• After one year of living in our bus, we're releasing an updated skoolie floor plan and video bus tour including all the changes and renovations we've made! | sincewewokeup.com | Since We Woke Up
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    Skoolie Floor Plan and Bus Tour: One Year Later

    One of the most fun parts of the school bus conversion process is choosing your skoolie floor plan. Even with the most careful planning and foresight, however, you might find after living in your school bus conversion for a while that changes are in order. We most certainly had ours, and the bus has gone through several renovations since our initial skoolie floor plan was drawn. (You can see our original skoolie layout post here!) As a matter of fact, after a year of living in the bus, there are parts that look completely different from our original skoolie build. We decided an updated skoolie floor plan and bus tour…

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    Bus Goblin: Skoolie Feature Friday

    Today’s Feature Friday – the Bus Goblin! Better known as Holly, this red-haired artist also known as the bus goblin is one of my (Tawny’s) personal favorite accounts to follow. Why? She’s fun, creative, and has an open, adventurous, can-do attitude. I’m also a huge fan of her art, which she makes out of her bus, Wander, under the name Pine Barren Press. Her skoolie is as unique and creative as she is, and as you’d expect, is self-designed and built. Let’s dive into our personal favorite parts of this tiny home on wheels! THE REAL FACTOR Converted buses come in all shapes, sizes, stages of transformation, and executions. Some…

  • Today we're featuring the Little Gus the Bus skoolie - a short bus conversion in Canada that's cozy and warm. | Since We Woke Up | wsincewewokeup.com
    Feature Friday

    Little Gus the Bus: Skoolie Feature Friday

    Today’s Feature Friday is Little Gus the Bus, a short bus conversion with tons of personality. Little Gus is home to Ben and Marie, who hail from Canada and France, respectively, and now live on a farm property in Canada in their skoolie conversion. Their bus might be smaller, but it packs a ton of thoughtful design and decor features. Besides that, we have a special affinity for this particular conversion because it takes grit to stick out a snowy winter in a bus. Getting up to restock a tiny wood stove, working to keep pipes from freezing, trying to insulate an area full of windows – let’s just say…