What it's like to live on a tiny, 160-square-foot houseboat

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Courtesy of Kerry Elwood

Would you be able live in this tiny houseboat?

Tiny homes are all the rage these days, but one man decided to take it to the next level: the sea.

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Kerry Elwood, an airbrush artist from Salem, Oregon, build his own tiny houseboat. The 160-square-foot boat is so small, but so practical and efficient, that it left visitors to the annual Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington - where it debuted - dumbfounded.

But Elwood knew what he was doing, designing and handcrafting every last detail according to experience, as he has spent the last three years living on the WaterWoody, traveling through the Northwest waterways and perfecting it bit by bit.

We talked to Elwood about what it's like to build such an efficiently small space.