Flooring might be one of the most underestimated parts of a bus build. I know I didn’t think much about it when I first started planning, figured I’d just slap something down and move on. But then I started reading build threads and forum posts and realized that flooring in a bus touches everything — … Read more
If there’s one part of a bus build that affects everything else, it’s the bedroom. Where your bed goes dictates your floor plan. How big it is dictates what’s left for everything else. And whether you sleep well on it dictates whether you actually enjoy living in a bus or just tolerate it. I spent … Read more
The bathroom was the part of our bus build that I spent the most time overthinking. And I don’t mean a little bit of overthinking — I mean weeks of going back and forth on toilet types, shower materials, waterproofing methods, and drain pipe sizes before I finally accepted that every single decision in a … Read more
Appliances were the part of the build where I went from casually planning to genuinely overwhelmed. Every single appliance connects to your power system, your fuel system, your weight budget, and your floor plan all at once. I’d pick a refrigerator and then realize it changed everything about my battery bank. I’d settle on a … Read more
When I first started looking into bus conversions, I assumed a bus was a bus. Yellow, rectangular, done. Then I started seeing terms like Type A, Type C, transit bus, pusher, coach, shuttle, and I realized the world of buses is way bigger and more confusing than I expected. The vehicle you pick determines everything … Read more
I remember the exact moment I went from casually watching skoolie videos on YouTube to actually thinking, “I could do this.” It was a build tour of this guy’s 40-foot Blue Bird — he’d done the whole thing himself, no construction background, no formal training, and the thing looked like it belonged in a magazine. … Read more
I didn’t plan to write a guide this long about living with animals in a bus. But the more I dug into it, the more I realized how much there is to cover, and how many people are getting tripped up by stuff that’s pretty easy to solve if you know about it ahead of … Read more
Painting your bus is one of those projects that sounds simple until you’re standing in a driveway with a foam roller in your hand and 40 feet of chrome yellow staring back at you. I spent an embarrassing amount of time reading about paint before I ever opened a can, and what I found is … Read more
I spent an embarrassing amount of time in YouTube comment sections before I ever wrote a word about bus conversions. Not watching the builds — reading the comments underneath them. Hundreds of them. And the same handful of questions kept showing up, phrased slightly differently every time. “How much does this cost?” “How long did … Read more
I’ll be honest, when I first started digging into bus conversions, I was focused entirely on the residential side of things. Living in a bus, traveling, all that. But I kept running into people who weren’t just living in their buses — they were working out of them. Running actual businesses. And the more I … Read more