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public transit looked around the bus and thought to yourself Hmm this would make the perfect home
probably not but in today's video we're going to show you how one man has turned a retired
Transit shuttle bus into a beautiful ski cabin tiny home that he lives in full time if you like
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single time we publish a new tour but right now let's jump right in and take a tour of Justin's
shuttle bus tiny home which I think is going to surprise you with a few luxury amenities [Music]
my name is Justin and welcome to my home on Wheels the mega day
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I graduated from college and took a 28 liter backpack and it started five years
of just backpacking through Latin America and then now I'm living out of a old Transit van
you know I've done over the last 18 years there's a lot of minimalist living done my
old build out on my own bus started renting it out the first person that rented it offered to buy it
they built another one it was sold before it was finished built out another one again sold before
it was finished and then all of a sudden here I am running a shop with a crew but I would say any
of the difficulties are absolutely overtaken by how much fun it is to help people on their dream
I think it's important that we're using things that are upcycled that are used they're salvaged
let me give the new life tiny house living comes out of not only wanting control of our time and
freedom but also like it comes out of this need for cheap housing which is getting more and more
difficult when people come to me whether they have 600 for their solar system or 20
000 you will live within your means and it's okay because really I think what's valuable about these
things isn't the rig but the lifestyle and the type of life that they allow one of the beautiful
things about minimalism is it's financially accessible when you live with less like brings
richness to like almost everything that you do when you look out of the vehicle and all
of a sudden you've got a dozen friends coming over you're all packed in and it feels rich
this is the Mega date all the things you might want for the perfect date will go
into depth once we go inside on that but she's just a standard 2012 Duramax
Diesel she worked Transit out of Portland Oregon She's mine right now living out
of her she's not quite done but I'm still excited to show you a tour I mean are they
ever really done this specific vehicle we took two months to build out [Music]
she is 28 feet long just under 11.5 feet tall I really left the outside pretty stocked
outside painting her with these big side doors which were the handicap lift was just make a
great like hangout Zone kind of opening up to wherever you're spending your day to the park
[Music] she's got 820 watts of solar on the roof she makes about 12 to 14 miles
to the gallon depending on how you drive her I just put in a brand new engine on
her so she's got about 800 miles on this new Duramax let's go check out the inside
foreign a bit of work on making this a special vehicle the first things are actually this
Cottonwood countertops Live Edge I went down to Sacramento and hand-picked this from a fallen tree
matching for the sink
this is also a Murphy bed so it gets to come up you have all this extra
countertop space here if you want to cook do dishes dry dishes on it
let me open it up here 400 amp hours at 12 volts of lithium I have our propane put in an
airtight box back there and this here opens and closes the the gas valve putting gas in
the lines that's for both the gas powered hot water heater as well as the cooktop
it's a queen size bed I got this at the restore here locally so you know this is probably 40 bucks
then I custom made this into a toilet that's hidden just a composting bucket toilet nothing
too fancy you know put into a little step into the tub the diesel heater gets to live down here
along with your um your sawdust or whatever you want to do for your composting toilet
the tub I got as a second because it had just a little bit of scratches on it so this bathtub
which is honestly my favorite part of this entire build out has its own 55 gallon water system it's
on a four stage recirculating filter you take a bath it goes into a holding tank and then when
you're ready for the next one it goes through four filters before it comes out hot again so this is
a really fun system it's the first time I played with it and there's a second water system for the
sink for the drinking water and dishes water and the water system is all winterized so that's a fun
addition so you can come down from the mountain after skiing all day I'm a big skier and just
take a tub which is a really nice addition it's pretty big when we finish this bus and
actually sent it off for its first ski trip last winter the whole crew hopped in here for a selfie
my preference is to feel like I'm in the woods or on the beach or wherever I am so I kept the
windows open I actually have a second set of curtains I put up that are extra thick wool so
for the winter I'll put a second or even a third line of curtains if I'm going up the mountain to
ski but actually this eight kilowatt diesel heater I've been in single digits without my
secondary line of insulative curtains Advent t-shirts so I've full build outs on 18 to 20
buses and helped on another 40 or 50. and this one I was really like I want one for myself I really
like to entertain so you can kind of see like cushions and whatnot hear over by the door [Music]
I love to cook and so the cooktop comes right out here on top you can kind of hang out in
the kitchen or you can put it up here if you want as well it's got a lot of space and it's
just like really designed to kind of entertain and just have a lot of people enjoy the space
so as we move to the front of the vehicle this is a four burner top wood burning stove I'm not
sure what year it is it's definitely much older than myself and probably my parents and I got it
out of a field in Nevada for probably 20 bucks from someone selling it and refurbished it keeps
this place super warm in the winter it's also really fun to cook on top of for guests when
you want to entertain or like have something a bit more romantic you can fire up the wood
stove some tiles up here with kind of like a nice Moroccan tile pattern still you know
working on the details and stuff to put some trim on it this fridge here been really happy
with it I've gone with dometics and other ones and some of the other like lesser known Brands
but you know it's both a 12 volt as well as a 120 plug-in for it thanks y'all for coming to
check it out this has been a really fun one to be a part of hope it helps you on your journey
to hear tiny house live in thanks for watching this week's video I hope you guys enjoyed it
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