After cutting and fitting the butcher block counters, we were ready to finish them. We have never had butcher block countertops in our home before, so I had been researching and researching the best ways to do the finish work. The most concerning part for me was having them around
Butcher Block Countertops: Part 1
The kitchen is the heart of the home...and also the heart of the bus. The kitchen is inches from the family room and about four feet from the kids’ room. It will function as a food prep area, laundry room, art table, work desk, school desk, and who knows
Building a Vanity Cabinet
Project management has been one of the most mentally difficult parts of building this bus. Namely, in what order do we do different parts of the build? In real life, it’s not very concise. We cannot realistically do all of any one major project at once. It has often
Splendide 2100 XC Install and Test Drive (including power & water usage)
When we first started researching the idea of becoming full-time RVers, one of the lifestyle questions we had was, “What about laundry?” As we began to read more about the day to day life of a fulltime RVer, we learned the pros and cons of the laundry options.
Option 1:
The Beastly Front Cabinets
We had been absolutely dreading this project. I kind of just wanted to go on vacation and pray it was magically done when we returned. Unfortunately, we have no magic bus building elves. So, we had to just suck it up and do it - build the cabinets in the
Securing the Refrigerator in the Bus
Long ago, we decided that we wanted a residential refrigerator in the bus. We have enough battery storage to maintain the 120V needs of a refrigerator when boondocking, especially because newer residential refrigerators are very energy efficient. Our biggest limitation when deciding on a refrigerator was the height of the
Building the Tech Cabinet
The day had finally arrived!!! We were somewhat giddy to start this project - the Tech Cabinet. For months and months, all of our electronic gear has been sitting on the floor of the bus in a box just waiting to have a home. When we wired everything in, we
Building the Broom Closet & Pantry
Building this bus into an RV has been a long project...a very long project. The one good thing about that is that there has been plenty of time to soak up as much knowledge from other RVers and renovators as possible. One of the common issues we have noticed
The Wardrobe - Part 4: Device Charging Station
The project for this week may very well turn out to be my favorite functional part of the bus! With six people living, working, and homeschooling full-time in the bus, we knew we needed to make a space for all the devices. Laptops, iPad, tablets, a few phones, not to
The Wardrobe - Part 3: Building Drawers with Under-mount Slides
After last week’s slight fiasco with painting the face frames, we were so thankful to move onto building again. We are becoming a bit more confident with some basic woodworking skills, so we're excited to build the drawers for the wardrobe.
We planned six large drawers for the bottom
The Wardrobe - Part 2: Misadventures in Painting
Well...we don’t have too much good to share this week. Mostly a bunch of mistakes that we call “lessons learned”. We try to research and research and plan and plan, but sometimes we just screw it up.
The project for the week was to build face frames for
The Wardrobe: Part 1 - The Carcass
Finally...after all of this time...the day came to actually start building some real structure into this bus. I know we already have the pocket doors in, but starting the closet feels much more momentous. Also, I’ve decided not to call it the closet. I want to call