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Wait 'til you see inside! - by Rebecca Lowrey Boyd
  • 01 Aug 2018

Living within a small footprint isn’t for everyone, but one family has transformed a trailer, taking tiny style to a new level.

The renovated Keystone Fuzion 416 is home to Autumn Bailey (also known as Asphalt Gypsy on Instagram), her husband and two sons.

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Our tiny space and some words are over on @dominomag today! My first phone interview ever and thank the eight pound six ounce newborn baby jesus she didn't include all my awkward half sentences and out of breath nervousness, I've come to realize I'm a lot more Rico Suave via email 😌 Link in my bio ✨
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So far this year we're planning for 4 months of living off grid. Mostly just because everywhere we want to stay is full, but also that's over 4 grand that we'll be saving by not staying close to Rusty's job.. Here's a not so fun fact of our last 2.5 years of living 'tiny': we've spent around 20 thousand dollars on rv parks. That would be a nice chunk of money that we could be spending on some land, or even pay off a good chunk of our debt, so it kinda irritates me even thinking about it. But I guess I'm sharing because a lot of people have a perception we live cheaper in a trailer. And it totally can be for some! But that's not our experience, so Heres another perspective. We started traveling for one reason: so Rusty and I could raise our children together, while Rusty is traveling the US for his work. We DIDNT and DONT do this to save money or get rid of debt. staying together as a family is no. 1 and If we happen to eliminate some debt or save money that's great! I like this lifestyle because it's not one-size-fits all, my perspective is always stretched and changing from all the people we meet and engage with from all the walks of life who do this too. I like hearing how people in their twenties have payed off their debts and now just live their lives. I like hearing from the retirees who worked their whole life and now travel the country full time in their motor home. I like meeting people who do what we do, and just live in a trailer for convenience. Hard to believe I know but we're not all millennials that quit our day jobs and Instagram for a living 😉
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I got all of our vintage rugs washed last week so they are lookin mighty fine these days. One of the guys I talked to fell in love with this one in particular. He told me that these hand knotted rugs are sometimes made on the floors of the artisans home, and while creating the piece they sit on the loom, sometimes creating the warping (imperfections) on the ends of the rug. This one has warping on either side, and it ripples once it's laid out on the floor. The 'imperfections' are so beautiful to me, I love that I can look at this piece and see the story of how it was made ✨I could dive so deep into Oriental rug history y'all it's crazy how much there is to learn and how many dif kinds are out there! If anyone feels like giving me a mill so I can buy vintage rugs to my hearts content that'd be great K thx! FUNFACT: The most expensive rug sold at auction was sold for 34 million dollars. Yep 😅 #trailerliving

Featuring a distinct boho style, the tiny home includes a parent’s retreat, kitchen, bathroom and children’s bedroom.

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Does anyone else have a serious spring cleaning bug? Feeling the need to focus on ridding our trailer of unnecessary things that create so much clutter in our space. I feel like it's healthy to step back every so often and reevaluate because things tend to stack up pretty darn fast in 300 sq feet 😅 But also the hoarder in me finds myself slowing down when i go by garage sales #canthelpit 🙈 also on a sorta related note, why can't I get the spring cleaning bug in the winter when I don't start sweating profusely after only 2 minutes picking things up?? Everytime I get too hot and find myself looking like Will Ferrell in Anchorman 'it's so damn hot, milk was a bad choice'
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#detailsinthecamper * I'm a 'big picture first' kinda gal, I fall in love with a space as a whole before I start noticing little things here and there that really bring the whole thing together. Renovating our trailer really pushed me out of my comfort zone and forced me to focus on the smaller scale of things, which actually made the whole thing a lot easier 🌱 I love this door my incredibly talented sister painted for us, It reminds me of our childhood, romping around Crystal Peak and mountains on mountains of mushrooms for our ridge dinner 🌱 I also added some crystals Rusty and I both acquired from our parents 🌱 greenery obv 🌱 my hand dyed indigo bath gauze 🌱 our High West wedding whiskey bottle 🌱 & the cutest little print from @tatjanas_world_ *** head to my story to see some other details I love about our small space*** today @steadystreamincashios and @honeysucklesweetlife are sharing details in their own homes too, don't miss it! ALSO go to #detailsinthecamper to see all the incredible posts this week!
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Silent sulking because this is our LAST week in Bend 😩 it's been one of those rare jobs where they are finishing earlier than expected and for the first time Rusty and I both want to stay. But on to the next, we'll be in Santa Rosa, CA come Monday! Back to the city and closer(ish) to home, and also back to not being able to find a place to park our fifth wheel 🙄 fingers crossed we can find an rv park that doesn't charge us an arm and a leg to be there 🤞 #whoamikidding

“I love our space as a whole,” writes Autumn on her Instagram account.

“It was the little things we added here and there that constantly make it feel like more of a sticks and bricks home instead of a trailer.”

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We've been quiet here lately.. between going back across the country in 4 days, trying to find an rv spot to park in for a month while we're here in Bend(impossible), going to a wedding in Grass Valley and putting the bed back up on the tracks and rearranging our space with our two emotionally unstable spawn all while trying to keep my shit together emotionally has been hectic to say the least.. and I have not managed to keep my emotional shit together. Not even for a single day. BUTTTT were 'squatting' (my mom calls it) but really dispersed camping near Bend and it happens to be one of the coolest places we've gotten to work, so we're soaking in the days with the garage door down, and taking things slow for my sake. Ever not realized you've desperately needed a change of pace, or literal location change until you happened upon it? It feels like magic ✨ also, if at the end of reading this you're thinking wow that bitch is a heated mess... well you're not wrong. #trailerlife

The attention to detail is evident throughout the carefully curated home, with hammered copper door knobs, an illustrated door and a plethora of indoor plants.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT * Something I love to do before hauls is organize/go through/throw out/donate. It makes setting up in a new place a whole lot easier. But we left NY in such a whirlwind, everything is jammed into drawers and cabinets and it's giving me a little anxiety thinking about setting up again. But mostly it made me realize that WE STILL HAVE TOO MUCH. I'm learning that this lifestyle can mean constantly checking and rechecking yourself and all you have, even if you haven't brought anything new into your home/or your life, but maybe realizing that you need even less than you already have, that you can let go even more and be happy ☀️ #trailerlife
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I wish I could just show you the level of excitement I'm at right now, because in a week we're putting our bed back up on the tracks! Imagine Brennan and Dale's bunk beds in step brothers. THERES SO MUCH EXTRA SPACE FOR ACTIVITIES. That's the level I'm at guys. Just picture it and giggle. #howwedwell
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HOME SWEET HAULER * Two weeks into dry camping up in OR and it's been a blast not being jam packed into a pricey RV park 🙄 our neighbors are the trees and no one minds when we run our gen ✨ At my dads growing up on the ridge, we didn't have electricity, only a generator, so save for the occasional VHS, to pump water or if we had enough gas to run our lights at night, we often went without power. Now, our toyhauler is nicer than any home I've ever lived in, so it's not like a big blast from the past, but it's a humbling reminder of how truly good we have it. We've worked our asses off to get where we are, we weren't handed this life, but we are lucky we get to choose how we want to live it.

“I fall in love with a space as a whole before I start noticing little things here and there that really bring the whole thing together,” Autumn says.

“Renovating our trailer really pushed me out of my comfort zone and forced me to focus on the smaller scale of things, which actually made the whole thing a lot easier.”

  

This article originally appeared on Better Homes and Gardens.

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Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is a former magazine editor and the founder of Wee Birdy, one of The Sunday Times’ Top 50 Blogs in the World. A design nerd and bird enthusiast, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.

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