If you are one of those people who see these two names and immediately know who I am referring to then Congrats! You are definitely a tiny house nerd like us 😃 If not, then – don’t worry! – you are still allowed to read this post haha. For those who don’t watch as much online Tiny House content, Bryce Langston is a YouTuber who has gained a sizeable following with a channel he created called Living Big In A Tiny House. Since about 2015, his life partner and now camerawoman extraordinaire is Rasa Pescud and the two of them recently paid us a visit.

We were lucky enough to catch their eye with our unique semi-trailer based tiny house design. In late October they were coming to South Australia anyway (for Adelaide’s first tiny house expo) and hoped to film some content for their show. I haven’t mentioned this until now as I wanted to make the big surprise reveal on this page when the show was edited and ready for launch…and now here we are! The show link is embedded at the end of this page, but if you’re interested in our impressions and details of the experience then read on…

Having watched the show for many years but not recently, it came as a surprise to see that some of their top-rated videos had view counts of 15, 25 and even 50 million! Heidi and I were pleasantly surprised that we had made the cut but also started to get those feelings of inferiority creeping in. Suddenly we didn’t feel like the exterior of our place was up to scratch compared to all the cute “house-y” looking places that are typically featured on the show. Even though it has been a financial barrier to get our deck put up already, we suddenly felt the urge to try to figure out how we could best showcase our place for an audience of potentially millions. In the end, we realised that stressing ourselves was unnecessary and that the setting of our place, the work we’d done on the interior and even the semi-trailer look of the place were what made it unique enough. I guess time will tell if people feel the same once they watch the episode!

What did happen with precision timing however was that 2 weeks prior to filming, a leak developed in the kitchen skylight, something that have never been an issue before (in THIS skylight. You can experience the full trials and tribulations of the saga of the other skylight in the original construction video series). The original troublesome skylight eventually got properly fibreglassed but since this kitchen one had never been an issue, I had been lazy and left it. So I needed to drop everything and get it done. On top of that, the roof looked patchy from different paints over different times, so I would also need to repaint the entire thing as I knew Bryce would be doing his aerial drone shots. Skip to the end and the job was done with 2 days to spare. It still holds rainwater like a little lake up there, but that’s tomorrow’s problem 😅

The house got its best clean in a year, Heidi put on her room-dressing hat and made the place look as close to a showroom as possible and then bam, Bryce and Rasa were suddenly in our lounge room. It wasn’t as trippy as I thought it’d be to see them on their channel one minute and in our space the next, but I could chalk some of that up to the fact that they are a very unintimidating 2-person team and of course because they are very friendly and approachable. For me it helped to have done a lot of video production to know the mechanics of what to expect and not be put off by speaking to the camera. Heidi got a bit tongue-tied due to not having that kind of experience but did very well all things considered. She just needed to be reminded that editing will do wonders with helping achieve a tight, coherent video and so hopefully that comes across in the final video as she was concerned afterwards about that.

As far as the actual experience, it was a long 12-hour day on the first of the 2 days that they were here but it was broken up by having Heidi, Bryce and I involved at different times while Rasa set up the shots she wanted. The take away for both Heidi and I was being able to spend a few quality hours just chatting with Bryce who is well-read and interesting plus a good listener. We feel like we connected well with each other over the weekend, went out to breakfast together and then subsequently caught up with them the following weekend at the Expo. Knowing just how many people they connect with in a given week, it was nice to be able to have that focused time and establish a good relationship.

Have a watch of the video they produced and see what you think!