John! These are GREAT ideas!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing them! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

We always used to have a piece of styrofoam in place of a toilet seat over the outhouse hole & then switch it out as per necessary (nice & warm on the butt during cold weather).

I checked out the Smiling Wood Yurt website- very cool. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching, @snowdrop1590. : )

You’re so welcome, James John. We appreciate your comment. 😊

Thanks so much for watching Emily. It took us some time to figure out how to use the space and live peacefully together in it. 😃😃🐾

I didn’t even know you knew my mom Frankie-Lou. I take your comment about her as a compliment for sure. If only I had her energy.... haha. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for coming on the tour Thu-Hien Tran. You know a lot about our lifestyle then! 🔥

You are very lucky!

You are so welcome, Gwen!

Thanks Chrystal. We love them too. Thanks for watching. 🐾🤗🤗

Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much Sallo. It’s great you could come to the yurt... finally. No guest room, but we do have tea. 😉

We would love to see one in Mongolia one day! Thanks for watching. 🐕❤️

Hello Myagmarsuren Jambal. We would love to go to Mongolia one day. Hopefully not everyone will move to the city so we can see some traditional Mongolian yurts. 🙂

Looks like a coffin! LOL “he used to build those too”... you two!

Haha. He did! Hi Derek. Thanks so much for watching. And you were here when we started and long after. ! Hugs from your old stomping grounds. 🤗🤗🐾🐾

Yay! So happy you liked it Brayden. 🐾🐾

Hi Max, thanks for watching again! We have a tiny office in downtown Whitehorse where we can do our office work as well. We used to spend more time there, but we do more office work here now that we have a cell connection!

Thank you Adam. Practical is one of our favourite words! 😃😃 🐶

Oh my Small Home friend, Lulu. These are some very good questions!!!!!! 1. Tomohiro didn't mind spitting in the kitchen sink. I have an aversion to spitting and washing dishes in one sink. I would only do it on really cold days and on warmer days I would brush my teeth outside in the bush. I'm much happier with 2 sinks. : ) 2. Ahhh the joy of one room!!!!!!!!!!!! This is very difficult. When we are exhausted, we growl, "turn off the lights so I can sleep!!!" : ) Other times when we are not so grumpy, we compromise. We often take turns asking..."How many more minutes before I can turn off the lights?" When Tomohiro needs to go aurora hunting and I need to get up early to substitute teach, he tries to sneak in quietly at around 3:30 am so he doesn't wake me. Sometimes it works. ; )

Thanks Sanj. You putting up a yurt for Brayden in your backyard?? 😃

Well if I get a bigger backyard..

ありがとう😊あれから外側は結構変わったよね。ハシゴのショット、いい感じでしょ！？

@@tntnaturecon いい感じ！！ あれは360°のカメラかな？360°カメラは気になってるけど酔いそうなので悩み中。1番はやはりドローンが欲しい✨

Thanks!

She sure does!

Blessings back, Julie.

Hi Kelsey, thanks a lot for watching! Mold is not a big issue here as we have a dry climate. All we have to do is to wipe around the edge of the window in spring when frost between windows and insulations thaws.

Hello New Hampshire yurt dwellers. In the past we’ve hoped for snow for that extra insulation during the cold months. This has been a record high snowfall year! We’ve never had to consider a snow load kit. Typically the snow that falls is so light and fluffy, it just slides off and hugs us. This has been a very different year. We may have to consider a snow load kit in the future. Thanks so much for watching. 🤗🤗

You’re welcome Carl Dewitz. Be sure to get an all season yurt with the extra insulation. And we really recommend you have thick insulation under your floor. The coldest month for us is November because there is not enough snow to insulate outside around the bottom of the yurt. Just a few reminders. Happy yurt living. 🙂

Hello there. Your comments made us smile. We share electricity with our neighbour and have a long extension cord connected to her house. . As for our fridge, we need that to keep our food at a stable temperature. If we kept our food outside in the winter, it would freeze instantly, and if we kept it inside, it would spoil. We would love to be completely off grid, maybe one day....We know some people who have a fridge in their insulated floor, which is impressive! Thanks for watching! 😄😄🐾🐾

Thanks for the kind comment, Jeffrey Allen. It’s always nice to hear from someone who has lived a similar experience.

Hi Rachel. We have a Chinook Blaze King. It’s a good size for our yurt. We purchased the metal water box that sits on top at a antique shop. It was actually made for a little wood stove. We are not sure how it was actually used. Somehow a smaller pipe fit right in the middle of the box. Thanks for watching.

見てくれてありがとう。住んでいる人の視点で作ってみました！同じ題材でも違った視点で面白いですね:-)

Hello James. Thanks for writing and good luck learning more about this lifestyle. Possibly you too will be a yurt dweller in the US of A! 😃

Thanks for watching. There aren’t too many things we can do in the outhouse especially when it’s freezing outside. Haha. 🐶😃😃

Hello Pris Br. The insulation came with the 4 season yurt package. Not sure if you can buy it separately. Here is a link to their site. www.nomadshelter.com/pricing?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpbnG1oCe9gIVNz6tBh0weALWEAAYASAFEgIlNvD_BwE. Thanks for watching. 😀

@tNt Nature Connections really appreciated

Hi there. We live in Yukon, Canada. It’s right next door to Alaska. My husband is from Japan but others have asked if he is Inuit (Eskimo). Thanks for watching, Phillip. We have quite a few more videos like this on our channel and hope to create more in the future.

@@tntnaturecon thanks for your reply.👍

Yes, good plan. We tried putting in a high bed with space for an office underneath, but with such a small space, the whole “yurt feeling” was lost. You will definitely keep the feeling in a 30 footer. Enjoy yurt life! Thanks for watching. 🙂

Hello Sunjidmaa Tsogtmagni in Australia. You’re welcome. We purchased our yurt from Homer Alaska from a company called Nomad shelter. We have the 4 season insulation. This description is from their website. It features Reflectix double foil-backed bubble wrap. This is lined on the interior side with a polyester mildew and fire resistant... ​ Nomad Shelter also offers a heavy four-season liner. Our four-season liner starts with the 3-season liner which is then upgraded with 1″ of polyester batting alongside the Reflectix and finished with an exterior layer of building wrap. Both the top cover and the walls include this extra insulation layer. We can even create custom insulation options for those in truly extreme climates who require even greater insulation. I’m not sure where it’s made. Please check out their website for more information. www.nomadshelter.com/ouryurts?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5JiZqqXC9gIVbh-tBh1BgATFEAAYASADEgKlZvD_BwE Thanks so much for coming on our tour. It’s snowing like crazy outside tonight. Enjoy your warmer weather. ☀️🤗🤗🐶

Sunjidmaa Tsogtmagnai, we would love to see a traditional yurt in Mongolia one day. We like living in our yurt a lot. Good luck with your project. : )

We don’t have many days of -30 and colder so for the most part, we are cozy. Thanks for watching Donald Hall.

Thanks for letting us know, Peter! We are a little upside down over here. 😅

Thanks for watching tkarlman. Plus 20 degrees Celsius indoors is quite warm for us Northerners. We do keep some of our boots in the patio space, but the ones we need to use regularly are indoors or else they feel like we are wearing blocks of ice. It is only 5 degrees Celsius warmer in the patio than outside. Take care.

We don’t have a TV in the yurt but we do have a cable for our cell phone signal booster that we got from Amazon.ca! If you need the brand, I. Sun look it up :-)

Hi there Count It All Joy. I think my husband read cables instead of tables. We purchased those foldable tables about 9 years ago and I think we got them at Home Hardware. Thanks so much for watching! 🤗

Hello Donald Hall. 20° Celsius is equal to 68° Fahrenheit. Thanks for watching. 😀

Oh my gosh. Your comment made me laugh out loud! Thanks for watching. Enjoy your dry bed, Emma.

We have a heat powered wood stove fan. Maybe it’s not in the video. And yes, Tenshi loves her food indeed. Thanks for watching Mel!

Hello James. Thanks for your message. We purchased our yurt 10 years ago from a company in Homer Alaska called Nomad Shelter. Please check out their website. www.nomadshelter.com/ Tomohiro was lucky enough to get an insulated floor second hand and he doesn’t remember how much we paid for that or what they are to purchase new. Our yurt is also an all season package. If you don’t live in a cold climate, you won’t need the extra insulation and your costs will be less. Good luck!

Thanks! It is 20 feet in diameter :-)

I think it is Blaze King Chinook 20, a bit large for our yurt but it gives enough heat during the winter.

We didn’t add a shower yet, Sophia. When we do, we will probably post a video about the installation. Thanks so much for watching. 😀

Hello Burny Izland. We do use a chamber pot at night in the winter. Thanks for your comment.

Hello Burny Izland. We do use a chamber pot on winter nights. Thanks for your comment.

So our food doesn’t freeze but still stays cold. Thanks for watching.

Hello Marcel. We purchased our yurt from Nomad Shelter. Check out their pricing page www.nomadshelter.com/pricing. Our yurt is 20' and the cost for a yurt our size is $12,150. You will notice that your costs will increase when you add insulation, windows, doors.... When we purchased our yurt, we didn't have the option to purchase a stovepipe assembly package. We needed to pay for a custom made chimney here in Whitehorse, Yukon, and it was way more expensive than what Nomad Shelter now offers. You will also need to buy insulation for your floor. We were lucky to find a used yurt floor here at an antique shop...the guy who owns the shop used to sell Pacific Yurts and he had one. Good luck, Marcel.

Hello Me Me. We live in Yukon, Canada. We got a lot of ideas for the conversion and our video from this guy in Ontario, Canada. He breaks down all the costs. Check out Joel’s video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8inrNODuti2nYU.html. Thanks for watching.

Oh dear Me Me. Are you asking about our yurt or our trailer? I just noticed that you watched our tour of the yurt video. If that’s the case, sorry, that must have been confusing. When we purchased our yurt about 9 years ago, I think it was around $13,000 US. We were lucky to find a second hand floor and we built on a deck. So, you would need to consider those costs as well. Upkeep for us is not expensive. We are in the forest and are protected by trees and sun damage. You can check out their site for more information at www.nomadshelter.com/ouryurts

Thanks for the comment. We thought about putting the washroom inside first but the one I used at my work had one inside and it always stank like a bathroom, so we are very happy that we didn’t in our case. As for shower, there is no way to build a pipe system that would not freeze in minus 30-40c in the dead of the winter. ( that is what there are so many “dry cabins” in Yukon and Alaska.) Because we have the harsh winter, we have to build our life around it, bearing the inconvenience for the rest of the year. It is just the way it is up here and we accept it. If we really need the convenience, we might as well move into a normal house :-)

We do not have a conventional shower but we have a sauna and outdoor shower attached to the sauna which we use only in the summer.

It’s hard to keep out any noise. The hooting owls in the spring and fall keep us awake most of the night. Thanks so much for watching fellow yurt friends. 😃😃🐶

@@tntnaturecon thanks for sharing. Our owls, ravens, and squirrels give us concert as well. My first yurt as a bachelor was a 20’er. With 2 people and a dog; You guys must be a little cramped. I’d imagine that sun room helps a lot.

Yep, the sunroom helps a lot. An attached bedroom is a great idea! Enjoy all of your additional space, Kenairockband.

@@tntnaturecon thanks; you enjoy the awesome weather. Fingers crossed for northern lights!

If you mean the counter I pull out of the kitchen cabinet, that is extra counter space. The carpenter needed to make that piece quite thin so it could slide in and out of the cabinet. I hope that makes sense, Jesse.

Hello Zeljkamarson. Thankfully we live in a safe area. I think a thief could use a saw or axe to get in, but let’s not give them any ideas. 😉 Thanks for watching.

@@tntnaturecon ❤️

You’re right. The lighter it gets in here with the daylight returning, the more we can see how much stuff we have in here. Thanks for watching.