What's up everyone? My name is Jake Frew and this is my 2017 Ford Transit
Alright so this is the space. I've been living in it since January, so about six
months now and I've spent 90% of my time in cities with it. I've been in Denver
sleeping just in the city and it's worked out great because I wanted it
to be a stealth build. So at night I close this curtain that seals off the
driver and passenger seat, I cover up the back windows with black fabric and with
that it's hard for anyone to tell if it's a work van or a camper van. So I
also have the super thin solar panels on the roof so when you're outside you
can't even really tell that there's solar panels on it. It kind of just looks
like a work van. For the kitchen area it's just like a IKEA sink and a Vigo
faucet. This works great basically my entire water system is all contained
right here in the sink cabinet and so all the fresh water for the van is
stored right underneath the sink in this compartment and so I made it accessible
from the outside of the van so that it's super easy to change out the water tanks
when I need to refill them you just pop this down. I made it double as a table so
that if I want to be hanging out outside I still have a table to kind of do some
things on but I can just unhook it let it swing down. These are really nice
quick connect valves so I can just pop those off, pull out the water tanks, you
take that somewhere fill it up and then you're good to go to throw it back in.
To cook I just use like a portable stove thing so when I cook I just pull that
out cook on that guy and it's easy. I'm only making like one pot one pan type
meals so it works out perfect. It's an alcohol stove so I don't have to worry
about carbon monoxide poisoning or anything like that so this thing works
great and it's super portable and alcohol lasts really long. This is my
hidden toilet compartment so you just pop this guy up, clamp it on here, I want
to make an adjustment to this so I don't have to clamp it I eventually am gonna
get a hook of the string but for now it's just clamped so you fold that up
pop this out and you've got your hidden toilet right there. It's one of the
nature's head composting toilets it works great it doesn't smell despite
what everyone thinks and there's a fan that's always on, so it's always cycling
air outside of the van it's kind of routed to the back of my van and dumps
out the back so there's just, there's literally never a smell in the van from
this thing it's awesome.
This is obviously like the workstation desk side of my van so I think a lot of
people do the kitchen on this side because there's a lot of space and you
don't have the door on the other side getting in the way of your kitchen but I
wanted as much desk space as possible because I was prioritizing video editing
over cooking for my build so I had plenty of room for a big old ultra wide
34 inch monitor and then just behind my driver seat is where I've got my desktop
computer strapped so it works great plenty of space to work and get stuff
done so I love it I'm stoked on that part of the build and then I just sit on
this like storage ottoman that I've just got which is awesome because I can use
it as a chair to work but then it also doubles as my laundry basket so any
multi-use thing when you're living in a van is awesome so this is a great desk
chair and also my dirty laundry bin I guess that's it for the main part of the
for the main cabin I'll show you the garage real quick
this is where I keep like all the outdoor toys the bikes and snowboards
skateboards all that stuff is great back here I don't have to worry about them
being muddy and dirty and wet and all that going in here and then I built this
sliding tray so that I could fit two bikes on one tray and slide it out so
it's a lot easier to access it from the side this is also where I have all of my
electrical panel and my battery and my inverter stored back there
all right so that's it for the tour of land or for the van let me know if you
have any questions on any of the parts or things that I use for my bills I'll
try to link as many things as possible down below so that you know what I used
but yeah I'm stoked to you continue on the road
with this thing so I'll be making my way to Jackson Hole Wyoming next week and
then to the west coast from there so I will see you next time and I don't know
where I'll be but thanks for watching