Little House on the HWY: Skoolie Feature Friday
Today’s Feature Friday – Little House on the HWY! What is skoolie life all about, anyway? In our minds, we chose skoolie life to break away from the societal expectations of success and the “right” way to live. For us, we appreciate the essence of skoolie life – freedom from debt, freedom to travel whenever we please, and freedom from being anchored down. Basically, we love the idea that home is wherever we decide to park Oliver for the day, week, or month. Sometimes, however, it can be easy to get caught up in the day to day minutia of life. Most of us aren’t blessed with an endless bank…
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…
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…