This Couple Built a Tiny House for Only $400!

Meet Liam and Rachel, who built this cute 6.25-metre tiny house for just over $400. Using almost entirely recycled materials, including bits and pieces scavenged from building sites and dumpsters, the couple built their first home with no previous building experience.

The teeny little house has a small living area downstairs and above it a loft with a double bed. As they’re living in community, Liam and Rachel didn’t need to include a kitchen and bathroom, as they have shared facilities and a communal living space nearby. This is their perfect retreat, surrounded by vegetable plots and looking out onto beautiful native bush.

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[enoch]

Living proof that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Bravo!

[nannaskare]

it's a roof over their heads and IT'S

[formekajackson]

This is beautiful. That is what we are here for. To leave free and happy. Working together to make life and earth beautiful.

[m.infernal]

I would love this. Living on someone's land for "free" in exchange for taking care of it and tending their gardens. What a dream.

[TheJemmaGrl]

Great find! I LOVE to see people using discarded, recycled materials. Your tiny home doesn't HAVE to cost SO much money - if you're thrifty and resourceful. Love it.

[australianwoman]

I love this tiny home! It's got soul, unlike commercially built homes. Great job guys! 💚

[janisdavisjanis]

I see two people working very hard to provide for themselves in order to survive. Thank you so much for sharing the fruit of your labor with us. I wish you well on your journey.

[MeditationVacation]

very cool. Nice and simple way of life!

[BlueBetaPro]

I wish there were more places like this.

[jennifermichaud]

I think this is awesome. I plan on building my own tiny house in the near future (except mine will be on wheels). I love the idea of using recycled/re-purposed materials to build with. I'm in the U.S. and we have a large population of homeless people. I think tiny house communities could be awesome to use in helping families be able to afford to live in a home of their own rather than on the street. I hope this idea picks up here. Thanks for sharing.

[adambeck]

The ideas that Liam and Rachel bring up here are really insightful. I love the concept that people with land can facilitate communities by finding people eager to be a part.

[theresaast]

I am so impressed with what people are doing, building themselves, searching for and recycling materials, using communal spaces and living, gardening. They are my heros. Makes me wish I was 25 again. Blessings!

[veronicaconway]

Well done both of you. The freedom must be great.

[karribarr]

I wish I could find a community like that. I would love to have my own house

[lindseypalmer]

That's awesome of the land owners. Wish more communities like this existed!!

[greyline]

You’re both amazing! Living simply so others can simply live, perfect 👌
Peace and blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪

[georgetteandy]

I live this and I think it's key that we learn to live similar to this with the way the world is changing. I really want to learn to garden.

[RafsKitchenGardenChannel]

The idea is great, you have house built partially by yourself rather than fully by some company which is custom built exactly how you like it and also from reusable materials :) looking forward for more videos like that, great stuff.

[rollingthunder]

Great, HOME SWEET HOME!!!
In Puerto Rico, a good NOBLE couple, in 1936, let my PARENTS take a little space of their land and my PARENTS made a two bedroom hause kitchen living and dinning and paid the owner of the land only ONE DOLLAR every month then atfer i was born they paid TWO DOLLARS, we still have the house now with four small bedrooms, i still LOVE LOVE LOVE, my PARENTS HOME, and always think of the COUPLE with a heart of gold, my PARENTS raised thirteen children in that little piece of land and the owners gaved my PARENTS piece of mind. I'm very greatful for the owners unchanged ❤

[vikikearns]

You two did a great job for your first tiny house. You learned from the way you built the home. You can only get better as you grow. Good luck and I'm very proud of you two. 👍