• Today we're featuring the Sweet Sweet Buslife skoolie - a bus conversion with serious style and quite the entourage - 2 adults, 5 kids, 2 dogs, and a cat! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Feature Friday

    Sweet Sweet Buslife: Skoolie Feature Friday

    Today’s Feature Friday – Sweet Sweet Buslife! Today we’re focusing on a bus conversion that has a neutral scheme with some pretty unique touches. Plus, this bus has quite an entourage. Mix one beautifully converted skoolie with two adults, five kiddos, two dogs, and a cat, and you have the crew of the @sweetsweetbuslife! What makes the Sweet Sweet Buslife skoolie so amazing? Let’s dive in. A BATHROOM WITH A VIEW TO THE HEAVENS Their bathroom is already an adorable little thing, but the shower on this bus is a showstopper. They replaced their ceiling with a skylight, allowing natural light to filter down into an otherwise darker, closed-off area.…

  • Curious about the AFG Fireball? Check out our review about this automatic fire extinguisher from Quora Distribution, complete with demonstration video! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Bus Life

    The AFG Fireball from Quora Distribution: A Review

    Today we’re reviewing the AFG Fireball by Quora Distribution, a fire extinguishing system that we firmly believe every home should have. Now full disclosure, we were sent the Fireballs we tested for free. However, after learning about their product, we actually reached out to Quora Distribution – not the other way around. Their response was to schedule time with us to learn about us, our needs, and our interests. Then, they offered to send us their product to try out for ourselves. And we did. After hours of research and hearing others’ stories and testing the products for ourselves, I will give the punchline away early – your home NEEDS…

  • 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
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    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…