She built $5k Tiny House now a Not-So-Tiny Cabin & teaches others how
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Video Chapters:
0:00 - intro
0:50 - her tiny home journey
2:35 - the additions
4:27 - rainwater catchment system
5:34 - rooftop greenhouse
6:18 - wool insulation problems
7:32 - interior cabin tour
9:37 - wood cookstove
12:06 - thermal mass for heat
13:38 - women's carpentry classes
14:35 - about Wild Abundance
14:54 - upstairs tour
16:50 - passive solar design
19:00 - her apothecary
19:16 - Tiny House Academy
20:49 - tour cont'd
23:40 - log cabin chinking
24:21 - kid's room
25:11 - self-reliance & interdependency
26:03 - not-so-tiny benefits
27:50 - hello from Tiny House Expedition
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Learn to build your own home! 👉 *Sign-up for the online Tiny House Academy by 11/11 & save $100 w/code $100OFF at* bit.ly/3U193k6 🏡Natalie is a DIY builder & Wild Abundance director. She built a tiny log cabin then added on as her family grew. It's full of great design ideas & permaculture principles. Natalie & her school teach carpentry, Earthskills, gardening & homesteading. 👉 *WATCH a tour of this couple's beautifully decorated, 6'5" tall man-friendly gooseneck tiny home:* czcams.com/video/K8dYeSUKZKU/video.html
She is obviously in a warmer area, as her pipe from her roof would have problems in areas with hard freezes. I find a corner pantry is much better at using corner space than any other arrangement, though she could a have fit a small or tankless water heater in beneath the corner to preserve the views instead of trying to make a stove, cabinets and counters fit, with the stove beside it. Then to access it just move out the stove, should the need arise.
Would add cob around the cookstove to moderate house temperatures.
Thanks for coming out, y'all! I was so honored to be featured.
@Wild Abundance our absolute pleasure! We greatly appreciate the opportunity to collaborate ♥️😘
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😂 first person to admit they hate fridge noises. BUT😳 seriously we need more schools and educational system like this like why isn't our world teaching people to survive.
💯agree!
I SO AGREE . HATE FRIDGE AND UPRIGHT FREEZER NOISE !
We do try to teach that through our school! 😉
Mom used to say our refrigerator was giving birth when it made those noises due to the ice maker !! We could hear it in our living room ,which was not on that wall !! Hallway & stairs separated the spaces ! 😂
@@62WILDCAT 🤣
Natalie has not only built a creative and intentional home but even more importantly, a creative and intentional life. Good on her.
Well said ☺
Good for her!
And an intentional community. Even if it's not permanent on site the people she touches are a community of like minded people supporting and learning from eachother.
"Not so tiny" is a good concept. Two of us live in 600 square feet, with an unfinished basement of the same size, that has a low ceiling, but it is dry and good for storage. We are on a small urban lot, but we garden, and preserve.
When we purchased this little house it had been claimed by colonies of chipmunks, and mice, and the basement flooded frequently and was full of mold and mildew. 12 years of renovating later we live in this little space, and it is crowded because we are still renovating, so we have tools for building, for gardening, for food preservation, and for food preparation. I imagine we will be renovating, and tweaking this space until we are carried out in boxes at the end of our lives, but the journey sure is fun.
Unfortunately there is no community of like minded people in the urban area where we live, we are considered to be be extremely eccentric by those living around us. So here I am watching videos of people who live a similar lifestyle, good to know there are others out there!
You are in great company here! Sounds like a massive & impressive undertaking, and appreciate your honest perspective on the never ending project. It’s all about the journey ❤️
I'm in SW Virginia with pretty much the same situation you have. Where are you?
I appreciate her honesty about "not so tiny". A 400-800 square foot home is small but, to me, more like a home. She is very inspirational and a talented lady. Thank you for sharing this, Tiny House Expedition!
Our pleasure! There is so much longterm flexibility with the not-so-tiny size range, and we think a modest home on wheels living can help many save up for a small home on property. It certainly did for us, and we carry many lessons from our extra tiny house with us ☺️✨
What an amazing self-made creative women! Not only has she created a life and is self taught,, but she's now sharing it and empowering others. She's really someone special.. We definitely need some many more of her in this world. Loved this Video!
We agree completely Paul! Natalie is a gem ✨
Y'all have me blushing!
Natalie I have to agree with all the compliments you are receiving. I think we all feel admiration for the life you have created.🥰 I might be a little biased as I too live in NC and love Asheville😂
I restore and refinish furniture and you have def inspired me. I am interested in your school, to expand my knowledge, tho we are living in a relatively small home now...around 1500sq ft. But we have lots of grandkids running through it(I love it!)
We did live in a tiny home, but were glad to expand to our current home. However, as we getting older we both are intrigued with living smaller. Thank you for sharing your life with us and your daughter is just beautiful❤️
I went to Wild Abundance for class! Natalie and her instructors are just as awesome as her beautiful home and campus!!
so happy to hear that; thank you for sharing! ☺️
so happy to hear that!
She has lots of creative touches, wisdom about passive means, and knowledge!
So much wisdom! We had the best time with Natalie 💕
I totally 💯 ❤ agree with You, James. 😅😊
Natalie sounds like a pretty amazing woman. And she's right about 'not so tiny' houses. I live in a 750 sq ft cabin and it is about the perfect size for me as a single senior, and it even includes a really good size art studio. I love that she has an online school to teach people how to build their own tiny - or not-so-tiny homes! Such an inspiration!
Congrats on your cabin! Natalie is a truly genuine, smart, talented lady 😊
I really love how she stressed more of a mindful design of your home. We want to downsize, but we want a livable long term space. Now she has me thinking of taking online just to learn skills but also to help us visualize what we actually need and want. What a wonderful video just for the wealth of information she provided. Thank you!
Mindful is the key word! Thrilled to share❤️
Natalie's home is awesome !
If I was 30 years younger ( I'm completing my 79th year on Earth 🌍! as of December 2022 ) I'd be following her classes & creating my own !
So agree about bathtubs. A friend has her big jetted tub in her bedroom ! I'd make that space a livable reading relaxing space too. Her toilet is within a little room on the other side of that big room with a door , sink is in there too ! And a small shower. Which is really nice for rinsing off sweaty or garden dirty body before luxuriating in the 🛁 bathtub.
The green house of course is awesome too.
And her KITCHEN WOW !
Maybe in my next lifetime !!
For now ,I'm feeling thrilled for all the young adults ,teenagers etc who are embracing this way of BEING & teaching & sharing with others.
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Thank you for the love! Your friend’s bathroom setup sounds fantastic 😄😊💕
I was really excited to see Rob Greenfield associated with her school because his was one of the first videos I watched on urban foraging.
Her house touches my heart and the fact that she shares her skills with others is so kind in a frequently “can’t be bothered “ world.
Thank you for this video!
Oh, gosh... I'm so envious of this homestead she has created! I'm too old now to start such a project, but I still dream of starting out with a pre-built tiny house on wheels, on a plot of land, and then adding outbuildings to support all that's needed to have a life off-grid. And, ideally, add other people in their own tiny houses on wheels. Sigh.
Thanks for bringing us this GREAT story. It's wonderfully inspiring. 🙏😊💞
Never to old
Love the dream! Maybe with a few friends, the land development part would be less daunting. 😊 So very happy to share!
It's not too late! Long story short, at 67 I purchased a thow and had to put it in a mobil home park(not ideal). But I'm saving my money to purchase some property to move permanently. I am 69 now and still have big dreams!🥰
@@robingoldman5944 congratulations! Please let us know if might want to collaborate in the future 😊 tinyhouseexpedition.com/get-featured/
@@robingoldman5944 Thanks for that inspiring message! I read it in the midst of a meltdown while downsizing a lifetime of possessions to fit into a tiny rental house I'm moving into -- all while facing the uncertainty around what the future holds in this global meltdown. Living smaller is good, certainly. But I'm torn about giving up all the tools, supplies and misc. resources I've gathered with the hope of living on a largely off-grid homestead -- which will then make me MORE reliant on an increasingly unreliable systems for grid power, goods and services (we had two large-area power outages here in Portland, just this week). It is especially concerning in these increasingly uncertain times. I happen to be 67 now, also, and don't have the resiliency I did even 3 years ago (pre-worldwide crises). I hope I'll be able to carry on and achieve a more secure, smaller lifestyle, as you did. It's nice to hear others being optimistic and still having 'big dreams'! And best of luck in your property acquisition! 🌟🤞
Just WOW! She is an amazing woman with an amazing home. LOVED every second of this video! TY!
Absolutely to hear that! Natalie truly is amazing ♥️
what a nice comment! Thank you!
I love it when a tiny house evolves into a bigger dwelling..more creativity to see and dream about..
great ideas💡
Love the concept of tiny but not so tiny. That’s what I have been struggling with. You hit the nail of the head for most of us that are hesitant. Thank you!
It’s a very tough choice! We do think for many tiny can be a stepping stone to not so tiny; it was for us 😁
I feel like she really knows what she is doing. An knows how to manovour an save the capacity of a space. Very intelligent an intriguing.
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Natalie has a very well thought out plan for rustic beauty and charm. I like her spirit. Every space has a function from her greenhouse to her apothecary.
Such a thoughtful home 😌✨
If I were 50 years younger or in good bone health, I would be attending your classes with my 4 children! But...I shall frwd your video onto younger friends that have this desire 🤩.
God Bless you
Brook
I hear what you're saying opybrook. My head dreams of building something more tiny, but my back says: No! - beeyotch!. So I lull myself to sleep each night designing more rooms for my imaginary tiny space, and feed on these videos. All power to the tiny movement!
An incredible combination of nature inside the house. The children's room is my favorite❤
A magical room! ✨
You go, grrrrlfriend! I'm 65 and bought a 16 x 40 shed to finish out as my tiny cabin. I'm far enough along to live in it but isn't even close to finished inside, lol. I have electric and partial plumbing I still have to finish. Ceiling is still plastic over my rock wool insulation. I'm collecting wood to do my ceiling so might be a minute. Pallets and old fencing will be my ceiling.
You are a wealth of information. Thank you for reminding me how powerful we women are. Although, I completed a construction for women 16 years ago. Watching your not so tiny house video I’m reminded I can do this. Thank you! ❤
You can do it! 💕☺️
You totally can!
Wonderful ! This is the level i would like to be at in my life and in control of my life and creative time.
Freedom living at its best! 💕
How marvelous 🤗👍👍😳🤔. Marvelous life for all concerned. Love the quirkiness of this house. Shelves built under the stairs quite Lovely. Thanks everyone 🤗
Lovely quirky homes are our favorite 🤗
@@TinyHouseExpedition thank you.
This is exactly the kind of video I was looking for.
That’s just what we want to hear 😄☺️✨
I love the way you started Small and built on as needed 😍.
JO JO IN VT 😆💕🍁💨
Really a smart way to go about it! 😁💚
This was great. I used to watch HGTV and the renovations of large spaces, I think more for watching how something is done right rather than large. I realized the tiny house movement was for me as it relates to my family home and I migrated downstairs to the first floor over the years and did not need the second floor. Now I am looking to sell the family home since I have basically lived with my daughter for the past 7 years. She lives in a habitat for humanities home and as I look at the size of the garage which is 400 square feet, I attempt to picture if the studio I intend to build would be big enough, even if extended to 500 square feet. Natalie is correct, a not so tiny home is best. I imagine the work stations needed. A sleeping area that can be completely dark for the best sleep. A bathing situation as I am getting older and prefer to bathe in safety.
That size range is great! Definitely makes downstairs bedrooms much easier. Best wishes with your planning Evelyn ❤️
You are truly an inspiration Natalie! I LOVE watching this. I am so proud of you!
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I LOVE the "Not so tiny"! I love what you have done with it! Love the different woods and the doors and archways! Love all of the artistic designs that you have put into it! Thank you so much for taking us on the tour! 🤩
Glad you like it! ☺️✨
Currently fridge is in my cabin but I'm building a deck out back to build my laundry room on which will also house my fridge so no noise from major appliances in my cabin either, yeaaaa!!
Awesome!
What a homey beautiful place to live.I love it!
She really created a wonderfully inviting, cozy home 💓
This young lady is so cute and smart. She sounds like what mother nature sounds like. She's so cool and crafty. Good job.
Love that, “what Mother Nature sounds like” 😃💚🌞✨
Excellent content! I like learning about smaller, progressive, ecological enterprises. And, run by women, to boot! Yay!
Thank you very much!
I love this. There doesn't have to be this or that... there can be the middle. I love how she started tiny and added what she needed along the way. Wonderful.
I love that she stresses practicality over theory and unctuousness. And, that her playful aesthetics are always present in her thoughtful
designs. But, mostly a tiny home won't work for most of us, even if we live alone. A size bigger fits most of us much better.
Natalie! You & your daughter have a beautiful home! You should start an ongoing channel of your lifestyle. I’m sure you’d have a huge audience. 💛
Beautiful wood stove!
That thing is a beast, in the best way 😄
This might just be my favorite tiny home video that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a ton)…what a beautiful, quaint home.
So happy to hear that ❤️☺️
You are an awesome soul, grow, live, and share. Absolutely wonderful intro to so much more...🙏🌞
Thank you for the kind comment! ❤️
Your great and smart a woman never seen before, May God bless you.
I like her "not so tiny" idea. I can always use more storage spaces.
Ditto!
She made a good point. I would also like a not so tiny house to share with family.
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I Think you are right Natalie. I have a small she shed/ tiny house for me to do my arts and crafts, do my lyric writing, and poetry etc. But to live, I think even for two people should be about 800 square feet
Impressive passive solar design 👏
🌞just so practical!
Love this lady's philosophy and first saw her on Tiny House Giant Journey--so awesome seeing her featured on yours!!
Thanks for watching! We love Natalie ❤️
now this is actually genius
I have seen her house before and loved it then, but it's even better now!
Can I also say how much I relate to the fact that she's happily and brazenly sporting two different socks 🤣😍🤣🤣 it's about thickness and material, am I right?
So right! 😆
Love the video. I’ve been telling my friends that I want an XL tiny house😂Now, I feel vindicated! I’m betting 600 sq ft will carry me through to very old age.🥳
Great video sharing ideas of permaculture and thermal mass structures..
Natalie has so much wisdom to share 💕
Very impressive!
Natalie is incredible!
Love the wood stoves ❤
So cozy!
I love her take on future proofing ... and allowing a thougtful growth...
What a great educational and creative vid this is! I myself have run the gamut from quite large to smaller (400 sq ft) to tiny (200 sq ft) to slightly larger than tiny (600 sq ft). There's a sweet spot there for everyone.
Thank you very much Joanne 🥰
This would be great for High School shop classes.
Absolutely!
Lovely way of thinking and living.
Charming! I love how it has grown almost organically!
I agree with the not so tiny concept
A wonderful range! The main challenge for some is the cost of land, but THOW life can be a stepping stone to not-so-tiny 😅
This is amazing so simple and comfortable feeling...living small but large sustainable thank you
Well said! ❤️
I love a place lots of dimensions..
A very encouraging video, if I would live closer ,Iwould take part in one or two courses of yours. You are ever so inspiring to me. Thank you so much. I look a lot of clips about tiny houses, and living in such a space would be satisfying to me. What I actually don´t like about them is, that they are so narrow. For instance if you sit on the sofa and strech your legs you "nearly" reach the opposite wall, if I´m with family or friends and have a chat, I don´t like to sit beside them, such a setting is okay with reading or watching TV or working but not for talking, just my feeling and wish. Now that I watched your video and you said "not so small" , knowing this sounds simple and logical ,it really gave me a "push" . Yes! Why not? So easy and thank you again. Your house is lovely, and again , again thanks for sharing.
Finally had time to watch! wonderful, thank you for this. I like the new intro and hope to see the cozy cabin soon. I agree with a not so tiny home idea, just need to get there, not quite ready yet.
Yay! Glad you did. ☺️ You will; keep at it!
My motto in life has always been "girls can do anything!!" and this shows how true that is. Nobody starts out knowing everything about everything but we can always be shown and taught. Well done ladies who are attending this school. Often its age which brings the inclination to do things too (like gardening, art etc), but not necessarily so. Get off your butts and give it a give it a go. Ask your mates, ask Google, read a book from the library plenty of ways to learn. The only people who will know if you made a mistake is you.. so tell yourself it was a happy accident and it was meant to be...then move on. In my world 'cant' isn't there, but 'shouldn't sometimes is...if you don't have a go you will never know what you can do.. Good luck from Western Australia and thank you for showing us around your cabin...
This is Gonna b so Cool THE🔥🔥🔥👍n Happy Saturday😀….
This video was awesome...thanks! I'm so inspired. Will come back for more when I purchase my land.
😁...yes Winter
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How beautiful her cabin is. I’m listening and seeing the cabin and I cannot imagine that she built it by herself( I mean alone. Please note that I’m not under estimating her but on the contrary I do understand her because in many countries in Africa. I wish to be younger and healthier and live near her so that I could take a couple of classes on how to build. Thank you for sharing this.😊oh, ( there are an online classes!)
She had help from friends & interns 😃😊
Thx and God bless you.
We have an online class! It's available now!
@@gladysperez8156 if you’re interested, sign-up for their online Tiny House Academy by 11/11 & save $100 w/code $100OFF at bit.ly/3U193k6
Very rustic beautiful views would love the green house this is something id love and be very comfy living in one very interesting women full of knowledge
Hope you go for it!
Love this vid interview or documentary or explanation. Love the reasonable and open mindedness of this woman speaking. I've been looking at tiny houses...mainly for financial freedom reasons. But many tiny house builders are far from reasonable in their pricing. Many range between 250 to 300 per sq ft and then there's the lot they will lease you for permanent rent. It's eternal slavery. Im seeking to be free as possible and comfortable as possible. I need to be able to stand up in whatever room or area of my house I'm in. I can't crawl on my hands and knees to get to my bed or wherever.
wonderful home
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Love what you did with your place
Wow..Learned soo much with this one. Love the passive Solar promotion. 👌
Passive solar is so darn practical! 💛
I just in awe!!! Would love to visit Wild Abundance.
It’s an enchanting place 💖
Top 5!
Happy to hear it! 😁😊
what a nice compliment! thank you!
I am about to start my tiny home. I will be connecting with Winona LaDuke to use hempcrete. I'm a mile walking distance from the Buffalo River.
Fantastic; best wishes with the build! Please give us a shout when you’re done 😊 tinyhouseexpedition.com/get-featured/
This was so interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Continue with the board and batten siding on the second floor to make the home look like it was built intentionally instead of piece meal.
It was built intentionally but hear your point on cohesion of the siding. To each their own on the aesthetic choices, though 😁😊
Awesome video!!
Thank you Katie! ☺️
Your home is beautiful 👍
Excellent video. Thank you!
Love your home thanks for video
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Fantastic love everything 💚
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I want to live that life!!!!
I love this!
Thanks for watching! ☺️
Beautiful ❤️ #BLESSINGS
Thanks for watching! ☺️
عرض موفق باذن الله تعالى
I’d love to take your online classes. I used to know construction work but suffered a traumatic head injury n now I barely remember what I learned. I definitely need to go tiny bc I just can’t afford to survive. Living with my adult son is not fair to him. And it would be awesome to learn how to create exactly what I am looking for n needing. I’d love to find a mountainside community where I can live an independent life but find good neighbors to help b get help from. Becoming involved. But maintain my own privacy as well in a beautiful setting. But it needs to be affordable. So if you ever heard of any such place I’d love to hear about that too. I have many gifts to contribute and be helpful and feel a sense of belonging and finally fitting in somewhere but once I find that, I really want to get started before I physically can’t do the majority of the work on my own house. Do you think you can help? I’d love to learn how to build no matter what. N you should be proud of everything you’ve created. We’re actually kindred spirits. So I’d love to talk sometime. Take care.
I think you're amazing
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This home doesn't appear to have been built to code, or with permits, given the cost to build. Does North Carolina allow building without a permit, or are there certain conditions to do so?
Depends on county, and foundation, a house on "skids" needs NO permits , but again it's the county within NC. To be honest, it needs to stay that way, large government is to much, and those "codes" are only a way for them to get paid
Will you be able to live in this house on this type of property when you get even older like 60 and 70's. it seems a bit rough for anyone who has balance issues which many elderly do... How practical are these type of homes for the elderly ? Thanks
Wool with Borax doesn't remain bug free? or you thought yours was treatedAnd it wasn't?
What is the cheapest material to clad a shed?
Wow! I love everything you have done. You definitely have a lot of food and fantastic add ons. Now I have to be mean and get on your case about your dirty stove. Everything else is nice and tidy except for your stove.
Please spell the solar used. And where I can purchase.
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Sooo what was the price in totally?
If you have a big or huge family living under one roof even owning a big house could have less of a footprint than those living in small houses because less materials per person and people sharing bathrooms, appliances and kitchens. I would say small houses are generally not good for your family of 12
No one is advocating living in a small home with 12 but instead living in a home that suits your needs 😁
سلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته
Statistics tell us that 66% of American homes have mold issues.... Being in a woodland area and that fungus/ mold love wood do you have any issues with mold growing in your home or excess moisture? .... if so how do you deal with it. Thanks.
We are in Western North Carolina. Mold is definitely an issue here. We have good external venting kitchen and bathroom fans, our closets are open without doors and our bed has slats for a foundation instead of a solid foundation. Also, we have exterior surfaces that are cedar shou sugii ban to preserve against mold, insect and fire.
My husband is a functional medicine practitioner. One of the areas we address with an individual's health is mold exposure and elimination.
I like the idea of a debt free lifestyle. But, our national economy is built on the premise that the citizenry should be locked in debt to expand the economy. If we all lived debt free our economy would collapse. Our system of banking requires that people pay interest on debt that creates a return for the few that invest and not save as was our economy of 150 years ago. It is a total bummer but explains why we fantasize about things like no debt tiny home lifestyles. Cheers
Interesting points! Doubtful that a critical mass would ever be able to achieve debt-free status to cause major trouble. It's a lifestyle that definitely creates a lot of individual freedom 😊
@@TinyHouseExpedition I am retired and live with no more debt than I can pay off with personal savings. Next to nothing for interest on savings. But I understand the system of economics that has developed in this modern world. Most can't live like we do. Cheers
Interesting perspective 🙂 but not necessarily truth. Depends what you personally need to grow live share.
This is gorgeous -- not unlike my grandparents' handhewn home. (About the personal spiritual practices, I'd be a lot more comfortable if that was in a different video. Please stick to the houses.)