Operation Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Follow our progress on renovating our 1999 International School Bus into our Tiny House that will take us around the United States to find our next homestead location! Maybe you can pick up some tips along the way too:)
Yes, the long awaited part 2 as to how in the heck we installed the storage boxes under the bus. Thanks to a good friend's knowledge (Logan, thanks man!), he allowed us to pick his brain and helped us develop some good braces to hold the boxes to the chassis of the bus, without having … Continue reading Stage 21 Part 2: Installing External Storage Boxes
Finally!! I finally got time to clean AND shoot a video of our finished Tiny House Skoolie, Chitty Bang:) We have been living Tiny for 4 months now and are still learning a lot. Adjusting to the space, everyone's own space needs, schedules, working with each other to move about, and getting in new habits … Continue reading Chitty Bang Skoolie Video Tour: Interior
Here we are...still contemplating those damn wainscotting walls...but the great thing about a project like this is that we had so much to do, we could float onto other projects while we contemplated others. Sometimes it is best ot just clear your brain and move onto something else and then....the idea will come to you:) … Continue reading Stage 24: Personalizing Walls and Adding Braces
Stage 23: Ceiling Material, Some Prep, and Completion
So if you couldn’t tell by the title, we messed this step up. Not really messed it up, but just did the work and realized it was not going to work in the long game. We thought covering the walls was next. We bought some wainscotting panels and cut and.. Then we hung it up … Continue reading Stage 22: What We Thought Was Next- Hanging Walls
Living Tiny means there is no room for hoarding. Even after selling a majority of our stuff and moving in with a room mate (meaning we have what we need), it still seems like we needed some extra places to store things like camping gear, tools, books, out of season clothes, etc. since we will … Continue reading Stage 21: Installing External Storage Boxes Part 1
We ended up getting a big nasty crack in the windshield. I think it was due to the rubber around the windshield being stuck behind in the glass in some places causing pressure points in the glass. Either way, our friend was friends with a glass guy, Lucky Us! Thanks Jim! So he came out … Continue reading Stage 20: New Windshield & RV Ladder
After the insulation job was done, we moved onto laying the plywood down! More construction and building up! Again to save on head room we went with 3/4" plywood..or possibly a little thinner than that. We used wood screws, finally, to screw the pieces into the wood furring strips. The hardest part was cutting around … Continue reading Stage 19: Floor Prep 2- Laying PLywood
The moment had finally arrived! We were about to spray foam the bus. That meant that the electrical for the bus was done, the metal prep work was done, and the furring strips were laid. I can not begin to explain how excited I was that Chitty bang was no longer looking like an old … Continue reading Stage 18: Spray Foam Insulation
After moving to West Texas and all of the dirty bus electrical we cleaned out, it was time we cleaned Chitty Bang again. We were also ready to start building!! What...what is that I said? YES! No more Demo! We are constructing things now! Well almost.....first things first:) First, the girls and I cleaned...again.. Next, … Continue reading Stage 17: Flooring Prep 1
