Happen Films: The Handmade House Truck (2016)

  • Adventure, Home, Design, Tiny living, Tiny House
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  • 12m

We take a tour of Adam and Sian’s beautiful off-grid tiny house truck, which was built using mostly reclaimed materials on the back of a 1969 Bedford. The house truck is full of light and space, with an open-plan kitchen, living and bedroom area and a fancy shower set-up on the back porch.

The couple describe the building process and the events that brought them to leaving a conventional home and city life to take up this much simpler way of living that they find more satisfying.

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