How an Interior Designer Maximized Every Square Inch in a Tiny Beach Trailer | Architectural Digest

[pleasant intro music] [Jason] You only have to take a couple steps from waking up in the morning to getting coffee to sitting down. That's cozy to me. I think wood does that.

Wood makes a space feel lived in and that was a goal. It's like it's one organism. Rather than being divided rooms with different finishes and function, you're in one whole being not to get too deep.

Lowers your heart rate when you walk in. Every detail in it feels thought through. I grew up in Florida on boats. This is very influenced by boat cabins. I'm Alana.

I am the interior designer. I am Jason and I am the former owner of this trailer. We used to come here for like a beer at the end of the day and there'd be another neighbor

and like their kid. This looks like a small space but because of who you and Amy are as people, it was always comfortable and there was always people hanging out and like having a good time.

Paradise Cove, this neighborhood, everything is on top of you. I think the coolest part about it is the massive range of people that are here. You know every neighbor. People quite literally walk in your door all the time.

Your home is not just yours, it's your community's. And I think it's nice 'cause like the whole neighborhood centered around the beach. You see everybody on a Saturday and all the kids play together.

It's very unique to the times. [pleasant music] I started in hospitality. How do you make the most luxurious, comfortable, functional, user-friendly, you know, aspect out of every single square inch of the hotel room?

So that's kind of always been the most important thing to me is you know, aesthetic will come but function's always first. We met through a mutual friend of my husband. I met Jeff at a bar watching a football game

or something, which is basically our entire friendship. Our friendship grew when we went on your first date with your now wife together. It's a double date. - Second date.

Second date. I realized that I typically walk into these spaces and I have a vision and then to translate it onto like an actual floor plan and elevations and all these things like that disconnect for me is difficult and I

was like, "Damn, I don't know how to do this." The previous layout had the washer dryer in the middle of the space and everything kind of circulated around it, so we figured pull it out of there and actually put it in the bedroom.

I would not have thought of that. And she set like parameters I think is the best way to put it. He walked in the first time we were talking about it, your description was like, I just, what if we

did everything in wood? I would just like show up to her office. Like I'd like call her 15 minutes before and be like hey- 15? - If that.

We just had fun with it and I think like that comes through as well. I lived in another place in this neighborhood and someone I knew was living here, and they were moving into another trailer.

At the time I was single with my dog and I was like I don't want a lot of space because it's such a small footprint, like a small budget could have made it exactly what I wanted it to be.