• 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…

  • Today we're featuring the Wander Jah Buslife conversion - a bus conversion with a stylish kitchen and windows as far as the eye can see. | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Feature Friday

    Wander Jah Buslife: Skoolie Feature Friday

    Today’s Feature Friday is Wander Jah Buslife – an Australian-based bus conversion with serious design style. We are actually featuring one bus conversion on two accounts today! The @wander_jah_buslife and @runningwld_mama accounts both feature the adventures of Lloyd the skoolie and his entourage – Jed and Marthe and their children, Ellida and Embla. The accounts are worth a follow not just for the gorgeous conversion but for the seriously amazing scenery they encounter as they travel down under. So what’s so amazing about this bus conversion? A lot. We actually had a hard time narrowing down our favorite features on this bus because there were so many. So without further…

  • We get a lot of questions about our little skoolie kitchen! From our conrete countertops to the rose gold appliances, here are the answers! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
    Bus Build

    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…