Carol, a 70 years old retired woman believes that living in a micro home has increased her quality of life. The Dragons Nest tiny house offers a livable area of roughly 320 square feet: It is 38 feet long and 9.5 feet wide. She built it herself in 2019. Initially, she sought help to build her dream tiny house but due to the pandemic, she had to build it all by herself. The fact that she did everything on her own brought her closer to the small dwelling in a way that she could fix anything that went wrong in the house.
Carol has been living off-grid for three years now in a beautiful forested area on Vancouver Island, Canada. The theme of the Dragons Nest tiny house is inspired by 19th-century Roma Vardo wagons. Therefore, all the antics in her small abode were either created in the 1800s or were built in that style.
As Carol is an artist, she wanted her house to have color, texture, and pattern giving it a personality of its own. She chose downsizing as an option after having spent a lifetime living in a 4800-square-foot home to an 1100-square-foot home. Thus she decided to build a tiny house and started collecting materials in 2016. She collected reclaimed and garage sale items. A trailer deal was made to serve as the foundation of the Dragons Nest tiny house, and the plan of the house was done on paper from scratch to finish.
The cost of building the tiny home was around CAD 20,000. Such a low price was possible because the owner reused the materials already in her possession. Every single purchase was well documented so that the financials were tracked from beginning to end.
The exterior of the home is interesting and artistic as it is made using dimensional milled Douglas fir and Cedar shingles. The shingles give the appearance of dragon scales. The red-colored door is welcoming with the name of the house painted on it.
The front of the micro home has a great room that features a living and dining area with a couple of chairs and a foldable table. The kitchen completes the great room which has a beautiful ceiling purchased from Upper Canada Village having the design of pressed Victorian tin plates.
The furniture in the tiny house is the same that Carol used in her previous homes. The antiques collected by her add further beauty to the décor.
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Vardo wagons which were pulled by horses in old times used to have a nook bed so the owner found and purchased the bed box that reminded her of those wagons. It looks beautiful and cozy space.
The bathroom features a bucket toilet that is refurbished and inspired by 19th-century wooden toilets. For this, the retired woman took the help of a woodworking professional. It even has a bathtub and a beautiful basin.
It is a completely off-grid tiny house and the owner doesn’t even have access to cellular service or internet. She has a water treatment system that suffices for the tiny house. For electricity, there are solar panels and a Titan power system with a battery. Only four hours of sunlight charge the batteries. When weather is cloudy a generator is used to recharge the battery system. Once full, the system provides about three days of power.
Carol also has livestock on the land where she has parked her tiny house. She has three miniature carriage horses, two goats, chickens, and turkeys. She also keeps bees in a beautiful wooden beehive that runs horizontally and can house two hives. With the Dragons Nest tiny house, she is living a life that is close to nature and animals. She runs a Facebook group named The Dragons Nest where she publishes articles on how to live in a tiny house and living off-grid.
There are a lot of things to write about this wonderfully artistic tiny house. What we cannot convey in words, you can see that for yourself in the video below.
