Take a peek inside the tiny house of a woman living her best life full of travel and adventure
The average American home is larger than ever at a whopping 2,200 square feet!
That’s a lot of space (to live in, but also to clean and decorate).
Some people either don’t need or don’t want all of that – but most simply can’t afford it in the areas where they want to live. For people with student loan debt or working dream jobs without dream salaries, money is better spent elsewhere than on buying real estate.
And some of us just want freedom – a place to lay our heads but not be rooted in one particular place.
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Now Jenna is some combination of these things. She was working a job she hated just to get by, paying student loans, and longing to see the world.
But unlike many of us in that situation, she put her foot down and changed things.
It’s a bold move.
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But as a “full-time happiness addict” as of 2013, she wouldn’t give it up for anything.
An integral part of her ability to live her new life is her tiny house.
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It’s a lifestyle she now advocates for those who want freedom from the norm and a life of adventure (whatever that mean to them), no matter what their age, on her blog and Instagram page:
“From 2014-2015, I visited more than thirty U.S. States and five Canadian Provinces with my Tiny House in tow. Along the journey, I met dozens of like-minded people embracing alternative lifestyles. I was inspired by them because I know how difficult it can be to choose a different path to what society deems as normal. I began sharing their stories, as well as the challenges and benefits of living small on this blog,” Jenna explained on her blog Tiny House, Giant Journey.
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Her home has been featured on HGTV and as inspiration on many other sites that inspire people to live their best life.
In a video on the FLORB YouTube channel, her home has been seen by millions. In 2017, she gave a tour that has been viewed over 13 million times, starting with the construction of the house.
From a little coat rack to flowers in the window, she found space for the tiny details that are both practical and beautiful.
A place to “hang your hat,” so to speak.
And while her home even has a tiny outside porch, that still leaves room inside for a big window to make things cheery and bright.
Here’s Jenna in her living room/office/spare bedroom.
See, all it takes is some imagination!
She also managed to build a “staircase” up to her loft where she sleeps.
“I call it a hidden staircase because a lot of time people come in here and ask me, ‘How do you get up into the loft?’ So it’s my closet, it’s my pantry, and it’s also my staircase.”
You’ll have to take a look at the video below if you want to see how that works.
Her rustic kitchen isn’t spacious but it gets the job done efficiently.
Here, you can see part of it below her lofted bed that she shared with her pup, Salies.
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It’s hard to believe all the creative spaces she’s found for storage in her tiny home, but Jenna has everything she needs, and then some.
And best of all, the home can go wherever she wants to travel (by road, at least).
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Jenna is still living part-time in the tiny home on Whidbey Island in Washington, which she rents out on Airbnb when she’s not using it. The rest of the time she’s traveling abroad or living with her boyfriend in his own 500-square-foot cottage in Seattle.
She’s saving up to be able to pay cash for a slightly bigger tiny home of 600-700 square feet so she can raise a family. But the original tiny home will always be what gave her her start on life’s big adventure.
Be sure to scroll down below to take a peek inside at the rest of the details, such as the shower and tiny bathtub where she washes all that adventure dirt off of Salies’ paws.
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Source: FLORB via YouTube, Tiny House, Giant Journey, @tinyhouseegiantjourney via Instagram, The Atlantic, Demographia