It bothers me so badly that cities are towns are banning these tiny homes, while allowing landlords to make the rental market unaffordable for so many. They rather see ‘tent cities’ than see rows of beautiful tiny homes. All because those people will no longer be paying to the landlords, who been lining their pockets over the years too look the other way. Governments are now given fines too people who are using their own backyards too be build a tiny house, even if it’s for a family member. Now the government is telling people what they can and can not build on their own properties. Yet they make the people who are actually trying look like they are the dead beats of society! It’s times like this I wish I could win millions, so I could buy land, just so people could bring their tiny homes and live again without worry..

Yea they change the building code in ontario. 10x10 no permit cannot be used for living only as storage. Just updating for ppl who gonna do the same

In my area you don't need a permit for 120 square feet or less. However, once you decide to put utilities in that space, all sorts of permits and codes come into play.

Someplaces, you can build something under a certain size without a permit, but you can't occupy it. Magic loopholes aren't always really that magical. I might do something like this, but I wouldn't tell everyone on the internet.

What a symbol of positive masculinity for a man to leave a safe space like this behind to his widow. Blessings.

Love it. BUT what's the deal with all the water damage. That was all I could think about.

I always loved tall living spaces like towers ❤

I feel like this is the perfect place for a spiral staircase to be used. Have an iron one custom made. Would look so sick.

What a beautifully done ukposts.infoUgkxYGamVaHfdHiPlAQaLa7zkwR02OKpGYDU ! The instructions and the photographs are brilliant. It is thorough and genuinely informative. Ryan got another winner! No one does it better!

Nice tiny house. You could have a built in closet under the staircase. You could also have pull out draws between the steps for storage. Great idea with building up instead of building out. Love it.

Reminds me of a big version of the old red telephone boxes dotted all over the u k in the past , loved them !

Fabulous tiny!! Love the design and compact but spacious footprint ❤

As someone who is about to upgrade my kitchen and downstairs living area, her comment, “don’t design something ugly.” Really resonated. I’m very artistic so I know ugly when I see it, but I don’t know how to work with 3-D design… furniture with color and texture and sizes, etc. So, it sounds like I will be taking her other piece of advice- I’ll get some help! Lol 😅 PS I like that she compared this to a folly from the past. Wealthy land owners in England would build what looked to be like ruins of some ancient castle onto some piece of their land. Then they would take guests out for luncheons and day trips. So by comparing this red tower to a folly, they didn’t make it for full time living- more like day tripping. (Not “that” kind of tripping! 🙃) aAnd that is why it is a big job for her now that she wants to repurpose and retrofit things to create a more livable space.

I always wanted an excuse to have a spiral staircase. This would be a great design for one since there isn't much furniture up stairs to make it cumbersome

Here in the US if it's on wheels you can find even more loopholes since it isn't classified as a permanent structure.

0:13 is this water damage?

Finally, a tiny house video where the house is actually tiny!

Very nice!! You’re setting the stage. It’s alway good to see more ways to go tiny!! The view is priceless.

you could side Murphy bed the loft, and get the lounge made modular so it could be moved, yet still built in....... great space,,, love it...... looks like a big red phone box, in an awesome way

I built a 196sq ft tiny house like 4 years ago with a 96sq ft upper loft and a 100sq ft first floor. The loft has a 2x8 removable floor on one side so you could get furniture up there and still have a whole floor minus the 2x2 ladder entrance in one corner. It can sleep 4 people and had a full kitchenette with a toilet and an outdoor shower because I built it beside my existing water spigot and ran an appliance extension cord out to it and made it a temporary building by using the weight of the second floor loft to hold the first floor together because the first floor was built out of concrete blocks that were only mortared for the base since you need a permit for anything higher than 4ft with concrete blocks but built as square shaped retaining walls. I loose placed the rest of the blocks to a height of 6"4 since you can stack blocks up to 6"8 without having to mortar them. I then built the loft with a heavy timber frame that was checkered to add extra support to the upper floor since the flooring would be missing 2ft of floor that was open to below and I couldn't use 2x10s for the loft flooring because of the air gap it would create at the top of the concrete blocks so I covered the block tops with flat 2x8s to seal them off and then used 2x6x10s across an 8x10 area and then added 2x4x8s laid flat across the 2x6s so that it created square timber support for the upper floor and then I had a pole installed by the ladder which doubled as a handrail for the loft ladder and the support beam for the open side of the upper loft. I used a bathroom over the toilet storage rack as floating hanging shelves in my kitchenette that were suspended from the exposed upper koft rafters and 2 of those (minus the legs that came with them) perfectly held all of the dishes and kitchen utensils and such and I built the kitchenette out of an old grill bottom so there were shelves in the middle with two empty spaces on each side of it which I put short barstools in and the shelves were the perfect size to fit a microwave and small convection oven. I built a butcher block countertop for it (after removing the grill) and then beside it I put a mini fridge with a stove eye on top of it. I bought a backpack that had a built in water pouch with a tube you could drink water out of and I cut the pouch out of the bookbag and hung it above the countertop with a small sink tub that also hung on the wall beside a dish drying rack so I could pull it down off the wall and wash dishes in and then put back up so that my counter space could be used as the dining area or office space too. I then suspended a small metal shelf from the rafters and had space for a small tv, toaster, George foreman grill, silverware, measuring cups and whatnot. All of that fit into a 2x7 area of the first floor which gave me a 2x3 toilet area which has roll up bamboo curtains that went all the way to the floor around the toilet but could also be rolled back up and a cushion could cover the toilet (which had a lid) while hiding it if I needed an extra seat. There was also a futon loveseat with an end table beside it that an antique typewriter sat on and a small trunk that doubled as a coffee table and that was the first floor. - Living room area that also could sleep 2 people, dining area, kitchen, office & bathroom in 100 SQ ft. The upper loft has a queen sized mattress in it, a 2x4 closet, two 4 drawer plastic dressers, a headboard, mini cubby holes and an antique leather topped end table with a small tv & DVD player sitting on it. I covered the outside with vinyl siding to hide the change from concrete block to timber framing and then added a slanted metal roof. It stands a smidge over 12 ft tall and it cost me $34 dollars to build it by using donated and recycled and repurposed materials for it all and I just barely got by without needing a permit by using the materials the way that I did.

Love your red box home. Good for you building it!!!

No doubt about it, it’s absolutely amazingly and stunningly beautiful!!!

I absolutely love the regular creative videos I've gotten used to from you, but I'm definitely interested in how you go about making them as well, I could see a balance between the two working well here. That said I would be sad if the more high effort videos started dissapearing

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing your home and story ❤

Exterior wrap around stairwell that leads upstairs that can be enclosed wider steps as storage by them wrapping around the height gives plenty of enclosed space.

I would love it for an Art Studio! Perfect!

Work smarter not harder! Good for them, brilliant idea. Love it!❤

Great idea, ever thought of a water from air machine and a composting toilet. I have seen a large net as a floor in your void next to your sleeping area.

In our county anything you can walk under needs a permit , always check with permitting.

Can you still avoid permitting if you build several 10x10 structures (some distance apart) and connect them with "hallways"? Probably not but it's a thought. Or maybe connect them with tunnels underground?

What an absolutely wonderful set up

This is amazing build great job

As an architect, the way this woman talks about this house makes my skin crawl. the humble brag is real. also blaming sb else for not planning a straicase in advance. Golden ratio. Healing the land by building on it. Definitely being not a container, just a container (and japanese?!) "inspired sculpture". Holy lord, so much BS crammed into such a short span of time, bless her. And don't build something ugly!! 😂

Absolutely gorgeous I love this your design it is just awesome it's beautiful

This is still my favorite build. Love the outdoor kitchen, keeps the moisture outside. (Outside shower too).❤❤❤

I think with a small space like that, I would have tried to build the stairs outside spiral around the house. The tiny house looks amazing congratulations.

I love the square window sculpting.. :-)

Awesome… there is always a LOOP HOLE 🕳 😊👍 🏡

Maybe the stairs could be converted into storage at least near the bottom? Gorgeous land!! So lovely.

I love how you design as you learn more

Cool idea...spiral staircase probably would be safer...and does seem like a lot of leaking at some point..unless they used wood that was already damaged and that is how they kept the low budget...if so i think I would have sanded

Some places do have height limits on allowed footprint, and permits required if adding concrete base, occupation, electricity, or plumbing. But cool idea and design. Just beautiful!

wind loadings? Stability?

Really inspiring! Thank you

I kept telling people there's a square footage loophole, and you proved me right. There is a minimum that you could build without the need of building permits, I'm sure it depends on one's location to, I know some places even have limits on how high one can build. Really great idea, neat tiny house.

Adorable place. I would love to live in a place like that.

Love this so much!

beautiful, thank you for sharing

Anyone thinking to build something "2 story" for a tiny home like this, you can build the staircase outside the house like for a deck, and it may still not need a permit. Put a door at the top 👍

I love it. Very very minimalistic. I just didn’t see a closet for your clothes. It is beautiful!

Stunning. It's beautiful. ❤️

OH My goodness. Fantastic

Regardless of size, you need a permit for the electrical work that was done. That is not exempt from a permit and inspection.

Excellent I Love your Beautiful Home!❤😁

Awesome ! I'd need more of a kitchen tho ! 😅 Where I live the climate can become too harsh for a outside sink , but not do like the other person's response on making more then one 10x10 structure. One would be my kitchen ! I do love be what you did with the windows tho !❤️

fantastic good luck all the rest of the way

Since this is in Canada I'm guessing Zoning Laws are different because this wouldn't be allowed in all but ~8 Counties in the entire USA because it's a Domicile. All Counties that require Building permits in the USA have language stating that you cannot reside in an "Outbuilding" like a shed, even if it's under the SQFT maximum to require a permit.

First thing I thought of is does the 10ft parameter apply to the footprint on soil? Wonder if able to expand living area as long as it doesn't touch the ground(imagine something like a mushroom)

Thanks for the info.

Very Nice!! Thanks for sharing it!

This house looks really bespoke it looks like a cool Bristish phone box 🙂.

I watched this over & over never get tired 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💯five stars

Her dearth of knowledge is really helpful 👍🏻

It's wonderful

Looks like you had a fun time building it and enjoy the space that it created for you both while he was around, and now he has left you with those great memories to continue cherishing. All the folks on here nitpicking your 10x10 with loft... while they live in an 8x12 van 😅

Sorry about the loss of your partner. Nice looking place you got there. Would local regulations allow you to have other towers like this one that you could link together with second story platforms/bridges or enclosed decks? Perhaps if you do choose to build another tower you might consider using a small house elevator? It doesn't have to be one that is entirely electric. When I was a teen my boarding school had a hand operated OTIS platform style freight elevator. There was a motor but it never worked. We'd either pull on rope to move the platform up or down. Later the seniors designed and installed a crank mechanism that was geared for hand operation and stationary bicycle so that we could peddle our way up and down the elevator shaft. It was certainly a creative solution.

Love it looks like lots of peace.

This is incredible!

Where I live, you can build 10 x 10' but only one storey, and you can't live in it without an occupancy permit.

Be aware that to know when no permit is needed it is important to know what a permit is needed for. Permits are different in different places.

Very beautiful design.

I love it all except the huge square painting I would replace with maybe 5-6 birds which match the chandelier. It's a bit too much. I LOVE the HOUSE!! It's AMAZING!!

"Don't design something ugly" O.M.G.!. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The irony! "Don't design something ugly" as the camera pans over a red building sticking out like a sore thumb in the landscape. Not sure I'd want to hire experts to design a house. Check out Lloyd Kahn's books to see what dilettantes design.

love this ! yesss

This is beautiful 🥰 what a fantastic location 😲. I certainly could live here 🤗🇭🇲

Check the codes in your area. Many have a height limit as well as size. Another limit is that the measurement is not the walls. But the roof overhang as well. It's what the inspectors call, "The shadow at noon" (pretending the sun is directly over the structure).

As the owner said it is modelled on a folly, an architectural sculpture. They set it up to write and be creative in not to live in. It is beautiful and perfect for what it was intended.

One of my favorites! 😍

How lovely! I adore what you have done…and I bet it smells fantastic with the cedar! ♾💎

It’s a shame there’s tons of water damage occuring. I think I would have chose green siding or something to blend in more with the outdoors

She is awesome and so is this home.

Nice! Thank you!

A staircase with an entry to each floor spiraled around exterior would have been nice

If I had unlimited height I would have built that tower so much taller so I had a magnificent view. Cute space for a weekend not full time living

I think most jurisdictions the small shed can be built without a permit but cannot be used as a dwelling. Also there is a height limit as well.

Thanks👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Unless the woodgrain is unusual - it looks like there has ben alot of water damage in this home - perhpas I'm wrong.

Destroyed by farming?

This someone you would see on my Minecraft map, lol i love it!

I love love love the green hanging lamp !!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Wonderful space.... Love it !

All these opinions she has on how you should do/design everything yet not one thought on maybe designing a dwelling to be waterproof. And it’s not like a window was left open once on a rainy day. That is damage over time.

LOVE IT my suggestion rethink stairs... should only have 6 stairs then a landing ( my opinion ) guessing theirs 10 or 12 there ,,,,,, before you go out the window . sit on top step ,, close eyes and imagine yourself falling.. THANK YOU

i like the idea , thanks

Love tiny houses! So cute! You probably can fit a small barhroom+shower under the stairs.

I like it but yes what's all that moisture damage on the WALLS? I would have put a balcony at the top! I think it looks like a phone box so that's what I would have called it. THE PHONE BOX ☎️

what a beautiful house!

It’s adorable!

The very idea of requiring permits, permission from the Government, to do what you want on your own property, it should make everyone's blood boil.