Shuttle Bus Conversion Tour: A Couple's Low-Tech DIY Tiny Home
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Charming maker couple, Carmen and Xaver, are converting a shuttle bus into their “haven home,” named Vinny. It’s a 2001 Ford E-450. The style is a blend of modern and vintage, with luxurious custom features like a DIY repurposed crystal chandelier, Bauhaus-inspired copper couch/bed, curly maple bookshelves, and literal throne room. It is very much a low-tech tiny home with simple plumbing-perfect for off-grid living. Carmen, aka the Tiny House Foodie, made sure to include ample room to cook and host, too.
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How nice when you see a couple,who enjoy being with each other. Enjoy your Adventures and stay well &safe.
#RelationshipGoals those two looks like they really love and enjoy each other's company.
Agreed! ☺️
I love how simple but unique it is. This is a great starter layout and design for someone completely new to this lifestyle (me). Because all the built ins and customization you see on some channels is discouraging.
I love the sinks. And I love the repurposed dressers for the sinks and counters.
And those sofas are fantastic.
I think this is a great way to get started! You don't have to be fancy at first, just functional for your needs! I love it! Their painting skills are amazing!
🙏☺️👌
Cool kitchen set up, simple plumbing, nice sink, and cabinetry! Cool oven/dehydrator! And love the bookshelves/wall divider for bathroom privacy. And love that short sassy hair do!
I have 4 small dressers I want to use in my build. This video gives me tons of ideas. Thanks a bunch. God bless all
This Is So Beautiful 💕
I Absolutely Love This Couple 👫🏻
They Are Adorable 💕
Those two are simply some of the nicest people you could ever meet. Last time I saw them they were sleeping in their car at a tiny house testable in MD so glad Vinny is now on the road! Hope to see you again soon. P.S. Carmen's book is a great read for anyone thinking of going tiny or down sizing in any way!
Agreed! ☺️
They really enjoy each other. Lovely to see.
Every time she says ‘tiny house’ I hear ‘honey house’! ;D
I absolutely love the way they designed their home!! Beautiful ideas ❤️❤️❤️
❤ your style. I finally see some of the kinda things I would do. Unique. Thanks for sharing! Safe travels!
I absolutely love what they did - I love that they took things meant for one thing and turned into something else. I love doing that. It’s adorable ❤️ it
I like how you kept it simple.
What a nice, talented, creative couple. I loved the hand pump for water and moveable sink! Very useful to use the counter top for various things. I also love the repurposed cabinet. The "throne" chair was fun. Nice job on the bookcases. Overall really nice. I got some good ideas.
I absolutely love this build...so simple and practical yet beautiful and full of character.
He seems so funny! It looks like they really enjoy each other❤ And also it is a great bus!
Very unique, but neither the bath nor the kitchen seem very practical. Love the sofas though! They seem both beautiful and practical.
What a delightful couple. Love the kitchen. 👍
Love what you have re-purposed and done. Hope the vision comes to fruition. Looks warm and welcoming.
Have you thought about decorating a long table and securing it to the roof (once the leak is fixed) inside. So you have art above your head then simply lower it for dinner time and snap it back up when done...
Good idea!
When you put the countertop on, extend it over the top of the fridge to make a longer counterop and make the oven more secure.
You look like great people. I hope it’s wonderful for you x
Beautiful conversion, have you thought about a Japanese soaking tub instead of a shower? They take up less room, you can have a hand shower attachment for your hair or a quick shower.
Such a great idea using furniture, real furniture in your bus
I need a door in my bathroom, I can’t stand having someone watching me pooping 🤢. Or having someone pooping open doors while I eat or cook.
@Damon Davis If they are sitting on the couch how can they not see you? Besides pooping without doors is terrible for the other people on the bus.
@Damon Davis I have to agree with kitten and marie. If it is two people on a bus...need a door every time. Married or not. It's the smell that is the kicker.
They are delightfully quirky. So sweet.
I agree wholeheartedly...
Omg I adore them❤️ they are so funny! Gotta find their channel!
You have created a warm, fancy, yet loving tiny bus home. I deeply love your ideas of a peaceful home. 🌲🎁❣️
Good ideas for Ford shuttle bus tiny conversion.
Wow, finally a bus with some class!!!
Love it!!
The most creative genius toilet I've every seen genius genius I'm copying some ideas lol
@Deimos Cain they aren't done you know
This is the best tiny house redo I have ever seen. Love it!
They seem to be having a Lot of fun... And that's the point of it, isn't it? 😉👍🏻
That blue dresser in the kitchen is beautiful!
ELEGANT .U made a shuttle bus tiny home ELEGANT 🤯😍🥰💙🤍💙🤍So gorgeous truly inspiring❤Thank u
First of a home is not for your friends to be hanging out in. You owning a house is only for the purpose of the people that live there. When you cook, eat, sleep, dress, crap, pee, watch tv is only for you and your family, the ones that live there with you. Having friends there will only give them the opportunity of stealing from you & criticizing you from all your dreams. The shuttle bus house is a great idea and a great idea to not have a problem with spending so much money on rent or mortgage. God bless you & stay safe.
What an adorable couple
Such a unique build! Love the cooper sink and the double sofas👍🏽!! Smart!❤️
Do a suspended kitchen table that lowers with a puppy. Love the couch and cushions!!
I absolutely love it. It definitely has a homie/foodie feel to it. I'm good with everything except needing a shower/wet room and separate doors to toilet and shower areas. Lastly, you can possibly build in some overhead cabinets for storage. A table is a must
Love your bus. So cute and love all the colors and the furniture is awesome. Very comfortable. Thanks for sharing.
I love them! They are so goofy! Couple goals
Love you guys, and your ideas on you home. / Shuttle Bus, Thanks for the video!
I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product come Spring of this year.
I love all the details like the bowls being used as basins and your throne room.
Awwww🤗 their so cute and goofy, I luv it.. beep🚐beep💨💨👋
Creative home. Bravo
Beutiful!!! I also never understood why people tried to cram a tiny sink in an already tiny bathroom when the kitchen sink is just steps away. Leave some baby wipes in there for a catastrophic accident and call it a day lol.
Exactly!
And then you will have transfer of e. Coli bacteria through fecal and urinary matter. Big no no! Learning infection control in an rv is as important as in a medical facility.
I would think this would go without saying....its always baffles me how people don't think to notice the basics of hygiene......
@@stormseeker34 just use instant sanitiser next to the bathroom, and you can go over to kitchen sink if you have to. This is also simple infection control procedure. Hospitals do it as standard procedure. If it is not visibly soiled, sanitiser is just as effective as handwashing.
@@CrimsonWing67 ....unless you have poop on your fingers, or herpes germs at which time you will need a sink in the bathroom.
Love the build
It's really a cute, health-conscious effort! I like it!
Great start to a great home!😁 like the "olde tyme" touches (I'm thinking like the Elizabethan B&B type houses) of the pump and bowl for sink and the chair for the composting toilet. Maybe to continue the look have small brass tub and shower curtain with the early 1900s wallpaper look. 😁
I like those colors
Very cute.
Wow, I love the sofas, they are sleek x.
Omg the subtitles were hilarious for your video! "Horse child yogurt"! 🤣 Great moto-cottage btw, very cool.
Love that throne!
*throws some eclectic antique furniture into a bus* "Here's my tiny home..."
Lol
@Lisa Philpot thank you. I think people forget that it's Not about them, but it is about the sharing of many different expressions of living and decor. By the way, I luv how they have made it be a very clean and beautiful expression of themselves and were willing to share their home with us.
I myself was going to comment, WOW finally a bus with class.
Oh snap, I just did😜
You guys are adorable! You have a cute bus with some unique ideas!
I am surprised at how much I like this even though my decorating style is modern (and minimalist). I would love too this after they have finished everything. I loved that dresser in the bathroom I also need two sinks and no composting toilets. Ick.
me too. I'm a modern gal but I like what they have done I think because there is lots of space between items and it's not a cluttered mess
This is my jam! Loved it mucho nachos and burritos! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 For being conscious about toxins in your build! I never thought about this!
Daisyville so much to love! ☺️💕
@@TinyHouseExpedition Seriously! The size is what I'm looking for.
Starting to watch from the beginning since I checked in late to the live!
Daisyville we believe it’s 20’ long. 👍😊 Follow TinyHouseFoodie.com for more details on they conversion.
@@CarmenShenk every inch counts! I'm living in 94 dodge Dakota with 2 pups! Your place, especially the throne room looks massive to me! The woven pillows are so special. I love that idea. I have lots of sentimental baby clothes from my kids that I want to incorporate into my future mobile home. You sparked me! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Just found your channel and I Loveeeeeeeeee you ideas! We want to get a shuttle bus same type as yours and the 2 couch idea was also mine, it so nice to see something you think of in reality, I LOVE IT!!!
😆 awesome tour
Best bathroom ever
I am thinking of doing the same conversion with this type of bus. Wonderful place, and awesome couple. Carmen is Hot! Keep up the awesome living.
You guys are awesome, and love ur skoolie
I’m loving the couch and the throne lol
So cute and spacious I didn't feel like I'm looking into a bus 👍
Really nice! Beautiful! I love the couches/bed.
Love it,very nice job
Love ❤️
Gorgeous! Love your style and vision!
I bought a 2005 Ford E-450 on the day this video was uploaded, lol. Now I'm only in the planning stage or doing a rebuild, so I'm looking at videos of others who have done the work already. You've done a cute rebuild and I love the look but..., well, let's just say politely that I have different interests. I would like to see your 'finished' rebuild though, sometime in the future.
Best wishes with your conversion!
Like the idea choosing a Shuttle bus, thought I was going to see creativity and true useful
Functionality for the road. Instead you through some furniture together and Wa-La you have a camper van? Anyway you have the talent to grab attention and walk someone through! Yet your van has not much to desire!
Absolutely beautiful
I like the couch bed,lol
You might be able to get one of the long white tables from Wal-Mart for now!!💜
Awesome. To each his own!!!!!!
Love the size of the bus. Floor beautifully done. Too many dang windows for my taste to let the AC out. Old lady with hot flashes, a good air unit is a big deal here in this hot as hell weather we've got in the summer. > . < I would take out all the windows but one on each side and add in floor to ceiling cabinets as much as I could get in, as deep as I could get them, with pull out organizers. For counter space just a bit of wood that pulls out, sort-of like a draw out table would be fine. Don't need a table if you've got a bed and a drivers chair to sit on. Instead I would want a washer / dryer combo, a fridge that's large for a bus conversion with freezer, and small drawer dishwasher is what I'm going for. Forget the couches! I would've gotten the best, most comfortable king or queen size bed I can get. Some nice cousins around the edge of the bed and a place to plug in a laptop and oh yeah.. Add in a 55" TV nearby the bed.. Yeah baby! Add in shower, toilet, a deep sink you can lean over to wash hair with a spray nozzle, really amazing AC unit, solar panels and yep.. my dream RV. I'd probably go with The Big Kahuna portable shower too. The 13 gallon one and just boil water or use a heating pad to warm it. All the extra space from not putting in the extra seating, I would put in larger water tanks! I don't want to stand over a sink doing dishes for 20 minutes after cooking a good meal. I wanna go and explore! If I'm in an RV I'm there to have fun, not work! lol Less work for me the better! Do laundry by hand? No. Deal with funky laundry mats where I would need to run bleach though a machine before I felt comfortable using it? No. (People can be gross, no idea what's been in that machine before you got there). Wash dishes by hand? Hell no! lol Love to cook. Clean for hours? Um, not so much. Prob going to make small area for kitty's litter box and a built - in pet carrier if I ever need to lock her up for any reason. I'll probably hide my gun safe too. Out of site out of mind.
What a fun couple and a beautiful home! They did say that they were still working on it, so it makes sense that there are still needs that haven't been met. I read a snippet of the book and it was very interesting. Her back story is quite unexpected. Since I want to help keep Barnes and Noble in business, I'll buy it the next time I'm there instead of on the internet. I'm dying to see how you can make interesting meals without too much electricity in such a limited space.
Beautiful tiny house
Looks way bigger than a shuttle bus!!
Live it up y'all! Cute style.
Very creative 🙂
That's a beautiful bus home
I LOVE this -- and i love YOU!
@@CarmenShenk You are my spirit animal! We literally just bought our bus yesterday. My whole body still hurts from holding the wheel so tight home 4 hours! This has been in our plans for a long while. I paint old beat up furniture as a hobby and worked in F&B for many years. One of my great friends since childhood actually has shows on The Food Network from us always being in the kitchen. Anyways your bus is just as beautiful as you two are. I hope to see you on the road one day and see the finished product! Love from Louisville
i might be coming in in the middle of this. First of all, I love it. It is spare but so colorful and rich. I'm not sure waht stage you are -- did you insulate floors and walls/roof, or do you have to do that in shuttle bus? How are you going to cover the windows along the sides of the bus. One reason I like the bus option is that there are all those windows but I don't reall want to cover them except with curtains with maybe an extra layer for insulation? I just realized this video was done in 2018. Are y'all still out there? Would love to see it now. Thanks.
Beautiful! ✌️❤️😀
This looks awesome. I want to learn to weave.
This is really neat!
Ok - where's the loom going to fit? I've got 4 spinning wheels...I'm trying to decide how to take my dogs & my fiber on the road!!
Very nice!!
Build a table long table that pulls out from one of the couches and pulls up like the hideaway table another RUclipsr did that and it's awesome
LOVELY
Love your transformation. If I were you, I would find a way to become momentarily rich in order to buy a free standing copper soaking tub.
I absolutely love your kitchen cabinet! That is exactly what I would like to do to save money. How do you secure it?
They mentioned how they left the original seat brackets in the floor & that's how they secure everything. They fixed brackets onto the bottoms of the items they put in there & fixed that to the original brackets.
Love it!
Pretty and efficient!
I love this build, and I adore these people, but I'm shook over the white couches in a tiny house. You'd think they'd get so much use as dinning/living/bedroom that keeping them white would be a nightmare. They're beautiful though!
I read you will be using a composting toilet. When I traveled with my family in a trailer RV, we had a flush toilet that recirculated fresh water like the ones they use in airplanes. I believe it was a Monomatic. Just an idea. And where is the shower? No hot water? Bookshelves need retention strips or tie-downs. Fresh water? Grey water? Will you be installing indoor plumbing? A follow-up of the finished project would be welcome.
Wish these videos on Shuttle conversions ever mentioned the drive train just a bit. gas vs diesel, fuel mileage, towing power etc.