- My name's Brian.
- And I am Lauren.
- [Both] And we are your neighbors from Petersburg.
(upbeat music) - I grew up in this area.
I have family from this area and there was a part of me that just surely wanted to get away.
I ended up in Lancaster County.
I started my company in 2007 as we had kids as the business grew and it became a lot of trying to keep up.
As I came back here after 10, 15 years, there was just a draw that was kind of pulling at me.
- I knew his dream was to have a little cabin in the woods.
So when we purchased this cabin, it just felt, it felt right.
I told him, I said, "Hey, let's sell your business, let's sell the house and let's move to the cabin."
And I knew one of the things that was causing Brian the stress was his roofing business.
So I really didn't want him to get back into that.
And I had followed the tiny house movement for a while and fell in love with it.
And we were considering about putting a tiny house here just for Airbnb and actually purchasing one from Lancaster.
And Brian goes, "Well, why should we purchase one when I can actually make one, build one?"
- So I had these big white pine trees and it was just something clicked with me and I just said, "This is the way to build something."
So bought a sawmill and I think we were just gonna build one and then it became two and then four.
And now we have four more trailers waiting to be constructed.
(inspiring music) I have Amish roots.
I worked with Amish people in Lancaster County.
And sometimes I think that, like you get back to your roots.
Like it's, I'm not gonna get emotional.
(Lauren laughing) So my last name, I was at a family reunion and they say that Spiker stemmed from a small hut.
These guys, the first Spikers over in Switzerland built these small huts.
And when I found that out, I'm like, "Man, I feel like I'm doing exactly what I am supposed to do."
(gentle music) Our dream is to potentially have a community someday and to be able to custom build for people to help them follow their dreams, too.
- [Lauren] We're living our tiny house dream.
(gentle music)