I saw this bus on Craigslist, and I've always been a wheeler and dealer, and I knew it's something that I always wanted to try and
I just said I've lived my life, so cautiously up to this point
I got to do something that I think I'm gonna enjoy and uh I ended up just doing it. For me
I wanted the highest quality bus possible with the lowest kind of impact on my wallet and by
kind of reusing repurposed woods and basically stuff
I just found on the side of the road including getting the bus which actually traded for it. I've done everything here today for about
$4,500
All of my trims were uh
Repurposed pallet board that I found
Umm, my slab countertops used to be a teeter-totter in a goat pen that I basically cut down and
Completely redone. I have an old exit sign that I found and I used that as my medicine cabinet.
Just basically like finding a use for things that
Otherwise people would just throw away
Umm, transitioning to living in the bus full-time over the past three or four months
I've really kind of been working on like minimalizing my lifestyle and slowly fitting my life into
a space as small as this and uh
In turn, I think I've really learned a lot about myself.
This Is my 1959 Bluebird B 600 school bus that I've converted into a tiny home.
This is my
$40 Craigslist special swinging wicker chair it uh just barely fits in here
But uh absolutely love it. Down here, this is my wit's left countertops
Turned out really well really happy with it my whole kind of
Thing with this bus is I wanted the highest quality possible
But on a shoestring budget so a lot of the things I've kind of done myself
Is this kind of my like my wardrobe down here.
I got everything that I need to kind of live when I want to eat
This is my kind of dining area. Don't use it too much, but it's kind of nice to have. This is my my
Slat bed that I've made. I made it completely out of
reclaimed 2x4
Umm, it pulls out to a full size queen bed, which is really nice because I'm not the tiniest guy in the world and er
It's pretty comfy. Here is
Just kind of a side table here. Eventually this would be
Kind of like the washroom.
I'm gonna have it toilet installed underneath. This just flips up into a room divider and
Then the stuff will be here. Right now
It is excess storage because I'm still working on kind of minimalizing the junk I have. This is my
hundred dollar RV mechanic special stove
Umm, It runs on propane which is really nice. I also use it as kind of my pantry for now and
er It's it's been awesome. This is my my little fridge here. It is just basically an old koolatron cooler. That's er
55 watts so when I hook up solar it's gonna run exclusively off that. Works really well. It was like
120 bucks so I'm pretty happy with that. This is my kind of gonna be my dry goods area.
It's not quite stocked up yet, but I wanted to go with kind of a cool leg little throwback
So these are all just like vintage
liquor liquor bottles and
Old mason jars. Yeah, so the way I have my propane system working right now
It's not a hundred percent done, but what I do
I have a quick-release hose back hose back there
Basically I run it out to my cargo rack in the back where I have my propane tanks
My jerry cans and kind of firewood and stuff like that just a really simple quick setup
I didn't want to do anything too crazy with mounting tanks or anything like that
Just because the amount I used the stove it wasn't really worth putting that much time in
Especially during the supper summer months it gets so hot in here I find myself
Just eating a lot of like a lot of produce and and cooler things. For now
I'm just doing water jugs eventually I will be doing a full
Sink that's hooked up to an electric pump via my solar system. For now a 2.5. Gallon jug just works great
So people call her the Dorf back in the day
They had the Ford emblem in here and someone switched the F and the D and
Ever since then um whenever I'm driving by, people be like ah it's the 'DORF', that's so cool
Yeah So that's kind of how the name came by. This is the the deck that was put on this bad boy turns out to be
Really really useful put a couple lawn chairs in there have a beer. Probably one of my favorite features on the bus
ugh, I got a swing window basically just opens up everything
Really really nice
makes the space feel a lot bigger and also really helps with air flow.
What I really like about this bus for kind of like my lifestyle it gives me that flexibility to
Kind of go out and go kayaking and camping wherever I want, but it also
really allowed me to
Minimalize like my overhead cost I feel like I haven't lost any quality of life
but at the same time I need to work a bit less, and I can pursue things that I want to pursue in life and
Not have to kind of lose out on that