and So, hi, my name is Zane Fisher. I'm the owner of Extraordinary Structures and this is our Salt Box Tiny House. Salt Box is a vernacular new England style of roof and although we're out here in New Mexico, the defining feature is that it's an asymmetrical roof line. At this point any time you have that kind of asymmetrical peaked roof, it's usually referred to as a salt box. In our case we did it both for sort of architectural flair and also so that one side of the house would have exactly the right length or a standard solar panel. So the roof is set up to take a whole bunch of solar. So this is our kitchen. What we do is we like to do a single core sort of plumbing infrastructure wall so that your bathroom and kitchen are back to back, minimizing the amount of plumbing and we're also using that to bias the weight inside the trailer for the best hauling but we wanted to kind of luxury too. One of the things that bugs me when I visit tiny houses is if they've got a sink that's too small because I do a lot of cooking personally so we wanted to have a nice big sink so this is bigger than you're going to have in in some apartments and then we have sort of a diverse cooking ecosystem here from a convection toaster oven to a two burner induction but you could outfit this with a larger refrigerator and more of a standard stove and oven. But these are the options that we chose for this one and we used a single piece stainless steel unit here. This fridge is a drawer. There's a drawer situation right here so it just fits right into the counter. It's small but it's very efficient. Lots of drawers, lots of storage. In fact I sometimes think there's too much storage in this place. I think it's adaptable to any person's particular sort of needs and you can really make it home. So the bathroom is you know it's bound to be small right it's in a tiny house like this but we wanted a different characteristic we have sort of a Scandinavian wood cabin style interior going on and we wanted to sort of you know create a whole different environment so we've got this bright white acrylic in here which gives you a sort of a modern flare but that's tempered with the same mosquito floors and then this deep cedar Japanese o'furo style soaking tub. My partner Catherine built this as a little piece of luxury in a small room so a bit of luxury and some brightness helps to make a small bathroom a lot more livable. This is a composting unit here. Swedish style. Yeah this unit doesn't currently have holding tanks on it right now so what you would do is either tie it into a septic or depending on your location use a gray water system or add a tank. If for example like this unit will end up spending its life probably in New Mexico you can do gray water but your kitchen water is considered black water so what we have pre-install in the kitchen sink is a valve so you could direct it to a tank or if you're not using food you could direct it to a gray water system. We like to avoid loss whenever possible they're enjoyable but we in a small space we don't want to put too much weight up above or or take up the nice air space but over the bathroom is a natural place to have a small loft can sleep up there or a kid can sleep up there I guess or I think of it as kind of a reading noof and we just have a ladder permanently mounted on the wall for a quick climb up there and it turns out it's a nice space. Little reading light and a little outlet up there makes it pretty livable. The primary bed we're using a horizontal murphy or a wall bed system so it just comes down right here so what we do is we move this little folded rocker out of the way and our furniture actually rolls so we can move it to the side right bring it out here and this guy is what actually ends up supporting your bed so that they're not in your way when you get out of bed in the middle of the night you don't end up kicking the furniture here you've got a little reading light outlets at bed height then you're right next to the window so for me this is more enjoyable than a loft. What we do here at extraordinary structures is a panelized construction system we do a computer model of anything that we're going to build we break it into component sections and then we use a CNC router or an automated system to carve out those panels in precise shapes and lock them together kind of like Legos for big kids or something like that so in this unit you can see the joints here where each two foot wide panel connects to the next one so once we've designed a structure it actually assembles quite quickly this little stove it was invented for marine applications out of the Seattle area so for fishing crews going out early who want to warm up and it's a super efficient burn in a very small package so that's why we like this stove it's really in here it was kind of showing off that there's room for luxury even in a small space primary heating and cooling in this unit is done with a mini split so you don't actually need heat but it's you know pretty nice especially in the winter get back from the day of skiing or snowshoeing or just hard work and be able to light up a little fire and it adds that something special that makes you feel like tiny house living is a luxury rather than something that you're giving something up for is there anything you wish you would have done differently with this build? there are some small things just in the ways we reconfigured some of the drawers so I think we've changed some ideas about that we've learned some lessons about how to run infrastructure in most optimal ways especially if we're not building the whole unit for someone or if we're providing a shell which is something that we do how to make sure that it can work really well for electrical and plumbing trades part of that is the tiny configuration and part of that is it is using a panelized construction system like we do overall I think we're pretty happy you know we've got other floor plans that we're working on that are different but this one has a lot of versatility in it for us. what do you see the future of this do you see this is something that is going to be progressing for for many years to come or do you see this as something where it's going to be a niche small market it's always been there but now there's starting to become more aligned with the thought process of the tiny home living. yeah well you know I think that there are components of it that are probably nichey but I think the the idea of smaller sort of smarter energy efficient spaces a little more minimal especially for people who realize that they don't need much but they place a high value maybe resources that are shared in a community or open space or wilderness I think it's going to continue to branch out so I see it as we work through zoning issues I see it having a pretty large impact on cities where we see prices escalating out of control and a need for higher densities but in different form factors and I see it as a way to add to a sort of healthy housing ecosystem overall as we move forward so I think there's a place for it and as we see you know we're doing a panelized system that allows for sort of rapid assembly and there are other people out there who are not just building small but also innovating in the housing construction area and so to see companies coming up like that is exciting and I think it does point to the future. 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