MY LAST DAY and I'm not done. Can I finish it? | Van Build #24
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- It's my last two days of building the van and I'm running out of time. I can only stay at my aunt's and uncle's place for the summer and now I need to move in. But there is still A LOT to do. So what can I do? Focus on the functional parts (and not so functional, but the ones that make the space livable). Will I be able to make it?
What I used this episode:
Tools
Chop saw
Table saw
Jigsaw
Sander
Electric screwdriver
Clamp
Materials
Fir boards 18 x 100 mm
14mm fir tongue and groove
Swingcolor indoor solvent-free wood glaze chalk white
Stainless, self-drilling screws
Fir battens 24 x 44 mm
20x black furniture handles
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My Instagram: / lenja_ka
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Music by Silent Partner
Intro song by Silent Partner
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I've been living in my 1979 Mercedes-Benz James Cook Campervan for two years now. I loved that van, but it was itching me to do my own conversion; alone and without any experience. I sold my old van and started my very own van conversion!
In this Van Build Series I will take you along my journey of building my own home on wheels. I will do everything from insulation, cladding, and furniture to the water and electric system. And all that while I'm learning how to do these things on the way. I will go through many hours of work, frustrating moments and defeats in order to achieve the experience of creating things with my own hands. I hope you're enjoying this series and maybe you can even learn something from my ideas & mistakes. - Lenja
#vanconversion #cladding #backdoors
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I'm an old woman but I've so enjoyed watching you in your van build. I like that you've shown us your mistakes, as we can learn from them, but even more I like your attitude when you make a mistake! You just figure it all out and go on with a smile. Thank for sharing! I hope to see many more videos from you as you travel! They are enlightning in many ways!
Thank you so much! I'm super happy you enjoyed the build series! 😊 I'm looking forward to sharing my trevels when I get back at it again 💪
Another enjoyable video from a hard working young woman. You’ve done a great job on making your home and I hope you enjoy living in it. I am just one of many who wish you all the best at school, in your career, and life. If you can, make more videos so we can follow your adventures. You are talented and meticulous. Good for you!
Hi Lenja - just got to say thank you and enjoying your build so much! So good to see you working your way through it, solving problems - amazing! You are a natural and your films are so engaging for your audience - always a must watch for me!!! Your English is perfect and better than mine and I was born here!!! LOL!!! - Keep up the fab work and look forward to seeing the next episode and news of future adventures in your quite delightful new home!!!!
It is looking great, from what I see it is liveable with just a bit work to make it perfect, but it is a totally livable place great job Lenja.
Thank you! 😊
Looking pretty sweet! Thanks for sharing!
Great video 👍👍👍👍👍
Truly you have done a great job
beautiful beautiful Lenja!
Those doors look good !
Lenja...been here since day one and I have to say your work ethic, determination and give it a go attitude is an inspiration! Looking forward to seeing your future adventures too. Hope your thesis is going ok! Good luck! ❤️👍😀
Thank you! 😊 And thank you for always watching and all your support! Can't wait to share them when I get back at it again!
Really enjoying your videos. Seeing the van change has been awesome. Keep up the good work!
Congrats! Looks fabulous.
Looking forward Lenja to seeing your new van build, you are amazing and good luck 🍀
Turned out great !
Amazing how people put so much effort in making their van as "cosy" as possible. For example the shelf doors. Functionally a simple board would have done the job. But no, they need to have those additional frames....?!
Damn. Miss u already!
😳😁😏
Good luck!
Nice one 👍🇬🇧
Wow your hair, its amazing!!! 😀
You did great
looks good. I like it. glad your pleased with everything. wish I could have been there to help you. lot more easy ways to do things. Happy travels
looking good. a lot better job then i have done,
Amazing, great job :)
The back doors look so sharp, like them even the cabinets came out cool,well done.
Thank you! 😊
Lenja you've done a great job building your van and should be very proud of it, I hope the move into the van goes well and wishing you all the best.
Amazing job
Hope it all goes smoothly for you.
Keep going you'll do it x
I call you “Little Miss Awesome” within my (posse) ....
Great Job ! SAFE TRAVELS
Haha thanks! 😊💪
Wow it has really come together! Great job!
That looks FANTASTIC well done you !
Something we learnt - you can never have enough calculations :)
Also, the van is never "done" so onwards and upwards :D
Hehe, in this case that's defenitely true! And you're right again, I think I need to call at least vesion 1.0 done in order stay sane 😅
Halli Hallo
I am always amazed how many details you manage to focus on. Music is obviously carefully chosen for your story telling and the entertainment is part of the approach. Your natural way is fascinating to watch and the craftsmanship is beyond my ability. The created relationship with the camera and audience is pleasantly fresh. As mentioned before, you inspire and motivate with your episodes. Great to spend the summer with you and looking forward to see you again
Aww thank you for your nice words! I'm so happy that you enjoyed my videos and that you appreciate these aspects! :) Thank you for watching!
_You got a lot done, and it looks sweet! : ) The music was great, too!_
Thank you! 😊 That feels good to hear because it doesn't feel like it most of the time 😅 I'm glad you liked it!
Life of Lenja You’re welcome Lenja! : )
Danke Schön Lenja, it has and it is a pleasure to follow you in this way, getting to"know" you and your van. I hope the best for you and ofcourse I'm hoping to see you soon again. Now the Corona seam to be easier and countries are opening up their borders, we'll hit the road again! Regards Rickard from Sweden.
Brilliant as always!! An amazing accomplishment 👍 the hardest part is over now 😀
I hope moving in has gone well! Good luck with finishing your last projects. Look forward to future video updates!
Thank you, it was stressful but it has! 😊 Thanks for watching
Nice one 👍🤓👍
Thanks Mel!
You've done an outstanding job! Love watching your videos and I'm looking forward to the next one 😃
You can do it! Love your videos, I also do Videos on UA-cam!
Great work!
Hello Lenja! It’s been great watching you work on your van (: You are doing an awesome job. I’ve been following your tutorials while working on my van. You are such a strong woman building this entire thing by yourself. Hope this gives you motivation to finish strong!
Thank you Lenja for your latest update on your van build. Looking good, and good luck with the moving in stage , almost completed my van build too now... 😉👍 keep safe and look forward to your future videos...
Schon fertig 😳 Eine Roomtour wäre schön - Danke
what a professional
!I am proud of you,It look great my friend!
I love how you did the cupboard doors. Looks very tidy. I might steal that for my build. I'm about just over half way done. Can't wait to see what you do next :)
Thank you! Make sure to leave enough space between two doors that are facing each other when open (in my case no 2 and 3) so that you can have both open at the same time! I forgot that and those were to problems with installing them 🙈 good luck with your build! 💪
Hi young lady.
It would have been easier to of made the timber on the front of your draws the width of the opening and it would have covered the runners 👍
Thank you Lenja, i love to watch and learned a ton!!!
Well done on all of your build really enjoyed watching all of it well done
So, the frame around the back window, it’s a little shelf when your in bed? What is it’s purpose? I know you don’t need MORE work to do but I wonder if you have considered attaching a flip-up door on the garage. Depending on how it’s installed it could provide additional space as a table (van doors open) and would protect and keep what’s in the garage out of sight when you open the back doors. Thanks for the videos-they are very welcome viewing.
Yes, the frame should function as a little shelf but it also should make the whole back look nicer. I really like the flip-up table idea! When I find some time I can test out the concept and might try it. Thanks for the idea and thank you for watching! 😊
Ahh, you have an infectious spirit young lady. I too have made some errors in judgement or design/mistakes in my build, and now in the last few days I've just decided "F#CK it!", it's more important to get gone, not to mention imperative that I BE gone (end of lease). Plus plus plus, one thing that I've heard SO often from van build people is, you're likely going to want to make some changes down the road, so don't fret too much on the details. So, I've tried to keep mine as basic/cheap yet nicely done as possible, knowing that IF I continue with the "lifestyle" I'll very likely change almost everything about it. I also know (in advance) that I'll kick myself for spending too much, carrying too much of the wrong stuff, fretting over the non-essential, unimportant details and not paying enough attention to the important ones. Right now, for instance, I'm trying to decide what tools & hardware to take along considering how much room I'll have to spare for such things. How much to alot for the "garage", versus the other essentials? How likely is it that I'll need or use what I pack? You want to be prepared for anything, but not pack anything you don't need, right? I mean, I just shave my head to save space and cut down on weight! ;-) (only half kidding)
You've done a phenomenal job Lenja - I cannot imagine the effort, persistence, and skills involved in not only doing your build, but videoing it, planning, editing, etc.. My hat (that I still need to purchase) is off to you! I look forward to hearing/seeing your further adventures. Bon voyage!
Yeah, you're so right! Plans (and especially ideas) for van build 2.0 are already forming in my head and I haven't even started traveling with it... I feel like I could definitely spend all the time I wanted to spend traveling on optimizing and reshaping the van. 😅
The packing becomes problematic when you're "not done" because you have the ultimate excuse to pack all of your building material and tools, that you won't end up using anyway. At least that's what I struggled with 😅 Good luck with finding your balance there and safe travels to you!
Aw thank you for your nice words! Hope to have you on board for that!
what a fantastic effort. You have worked so hard and self-taught. Looking forward to the final details coming together. What is causing your timeline?
Thank you! 😊 I had to go back to school in Berlin to finish my Bachelor's degree
I had my doorlock fall apart, good thing i didnt get to those doors yet. I will make sure i can still reach those parts when im done.
That's a good hint, thank you! I might redo some parts of this back door sonce the fabric I used turned out to not be ideal for this. I'll make sure to keep that in mind!
You are a very interesting young lady that is amazing how you have built this van how did you learn how to do all that looks great I’m watching your video right now looking out my window at all of the rain and wind is blowing we have a hurricane that’s gonna come through here in just a couple hours my time is 4 o’clock in the evening on Sunday June 7-2020
Please tie up your hair when you are working with machines like that table saw. Your hair can get stuck in there and you don't want that to happen. The van build is coming along very nicely. You are doing great.
no her long hair is sexy
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"why am I doing this" LOL :)
DANKE FU"R deine immer informativ video GU'SSE AUS LOLLAND DER NACHBAR INSEL VON FEMHERN BJARNE XPOST DANEMARK. 🇩🇰🇩🇪🤹♂️🤹♀️
Please upload again!
I did! 🙃
just wondering why are you in hurry moving in?are you currently renting a place?
Well, she doesnt give much background and I respect that.
going back to school / uni
Exactly! I needed to go back to school for my bachelor thesis! I'll explain more in my video on Sunday!
Are you solo in your van
'I'm not done' ....You will never be done :) There is always another little thing, Iv'e been working on my truck for over a year now and just moved in and stage one is still not complete. I have a stage 2 planned and even a stage 3 flight of fancy down the track. I'm not one of those boring 'its not safe' types but I cringe looking at that long hair around power tools..You've seen the video of the asian chick using the cordless drill right?
❤️🤘🙏 🍻/🍵
I wrote this scathing comment on this vid but deleted it all. I'm just going to say this is just really bad. I won't be a subscriber.
watch some of her travel vids before making judgement
Thant's okay 🤷😊
Amazing. You have worked so hard. You must be proud of yourself.......