What It’s Really Like Living in a Tiny Home, from an Expert Whos Done It [Video]

Precious Price didn’t intend to build her own tiny house shortly after she purchased a three-bedroom home in October 2019. 

However, when the pandemic hit, the Atlanta realtor and entrepreneur tells PEOPLE she found herself looking out the window and thinking about what she could do with the property’s “huge” backyard.

She had the idea to live in a tiny home in her yard while renting the larger house for extra income to pay her mortgage.

By June 2020, she was drafting floor plans and working with the city to get the proper permits to build the second structure. Later that year, she began converting a 12-by-24-foot shed into an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), a term for a small secondary home, and the build was finished in March 2021.

While the total price tag of her home was $35,000, Price says the current cost of having a tiny home built …