm hoping the next stepof paring down their things will be a little easier. i'm headed back to their homein birmingham, alabama, to help them out.
are you guysready for this? oh, i hope so. i think the thingthat scares me the most about pare downis losing things. the table is wherewe have family dinners, and that timeis very special. don't think aboutwhat you're leaving behind; think about whatyou're gaining. it's this trip back
to the place thatyou found yourself, i feel like. - i mean...- it was, yeah. and the way you'vetalked about it, that's what you'regaining. yes. and now you getto bring roald along, and you're dancinginto that. yep.
so it really isabout identifying what's truly important,okay? and i know that familydinners are important to pye and roald,but since this table is not gonna fitin their new tiny house, zack and i have to come upwith a solution. a white pickup out front--is that yours? - that's mine.- okay, good. the challenge is gonna be
to only take enough stuff that will fit in the backof the pickup truck. ooh-ee. (roald)it's a small housethat we're going to, and there's nothingworse than coming in and, you know,cluttering up a place, but that's nota lot of space. ♪ ♪ (man)♪ oh ♪
i look good in these. (john)how many pairs of shoesdo you have? (pye)20 to 30. we can get downto five, right? - what?- five. no. (roald)we're not gonna miss outon any art. (john)not gonna be ableto take these. it's okay.i can help us pare down those.
oh, thanks, john. i don't know why you guysare so nervous. this paring down'spretty easy for me. [laughter]- tasty too. - do they both fit you still?- i believe so. could i talk you intoonly keeping one of 'em? is that somethingyou'd be okay with? - yes.- you're so good. i wish everyonepared down this easily.
- which one?- this one right here. - this is coming.- yes. i don't carewhat happens. lucky's like, "uh, where areyou taking my house, jerk?" my mom and roald, i think the pare down'sa little tough for them because they have a lotof sentimental items. (pye)that was a trophybonefish that my father caught.
i can't leave thatbehind. is it worth parting with maybeone of the other pieces of art? - yeah, definitely.- okay. (man)♪ now that i wanteveryone to see ♪ i've got this cutting board that has quen's profilewhen he was little. - oh.- yeah. that's kind of cool. (john)i mean, we're full.
how do you guys feel? was that harder,easier, about what you expected? it was a challenge,but it's also very liberating. that's a great wayto think about it. yeah, this is all that reallymakes a difference. - yeah.- yeah. (john)good job. and before you know it,
we're gonna haveyou guys in an amazing housein an amazing place. all right?feel good, everybody. come on.just bring it in here. (pye)yay. [laughs] (john voice-over)it's day 15 of the build, and the electricianhas connected the circuit panel. the entire structureof the house has been fortifiedwith rafter-to-wall tie-downs
to help withstandhurricane conditions. the crew has also justfinished installing simonton stormbreak windows. these windows can withstandhigh winds and flying debris without shutters. i'm checking with zackto let him know that this tiny house needs to accommodatedinner seating for ten. ten?
i mean, listen. i want to get creative. we need something that's not gonnadominate the space, something that gives itsome wow factor, 'cause this wasa really-- it was a hard thingfor pye to part with. and this living room area'sthe only space that i see it big enough.
does this tablejust collapse small, or do we have to getcompletely rid of it? does it haveto just go away? here's the deal: they want this spaceas open as possible, so if you can make a small,permanent thing work that's not gonna, like,junk up the space, okay. it'd be better if youcould do something, like, really coollike zack does.
you know what i mean? you can come up with oneof your zack things. what about like... [clicking tongue] cranks downfrom the ceiling, comes up from underneath. i don't like to tryand get into the madness that's in here. but while you arein madness mode,
you also needto figure out how to fit a massive computerworkstation into quen's tinybedroom loft. so start thinkingabout that. (john voice-over)fitting lots of people while living comfortablyin a tiny space is no small feat,and as a country, we've been challenged with that when we're faced withdisaster relief situations.
so we're headingto brooklyn, new york, to seea tiny-house-inspired solution. for the past ten years, the new york officeof emergency management has been hard at work on urban post-disaster housing. program manager cynthia barton has been spearheadingthe project. the reason that we builtthis project was
because we wanted to have a wayto keep people close to home if there were a big disasterin new york city. (john voice-over)in the aftermath of katrina, disaster relief housingconsisted of single-story,single-family trailers. it was clear that thiswould not be an option for new york city. (barton)we don't havea lot of open space. we need multistory,multi-family housing.
(john voice-over)the solutionwas stackable tiny houses. the prototype is a 400-square-foot,one-bedroom unit the main living roomhas a multifunctional couch that turns into a full-size bed. the unit also comeswith a balcony with floor-to-ceilingglass doors to allow for plenty of light. the main space is designedwith an open plan
so the living roomflows right into the kitchen. because families will be livingin the tiny housing for up to a year or more, the unit hasa full-service kitchen. the counters are designedto be accessible, and wheelchairscan fit under them. part of the counter spacedoubles as a desk area. the closets in the unitare spacious, and the beds are all queen-size.
underneath the bedsare pull-out drawers for more storage. the bathrooms are madeto be as universal as possible, fully handicap accessible, and covered in plasticnew york subway tile. these stackabletiny living units, which make useof vertical space, are an ingenious way to fit multiple peoplein tiny spaces.
meanwhile, back in waveland, the grounds crewis getting started on the landscapingaround the house, but our contractor, travis, has given ussome troubling news. (zack)hey, john. ooh, how we doing? well, we gotsome issues, and for the first time ever,it's not the rain.
basically, we'regetting shut down. wait. what? (zack)the permit process thatwe're dealing with is twofold. the first is specificzoning regulations for here because it's a hurricane area. i don't see thatbeing a hurdle. really we're all goodas far as fema, right? i believe that'sunder control. (john)so what's the issue?
(travis)[sighs]planning and zoning. (zack)the second is common regulationzoning regulations that are making it really hardto build tiny houses all over the country-- is that there'smandatory minimums for how smallyou can build your house. that's true with this area. (john)we're buildingtoo small of a house for the lot we're on?
yes, that's whati'm learning. i mean, so whatdo we do? i guess go backto planning and zoning, try to get a variance-- let us builda 24-foot-wide house on a 100-foot-wide lot. we don't have time. pye and roald have alreadysold their place in alabama. they need to move outin just five days.
(travis)let me make some calls,see what i can do. (zack)hopefully that works out. (john)man. (zack)being shut down is gonna delaythe whole process, but it does give me timeto put some thought into some of the challenges, like a dinner tablethat's gonna fit ten. we have these 8-foot barn doors that separate the master bedroomand the living room.
i think that i can insetthe table into one of the barn doors and then have it fold downlike an ironing board. the other challengeis quen's desk, and i thinka retractable monitor, that's the way to go. but both of these projects, they're gonna take some timeto build, and i'm gonna haveto get started.
so what is this exactly? the barn doorsthat cover over the master bedroomentrance. but this is gonna alsoperform another function of turning intothe dining room table set. i love that becausethis is like movable, dual-functionalvertical space. very, very cool. i mean, the only thingi haven't quite
figured out yetis seating, because we don'thave storage for a lot of extra chairs. but i'll cross that bridgewhen we get to it. we're gonna havea full 8-foot table. good.well, that's what they want. (john voice-over)it's day 16, and the clock is ticking. pye and roald's tiny houseneeds to be move-in ready
in just four days, but until travis,our contractor, can secure a variance permit, the buildis still on shutdown. but zack's not gonna let timeslip through his hands. he's come up with a tiny-mindedoutdoor project for roald. pye and roald are veryenvironmentally conscious, and they both love to garden. i got an idea fora surprise welcome home gift
that roald can build for pye. with all thisconstruction going on, there are a lotof leftover wood scraps, so i thought youcould build something for the landscaping thatyou and pye would appreciate. just the possibilityof reusing anything that otherwise would havegone to the dumpster, in terms of building material, that's always somethingwe look for.
i don't really have expertise, but my interestis in the three rs of reuse, reduce, recycle. we could build justsome planter boxes and then play around withwhere we're gonna put 'em. (john voice-over)while zack and roald start tobuild a couple of planter boxes, i'm gonna grab pyeand the car keys so we can take a ridearound waveland and see the sights.
when hurricane katrinadid come through here, how far up didthe water come? there was a waveof 30 feet that washed overall of this, and it went infor five miles or so. and like this, you justsee steps to nothing. and we are ten yearslater almost. that's the partthat's amazing to me. that tree there is wherepeople hung on for dear life.
one was in the top and would tell everybodywhen a wave was coming, and they'd allhold their breath and get hit by the wave. - what?- yeah. you lost so much more,it seems like, than just a house. you lost the communitythat you had here. i wonder...
it was wonderful, yeah. how much of thathas come back yet? maybe 10% has come back. there are so many hurdleswith the regulations to build and the expense. i mean, it's really difficult. you know, going tinymakes even more sense here. oh, definitely. i mean, maybefor all the people
who thoughtthey couldn't... maybe they'll seewhat i've done and realize that they can. - yeah.- it's exciting. (john voice-over)it turns out while i wasriding around with pye, our variance permitcame through, which is great news. but on my returnto the build site, zack and i are greetedby a surprise visitor--
the building inspector. billy, you ever inspecteda tiny house before? (zack)yes, we got our variance,but there's a catch. (zack)before we continue, the building inspector'sgonna have to sign off and make sure thatwe're in compliance with all of the differentbuilding codes. (john)if he's happy, then we'll finallybe good to go.
(john)if he's not happy, we could be in big troublewith our schedule... big trouble. who knows what thismm-hmm.inspector's gonna (zack)the crew and ihave built this place following every codeto the letter. but with so many regulationsto follow, who knows what thisinspector's gonna find? the suspense is killing me.
(john)so what do you think? [laughs] (zack)okay. i get you. (zack)we have to shore upa couple beams, but thankfully,bill didn't have a whole lot of demands. even though he's a stickler,he's a good guy, and he's there to help us.
that's what you wantout of your inspector. well, bill,if that's it, man, then... fantastic. all right.well, hey, listen. i'll let youstart working on that. i'm gonna walk youout here, bill, all right? so huge sigh of relief, because it basically took us from a dead standstill
to moving forwardwithout a hiccup. (john voice-over)the shutdown put usa day and a half behind, so we don't have a minuteto spare because the family is movingin just three days. so the whole crewis hard at work finishing the insulationand hanging the drywall. it's day 17 of the build,and inside the house, the crew is finishingthe bathroom with a varietyof ceramic tiles,
while in the main living area, they're installing a laminatewood-planked flooring. outside, zack's hard at workon pye and roald's dining table, and since we're behind schedule, i'm giving him a hand. counter and seating spacein a tiny house is limited, so tiny homeownershave to get creative on how to accommodate guestswhen they come over for a visit. tables can transform into beds;
chairs can extendto become benches. if you want to getreally crazy, how about a door that turnsinto a ping-pong table? when it comes to entertaining, having surface areasthat you can stow away is the way to go. progress on pye and roald'stiny beach house is moving at top speed. while the crew is paintingthe living room an ice blue
and the exterior a bright white, zack is working onthe space-saving computer desk he designed for quen. even though we'rea day and a half behind, the team has been pulling outall the stops to get us back on schedule, and it looks likewe're gonna finish just in time. uh...zack?
hey, how's this guyin the suit walking ontoour build site? (zack)uh, i don't know, but he looks pretty official. he's not smiling. (john)oh, no. you don't think we'rebeing shut down again, do you? so we've got this mysteriousofficial-looking visitor o)
and turns out ourlocal contractor, travis, knows this guy, because he's the mayorof waveland. (john)and i'm hoping he's not hereto say we have to stop. we're two days awayfrom finishing this house. pye and roald and quen,they're all ready to move in. they're excited. i told them it'sgonna be ready. we can't get shut down now,
not again. (john)how are you? nice to see youas well. - this is zack.- zack, nice to see you. what's the news? yeah, what brings youto our tiny house? as you can see,the destruction around us... (john)yeah. you know, left overfrom the hurricane,
well, the economy is tough,but i'm thinking this is a great wayto rebuild our city. - you're a fan?- i am a fan. so you're not hereto shut us down. absolutely not. [laughing] the mayor loves tiny houses. yes! if you look atthe past ten years,
there was not a lotof construction going on. this would help us recover. it's not cost-prohibitive. when you go small like this, you can havethe resources, then, to make these structureseverything you want it to be. i would love to seethe entire south side repopulatedwith this type of construction. he's on board,which is huge.
i cannot tell youhow big that is. (smith)i think that thiswill play a big part in the rebuildingof waveland, mississippi. (john)yes. (john voice-over)having the support of the mayor means a lot to us as we hurry to finishthis tiny house. the grounds crewfinishes the landscaping and installs a propane fire pit.
meanwhile, zack's come upwith a seating solution for pye and roald'sdining table. he's using the otherliving room barn door to house folding benchesto complement his folding table. (zack)each bench is gonna havefive picture-frame legs that are gonna lock in place when the benchis all the way down. i'm really excitedabout this design. (john voice-over)zack's mad ingenuitystrikes again.
with the landscapenearing completion, the only thingwe haven't figured out is what to do with the stepsfrom pye's old house. it almost looks likea historical landmark. (zack)the only thing that i waspotentially thinking is, like, some kind ofjust commemorative plaque. or a series of plaques. what do you mean,"series of plaques"? let's get reallyliteral for a second here.
it was a stairwayto their home. maybe that's stillwhat it is. maybe each step-- "birmingham,"and then it's, "met roald," and then it's, "got married," and, "decided to come home." each landing is a step, you know,on this journey home. i think we can turnpye's stairs
into a much morepositive message. so i think we takesomething that could be a hard memory,a tough memory, and we spin it on its head and we make ita positive thing, like you're owning this. i think thatcould work. wow. yeah, no,let's do that.
(john voice-over)it's day 18 of the build. while zack and the creware rushing to set up quen's custom computer desk, i'm putting togetherpye and roald's bed. we're hanging the dual-purposebedroom barn doors, and we're putting inthe cabinets and appliances. the water heaterjust went in today as well, and no house is completewithout the finishing touches. a month ago,we met pye, roald, and quen,
who are moving backto waveland, mississippi, nearly ten yearsafter hurricane katrina destroyed pye's home there. we helped the family pare down, get them intothe tiny living mind-set, and now it's time to show themtheir brand-new tiny home. (john)oh, here they come. look, she alreadyhas her seat belt off. (pye)stop!
the car hasn'teven stopped yet. [gasps]oh, y'all, this is amazing. (john)i was a little nervousfor you there. you didn't let the car stop. no time. - oh.- come on over here, you guys. oh, look at that. (roald)wow. (pye)oh, my god.
it is amazing. (roald)it's gorgeous. (pye)it really is. (john)you guys have beenwaiting so long, i mean ten years. so rather thanstarting outside and talking aboutthis outside area, zack and i are gonna letyou guys go up the stairs and check out--
- now?- yes. check it outright now. i'm out of here. (john)you have to keepup with her. (roald)i have to keep up with her. (pye)nice. ready? - oh, my god.- holy cow. oh, this is so beautiful.
oh, my god, lookhow awesome this is. (roald)this is the biggesttiny home i've ever seen. (pye)this is stunning. i mean, it's reallyjust amazing. oh-ho, look at the floor. - oh.- look at the fan... y'all, check outmy fish. they got my dad's fishover the door. it fits perfect.
i mean, everythingis fitting perfect. (roald)this is beautiful. oh, how freakingcool is this? oh, i love this tile. i love this kitchen. they're all the thingsthat matter here. mommy.look who it is. (pye)oh, who's in there? he's gonna love it.
oh, my gosh. [pye gasps] oh! - that is so beautiful.- oh, my god. (roald)i think i'll get youout of here. (pye)oh, i'm gonna takeso many showers. [knocks] welcome tomy new house. oh, beautiful.
(pye)y'all, this is amazing. this is so beautiful. i mean, let's--let's come in the bedroom. my god. oh!i have a desk. (john)and then we'rea full 18 feet from the floor up here,and look. there are your paintingsyou saved from your old house.
i don't knowabout you, but i love that fan. (pye)i do too. what a beautiful room. (roald)yeah. it's almost likean art gallery. it's just perfect. (john)and check out this kitchen. what's really neat is,
we're able to useboth sides of the kitchen. there is so much space for you to cookthose large family meals that you love to make, plus a dishwasherand a washer/dryer combo. it's lovely. oh, and, quen... (john)zack doesn't know about this. (pye)it was an old cutting board,
and it's his profile. - quen...- can't you see it? - oh, yeah, yeah.- it's perfect! (john)and speaking of quen, while the three of you guyssort of explore this space, come on, i wantto take you upstairs and show off a couplethings up here, all right? [mutters] all right, so thisis your space.
what do youthink of it? this is amazing. it's like everythingi've ever wanted to have in a room and just all of itcombined together. we gave you a trundle bed withplenty of storage underneath, and zack built you somethingreally cool for your computer. check this out. now, when you wantthe computer,
boom, there you go. and when you needmore room, the monitorjust goes away. i mean, right? - isn't that super cool?- it's amazing. i'm speechless right now. right? - so it's not--- oh, hey, hey, hey, hey. you're not showing offthe door yet, are you?
uh, no.don't worry, john. - we're waiting for you.- i'm a-coming. (john)we're coming.all right, i know-- i know you guyshave been dying to see these doors, right? basically, we neededa dining room table, and the challenge that i hadwas 90 inches, enough for 10 people to sit. this is absolutelyone of a kind.
i've never done anythinglike this before. and i guess i'll justlet the doors do the talking. i really hada fun time doing this. problem is,there's nowhere to(zack) you release that. - wow.- oh, that is amazing. pull that out.table leaves open. - there you go.- wow. problem is,there's nowhere to sit.
so, sorry, guys.we didn't think of that. or did we? you see what'sgoing on over here? (zack)de-latch. then this is justgoing to fold down, and gravity is gonna helpthese legs come out. and that is goingto turn into your bench. (roald)zack, that is amazing. (zack)so there aretwo of those,
and you can seat ten. (john)we've done barndoors before, and every time we do it,i love it, but the fact of havingthis huge table and these long, beautifulbenches come out of that, it was just--it was oneof my favorite things zack has done. (roald)this is a work of art. (pye)yeah.
i mean, we'll justspend all our time just showing peoplehow it works, like, "watch this." so functionaland so beautiful. it was absolutely-- i could've never envisionedanything that wonderful. (john)okay, there's one more spaceyou guys need to check out. (pye)oh, this is so cool. so this isyour outdoor room.
get in there. (pye)♪ la-la ♪ (john)and this is, you know,entertaining space. it's like havinga whole nother living room. this is only, like, half of our outdoor room. the greenscape brothers,our landscapers, they just did a wonderful job giving you guys severaldifferent entertaining areas.
roald, you recognize those? (roald)uh, yeah. (pye)these are nice. (roald)well, sweetie, i want-- i would like to takefull credit, but that would beperjury on my part. (john)you almost can't havean outdoor space without a fire pit. (pye)that is so cool.
(john)the last thingwe need to talk about is the steps. right. the challenge was, how do we make it fit in this space... and also honor what the steps are? (john)our thought here was...
oh. i get it. almost like a historicalplaque at first. oh, that's so sweet. but these stepsare the big events, you know,quen born in '99, moved to wavelandin 2000... - oh.- katrina in 2005... birmingham,you married roald, and then now, 2015,the steps have led you home.
this is really lovelysymbolism, john. it really is. aw. [sniffles] (john)pye had a long journeyback to waveland, and the lastlittle part of that had to do with gettinga tiny house, and that zack and iwere there for that part of--for the culmination
of what had beena ten-year journey, that was really special. thank you. (quen)the steps with the timeline, that was just powerfulbecause it shows that it's been a very longand powerful journey, and now we're here. all we have leftto do now is to give you...
oh, the key. the keyto your new house. [sobbing] - thank you.- oh. and now we will getout of your guys' way and let you guysgo enjoy the house. - okay?- no. - no. all right.- no. or we'll stayand party then.
i like that better. (pye)let's go hang outby the fire. i heard somethingabout burgers. let's go hang outby the fire. (pye)where you going? we just got settled in.[laughs] (john voice-over)as the newest membersof the tiny house community, pye, roald, and quenare set up to enjoy coastal life once againin waveland, mississippi,
but how has livingthe tiny life actually been for them? we're catching up with themone month later to find out. i love this frame. it is prettyspectacular. (pye)i can't say enough about how wonderful it feelsto be back on this property. even now, weeks later,it still takes my breath away. it's magical.that's it.
do you want baconthis morning? (roald)ah, just some toast.that'd be great. (roald)the kitchen space is,of course, very different from what we had before,but when we cook together, we definitelyhave to tag team. did you put toastin already, love? no, i haven't. - okay...- if you want slip-- yeah, that'd be great.
- let me back out of your way.- okay. (roald)downsizing in termsof appliances, you know, i used to havea big coffee maker. - that's true.- i had a toaster. but the oven, it makestoast in a minute. the eggs okay? farm freshis the best. you know,on wednesdays, they have the littlefarmer's market in town.
(pye)the one thing i missis our eating area. it'd be niceif we could maybe have an extensionon this, and it'd be niceif we could look out while we eat. to have to lowerthe table and all this kind of--it's a lot, so to havea little area that we can sit and eattogether in the morning
would be nice. no syrup? - mm-mm.- no? (quen)living in waveland again, there's a lot of thingsthat are new, but there's a lotof very familiar things, like the beach--it's how i remember it-- the town. it's really nice.
my computer deskis working very well, and the monitor systemis really good. we've madea few changes. we've gotten theselarge storage bins that are workingreally well, and we can slide 'em upunder the steps. i had to get ridof a lot of shoes, and i've had to adjust. i keep what i need out,
and i store the rest away. and we're able to utilizea lot of vertical space. we've done thatin the bathroom and then in our closet. (roald)but when you both tryto use the closet area at the same time,that's kind of tight. it's like a dance we'renot doing very well. - yeah.- [laughs] (pye)roald, i think we're gonnaneed, like, knives.
(quen)probably the worst partabout living tiny is, noise carries throughoutthe entire house, so you can hear everythingthat's going on in every room. (roald)shall i get some stuffout of the fridge? (pye)it's not that it's noisy, but everything carries, and so at 10:00at night, we can be laying in bed, and i can hear keysclicking upstairs
as quen's on his computer. but we've got to livein this house and work together on it, and we've had to findour times together. (roald)you know,on the other hand, as parents,it's not a bad thing, 'cause he can't sneakout of the house or, you know,bring in a girlfriend without us knowing.
(pye)the fold-down tableworks really well. (roald)are we expecting500 or 600 people? i'm not sure, but i'mreally excited about it. - hey.- hey. (both)how are you? (pye)so good. - check it out.- this looks awesome. (pye)look at that. (pye)best decision we made
was to go withthat open floor plan. i think that'sgiven us more space. (roald)you know, it just flows. it doesn't feellike a tiny house at all. (roald)you really don't feellike you're claustrophobic. - right.- it's a wonderful feeling. [indistinct chatter] (pye)we use the outdoor spaceevery day. it's part of the house.
(roald)it's actually given usnearly double the space that we wouldotherwise have. that's justbrilliant design. i'm pretty convinced that i will livethe rest of my days here. this is not somethingi feel like we're gonna grow out of. - oh, i'm so happy.- oh. [sighs]
yeah.go ahead. how can i follow that up? [both laugh]