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In today's video tour we're going to take a look at one bus that's been converted into
a nomadic tiny home with a stunning modern interior.
The fun-loving couple behind this diy bus conversion decided to follow their passions
for scuba diving and full-time travel, and they wanted to tow their tiny house along
with them.
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tour of this amazing tiny house!
Hi, I'm Audrey, and I'm sam.
We are originally from Quebec, Canada and we have been traveling in our skoolie for
the last six months.
Welcome aboard!
We've been together for more than eight years now and we've met in gaza.
At that time sam was working in a dive shop, and I was a tourist, and we fell in love!
We said we're going to build the bus we're going to bring all our diving equipment and
we're going to do the coast.
That's always have been our dream since we started dating.
So we've decided to name the bus the Octobus obviously because we like diving plus another
thing we love the animal, the octopus, because this creature is able to adapt to everything
new environment new places and this is how we feel.
We feel like an octopus!
We pretty much did everything in the bus.
We didn't have any prior experience building it took us six months full time to do it but
it's been such a great learning experience.
the different thing about skoolie build in quebec is that we have a lot of laws, a lot
stricter than here in the USA.
So we have to do a inspection after we transformed the bus we had to respect all the rules that
the rv has to respect.
I think we pretty much figure out what we could do and what we wanted to do and we're
pretty happy with uh how it turns out.
We've been living in the bus for six months now our motto is
which means we are nomads but no minimalist.
It doesn't feel like we're camping it feels like we're in our house.
Wherever we are we feel like home.
I want to welcome everybody to the inside of the octobus.
When we were thinking about the design of the inside we wanted to be an open floor plan
so this is the reason why we did keep all those big windows so the light can come in
we've painted the ceiling in white because we wanted to bring brightness to the room
and to give an open space feel.
We didn't want to have a corridor feeling.
This is our living room this is where we host people and they can stay for the night because
this couch open as a bed.
I really enjoy my homemade curtains because there are blackouts let me show it to you
just like this like that.
So this is where we usually eat our lunch and supper however if we were to do it over
again we would make a bigger table so we can invite more guests.
One day one of our friends that we've met on the road gave me this amazing octopus!
She made it out of recycled wood and some seashell that we got from the ocean.
This is where our garbage bins are so we have one for the waste and one for the recycle
.We love them because they are big plus I can cut my vegetables and fruits right here
and throw the waste into the garbage.
This is our three burner stove top and we think that it is enough . We don't need more
burners, and we also have an oven right here and we appreciate it a lot because we do not
have a microwave in the bus.
We didn't get to choose our oven because we salvaged it from an old rv; that saved us
a lot of money!
What I like about our kitchen is that we have plenty of storage.
And I also appreciate that that stays up.... maybe not now
Let's do it again.
We also like the fact that our cabinet stays up when we open them.
We've decided to have a sealed granite sink because it is scratch proof however we think
that the thing is too big.
This is our 12 volts refrigerator, it has 11 cubic feet and that includes the freezer.
We enjoy cooking so we like the size of our fridge because we can store plenty of food
inside.
All the cabinets were made custom by sam and sam's cousin who owns a kitchen refacing company.
They are made of thermal plastic and we love them because it's really easy to clean.
Here is where I put my clothes and Sam's clothes.
One of the cool features of the bus is that we were able to hide the wheel wells into
the cabinets.
So we're in the bathroom and this is our nature's head composting toilet which we appreciate
a lot.
We've never had any smell issue with it plus we did some modification for the urine compartment.
So we added a pipe that goes straight away to the black water tank.
The bathroom has a nice homey feel and we got that by the wood and the tiles at the
back at the toilet, plus we've added some octopus decoration which we like a lot.
So this is our shower so to make it fit we had to first cut the edges so that uh follows
the the curves plus we have created this to lock the door while we are driving.
So the door does not open.
Welcome to our bedroom.
This is our ac unit and it works off of battery power.
As you can see the bed takes a lot of space.
This is actually a king size bed.
We didn't want to buy another mattress because you know they are really expensive, and we
loved ours.
However I find it quite annoying when Sam has to climb over me to get out of the bed
at night.
We enjoy to watch movie in the bedroom this is where we put our projector and we can watch
the tv on this screen.
I can see a change in myself and Audrey since we started.
We have a more open-minded way of seeing things.
It's been really enlightening for us.
Life has been so beautiful since we've been living on the road.
We didn't say that when we were at home in our apartment or wherever.
We just stop and contemplate what we're living right now.
It's been crazy just to to sit down and say wow that's a nice life!
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