• We installed faux wall panels over our skoolie's front windows that slide in and out and insulate our windows. Here's how we designed them! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Bus Build

    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…

  • Today we're featuring the Happy Homebodies skoolie - a bus conversion with a roof raise, open floor plan and serious style! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Feature Friday

    Skoolie Feature Friday: Happy Homebodies

    Welcome to the first edition of Feature Friday – featuring the Happy Homebodies skoolie! When we first started dreaming about converting Oliver into the tiny home of our dreams, like most people starting a project, we flocked to Instagram and Pinterest for inspiration. We spent hours poring over tiny homes, skoolies, vans, and renovated RVs, dissecting what we liked and didn’t like about each one. After months of dreaming, planning, drawing, and redrawing sketches, we came up with the perfect layout. As these things often go, our designs and plans changed here and there during the actual build. We’ve also done a fair amount of renovating after actually spending time…

  • Check out our most recent skoolie tour, shot while we are parked for the holidays in snowy Montana, and see Oliver decked out for Christmas! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Bus Life

    Skoolie Tour: Christmas Edition

    Welcome to our most recent skoolie tour for Van Life is Awesome! We were asked to do a tour and decided it was the perfect time to showcase what the bus looks like when it’s stationary. We are currently parked in Montana for the holidays with our family, totally winterized for our time here. That means covered in snow, plastic over the windows, plugged in, and hunkered down for the single-digit temps we’ve been hitting at night. It also means Oliver is decorated for Christmas! You can find links to everything featured in our bus through our Amazon Shopping Lists. If you’d like to see our floor plan after watching,…