Bus Build
Articles that include details of our bus build. You'll find how we built our skoolie conversion, including skoolie solar, skoolie plumbing, and other bus conversion tips and tricks we learned on the way!
Skoolie Kitchen Construction
Choosing a layout is the most exciting and stressful time of a skoolie bus build – and the most important part, for many, is their skoolie kitchen. When we were choosing our overall layout for the bus, we had one main goal: not to leave the center aisle layout. Because of this, when it came to the kitchen, we chose an L-shape rather than leaving everything along the sides. The idea of an eating bar built into the cupboard instead of a foldup table was born, and we built the design around these two criteria. You can see the overall layout in our video tour, but here is a breakdown…
Creating Your Own Apothecary
For quite a long time, we had an open shelf in our kitchen that didn’t really hold anything – partly because we didn’t have anything to put there, and partly because whatever was up there was required to come down while the bus was moving or face an imminent demise on the first corner we turned. Thanks to a myriad of health issues and growing concerns about the products we used in our little home on wheels, I’ve been moving toward more DIY home and body care products for a while now. It recently occurred to me as I was blending a new batch of shampoo that the process of…
How We Installed Faux Wall Panels on Our Skoolie’s Front Windows
Today we’re doing a tutorial on a question we get asked a lot – how did you make faux wall panels over your front windows? Insulating a bus is a must if you want to comfortably live in it. However, every window you leave is a spot heat can enter or leave. Especially those big front windows all skoolies have! In order to combat the heat beating in and baking us in summer or losing all elements of it in the winter, we designed a set of faux wall panels that easily slide in and out. If we’re parked for an extended period of time, we simply leave them in…
