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Outline Interior Renovation for Heating and Kitchen

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BUILDING an OFF GRID SURVIVAL HOUSE to pay for itself.

What happens here

The presenter walks through the interior of the manufactured home, detailing plans for renovation. This includes installing a wood-burning fireplace in the living area to achieve heating independence from the grid, replacing existing windows with an 8-foot patio door for better views and access to the outdoors, and removing old 1970s kitchen cabinets to be replaced with salvaged ones from a previous remodel. He mentions the need for support beams to accommodate the new door opening.

Goal: Plan for independent heating and modernizing the living and kitchen spaces.

Tools and materials

  • 8-foot patio door Unspecified — Replacing existing windows for more light and access
  • Salvaged kitchen cabinets Unspecified — Replacing old cabinets for an updated look
  • Support beams Unspecified — Structural reinforcement for new door openings
  • Wood-burning fireplace Unspecified — Primary heat source for the living area

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structurally very strong but they do have a kind of a look to them and what we're going to do with this modular home is we're going to completely change the way this looks there is a method to my madness now hear me out and let me know what you think of this i want to create this as my shelter so if the world goes south i've got my off the grid screw the system place that i can go and be safe but if the world doesn't go south i want to be able to rent out shangri-la down below me and i want to be able to rent this out and have people come in and lose the stigma of oh i'm renting a modular home and i apologize if i've offended any of you guys by saying stigma about a modular home but it is what it is so let's just take a quick peek and then i'll walk you through some of the details of what i want to do and the method to my madness with this we're going to put in a wood burning fireplace i don't want to be dependent on the grid for my heat i don't want to be dependent on electricity to power my furnace i don't want to be dependent on propane to heat this house and currently this entire property is dependent on somebody else supplying me the fuel to heat it now my house down below my main cabin i could not install a wood burning fireplace and make it make sense so i built that structure as the main property that i'll personally live in hoping nothing ever happens but i can also rent it out when i'm not there and get you know recoup my funds recoup my losses or my investment not losses my investment into the property but up here wood burning fireplace goes in this corner i'm gonna put a mantel in place i'm going to store my wood there i've got a covered deck right out here i'm going to be storing wood in the winter time i can completely use this entire zone to store my wood and keep it close at hand so um as we walk in walk in here let's just show you around the property what we've got going on just a standard bathroom nothing big uh this entire property has been winterized here's a back bedroom now what i'm going to be doing with this is converting this over to the bunk house and we're going to call it probably the bunk house i don't know what we're going to call this the stoney bunk house because i'm going to be using a lot of stone and i'm going to be using a lot of it from my own house where i took it off from a different structure i'm gonna take this closet out and i'm gonna put a window in here and i can use this as my office at that point but i'm also…

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