Laying Wood Floors

The wood floors we scored on Freecycle have begun to transform our bus into a home. It's our first actual forward moving project. It's exciting and like usual, Steve is making it look better than I had pictured in my head. I cannot wait to start building furniture. We cannot go anywhere in the bus until we have seat belts for the kids which requires seats which requires flooring to go in first. Thus, flooring is our first priority.

A Conundrum

We need your advice...We want to paint the inside of the bus with colorful colors. I've been watching the free ads for two weeks now and have scored a 2/3 can of mossy green. But, we want to use orange for the inside ceiling. I looked up Metro that makes recycled paint but they make nothing orange. So, here's my conundrum. I want to only use recycled or free items for this bus but to buy orange paint breaks my rule. Any ideas and thoughts out there. Please e-mail me kirkndopp@hotmail.com.

P.S. yes, they do make red and yellow recycled paint but I've mixed them before and they don't turn out orange but more like pink.

The Plan

To answer some of your questions as to what we plan to do once the bus is converted, I can only say, more of this...

This is the dream...

These are already converted house buses. The green one on the bottom was made with all recycled materials from Craigslist. I find them absolutely inspiring. I don't think our goal is to make our Blue Daisy this nice but they are full of great ideas in the meantime.

Dismantle Project

First thing is first - we must move and re-arrange. The bunk beds were in the front of the bus because the previous owners were into 4 wheelers and would park them inside. This scrunched the school bus into a 25 foot home for them but we are going to spread out since bicycles are much smaller than 4 wheelers. The kids had a blast taking the bunks apart. I cannot tell you how much they love running the length of that bus - over and over again!

Last night we scored some new to us free wood flooring from someone's attic. It'll be perfect for the bus! Yeah!

She's Home

After a month of trying to decide between an RV or school bus, we finally decided we did want something big enough to house us and our bikes. We jumped on this one and had the keys in hand within two days. She's 40 feet long, six big giant tires, and has the skeleton of a house inside. The plumbing for a bathroom is in but there is no shower, toilet or sink. Everything for the kitchen is there except well, a stove, fridge or sink. But, the holes have already been drilled, the electrical set-up so we're excited about finding the right set-up for us. The most important thing about the bus - it runs fantastic! I mean, starts right up and purrs (loudly). So, our summer project will be, this. We plan to use mostly donated or recycled items for the bus spending the least amount of money. We'll be hitting up friends and family for all kinds of junk toiling around in the garages.