- 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)