Van Life Essential Supplies! Everything you need to build out a van amzn.to/3TwM1CN Alternative dwellings are great when it's your choice to choose to live that way, but do you ever wonder why less of us are able to buy a traditional home? The answer simply is currency debasement. The answer more deeply is answered in my new podcast ua-cam.com/video/VZtG5aHt20Y/v-deo.htmlsi=7o2YPFRt4QLy0A7i
I am 73 years old and I moved into my 2014 Chevy Express, fulltime. Fulltime VanLife for 9 Months. A few challenges because of my physical restraints. But in this community people help each other. So there's a different mindset. Thank you for the pep talk, I just Keep Putting One Foot in Front of the Other. 🦋 Sheryl
Y’all are so cute, I loved what you said about patience and how the build brought that out in your relationship. It’s a good sign you can laugh about it all now! Your van looks amazing!
Thank you!! All the hardships were well worth it and helped us to learn how to better communicate with one another. We wouldn’t change the process in a heartbeat as we came out stronger and more in love than we ever thought possible!
1,000 hours at the University of UA-cam, now that made be giggle !! What a great van, I wish you both the very best of luck in your travels. Your such a nice couple, with a great van, built with love.
I really like her/their stance on spending time away from each other doing their own things. Then, their not living 'the same van life' so they have their own freedom and passions and the van just bridges them together--takes them where they want to go--with the comfort of tiny home on wheels :) Thanks for sharing!
You two ROCK! What a sweet couple...you guys deserve each other. Great van build, love everything that you both did. Thanks for sharing everything. Hope to see you two on the road someday. Michael
What a dream having a carpenter! I wish oh so much that I had a carpenter to help me with mine. I had a crash course in buying tools, supplies and than actually building. Their Van is totally sweet. Looks clean and finished. He should start a van building bizz. I dig his style.
Thanks for all the kind words! It’s been my most rewarding project as a carpenter ever! Ahh our own business doing this full time would be the dream! But first…travel! :)
Thank you for the encouragement. I am a year in to refurbishing a 1994 falcon and definitely in over my head but hopefully with the help of family can finish in the next year in time for retirement. I know I am going to love van life and can’t wait!
LOVE this build!!! It is so much smarter to build the bed to slide out width ways rather than length ways!!! The couch/ storage under the pull out is an amazing design also!!
Really love the interior design choices inside the van. Looks like a caravan style interior with all the barn wood, the wooden corner mouldings, half shiplap and sage cabinets with the black ornate hardware. Makes it very homey and livable.
Neat and spacious , really enough room to even do yoga if one feels the need . It's a well thought out build , beautiful, and different , it's a sight for tired eyes , tired of seeing one van , like all the other vans look alike like it's one van being driven by different couples , the vans look like they were built by one person . They're all white painted inside like insane asylum institutes or hospitals . But this one is really different , looks cozy ,homey and comfy , just faaabuulous 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Good job. Enjoy it all. I just put my floor in with a friend who has all the tools. Waiting for my wool insulation to arrive. Doing my floor and walls over the winter. Step by step.You show a lot of encouragement.
I bought a Chevy Express 3500 2000 for 3k, I've been living in it for a couple day's, I'm building it while i livie in it. Sadly i couldn't wait given life situation. The good thing is that it has a crazy layout. Like nothing I've seen on UA-cam. But given that I'm living in it I'm building it, working and eat. Repeat. I'm about 7k in it. But i will say, 300ah lithium, 800w solar, and 3000w inverter. Going all ot in the electrical because got my gaming pc that i got hook haha. Most complicated things is that i had to make a roof rack for the solar because it's one of the tall high tops and really don't want to put weight on the fiberglass. Luckily where getting to are objective and the build is almost done inside. After that some mechanical things have to be looked but 350 sbc 5.7 is running fine as the transmission. Probably going to swap it for aces efi system in the future. Lol. I had worked in construction but never did this amount of stuff. I still have to buy yhe water tanks 😅.
Thank you for the tour. It’s a great build! Any chance you can share the link you ultimately used for your composting toilet? Wishing you both many happy travels!
We built the composting toilet ourselves. It’s very basic; just a funnel into a jug for 1 and a small garbage bin, bag and some mulch for 2. We even have extra storage on the side for toilet paper :) and thank you, we appreciate that!
Great build😁 You need to build a faraday Cage out of the electricity storage. Sleeping straight above it is not healthy at all. Thats what most people never think about. Its like having a cell phone in the pocket. Cancer is around the corner.
I like the build but I’m not quite down with the divided kitchen and the bench. Having to sit on an angle all the time would be difficult so I would have to sit in the middle. Other than that I like it. I especially like the bed facing out rather than side to side. Good luck traveling! Vaya con Dios!
Soon as I find some thing and get to the bank to get the financing it's gone they're going so fast I don't have time to get my financing on them I'm working on another one now
Way cool! I’m in the process of rebuilding my 1986 Dodge b van. Can you tell me what front seats your using? Brand and model? They look perfect for what I want.
I just sold (9/22) a 2008 class C motorhome with an E450 v10 triton motor with 137k on the clock which is nothing for $19,500. It slept 8 people and was previously a "Cruise America" motorhome. This is cool but you can find much more spacious setups than this with a lot less bother or similar cost to the money they said they spent. This is cool and thanks for sharing but using a class C as a starting point would probably make the most sense for anyone watching and would probably cost similar money, even if you wanted to tweak things.
Nice build, do youse miss the bathroom shower? I think i would need that to be happy in a van but every thing is a trade off and if you have one you givve up another.
I like how nice n simple ur space is , and your functionality is!!! What do you guys do for on the road life? Best wishes and again I love ur build👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽😊😊😊🥰🌲🎥
Is the roll bar the reason u can add all that weight to the top of the van like the deck and solar panels? I ask because i feel like maybe without it and with time and bumps on the road the fiberglass shell will begin to crack
Honestly, on the side of the road is where we find most of it or friends places with a farm! We tried hamster bedding but that was awful and made it smell worse 😝
One thing that I don't understand is how you go from charging your house batteries to then trickle charge the van battery. Can you enlighten me how to accomplish this?
there are certain solar charge controllers that do this because they charge your house batteries from solar, and alternator when running the engine, when the engine is off and the house batteries are full it diverts that solar energy through the wire to your starting battery, which is the same wire that charges your house batteries when the engine is running. here is one that does that amzn.to/3Wm9qaJ
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Van Life Essential Supplies! Everything you need to build out a van
amzn.to/3TwM1CN
Alternative dwellings are great when it's your choice to choose to live that way, but do you ever wonder why less of us are able to buy a traditional home?
The answer simply is currency debasement. The answer more deeply is answered in my new podcast
ua-cam.com/video/VZtG5aHt20Y/v-deo.htmlsi=7o2YPFRt4QLy0A7i
I am 73 years old and I moved into my 2014 Chevy Express, fulltime. Fulltime VanLife for 9 Months. A few challenges because of my physical restraints. But in this community people help each other. So there's a different mindset. Thank you for the pep talk, I just Keep Putting One Foot in Front of the Other.
🦋 Sheryl
Wow! Fair play to you, I am very impressed and inspired by you! 🥰👏
You two seem like a real team, that's rare.
We’re really lucky to have found each other to share this crazy experience :)
❤ yess I said the same only in my head such a precious couple.
Y’all are so cute, I loved what you said about patience and how the build brought that out in your relationship. It’s a good sign you can laugh about it all now! Your van looks amazing!
Thank you!! All the hardships were well worth it and helped us to learn how to better communicate with one another. We wouldn’t change the process in a heartbeat as we came out stronger and more in love than we ever thought possible!
No gats aloud hear
1,000 hours at the University of UA-cam, now that made be giggle !!
What a great van, I wish you both the very best of luck in your travels.
Your such a nice couple, with a great van, built with love.
I really like her/their stance on spending time away from each other doing their own things. Then, their not living 'the same van life' so they have their own freedom and passions and the van just bridges them together--takes them where they want to go--with the comfort of tiny home on wheels :) Thanks for sharing!
Little heaven on wheels.
Agreed 😇😇
An awesome Mopar!
Thank you for sharing your delightful home!
It was our pleasure :)
He’s more than a carpenter. He’s a craftsman.
What a great couple and great build. 🤙
Thanks for the support!!
You two ROCK! What a sweet couple...you guys deserve each other.
Great van build, love everything that you both did.
Thanks for sharing everything.
Hope to see you two on the road someday.
Michael
What a dream having a carpenter! I wish oh so much that I had a carpenter to help me with mine. I had a crash course in buying tools, supplies and than actually building. Their Van is totally sweet. Looks clean and finished. He should start a van building bizz. I dig his style.
Thanks for all the kind words! It’s been my most rewarding project as a carpenter ever! Ahh our own business doing this full time would be the dream! But first…travel! :)
She has a reason ).
Thank you for the encouragement. I am a year in to refurbishing a 1994 falcon and definitely in over my head but hopefully with the help of family can finish in the next year in time for retirement. I know I am going to love van life and can’t wait!
Enjoy the build as that’s an adventure on its own! Progress is a process!! Good luck we’re excited for your life on the road to begin :)
AWESOME couple with WONDERFUL attitudes 💞
Thank you
✌🏽❤🙏
Fantastic job you both did home is where the heart is love the set up you both have good luck to you both👍💖
LOVE this build!!! It is so much smarter to build the bed to slide out width ways rather than length ways!!! The couch/ storage under the pull out is an amazing design also!!
I love your SPIRITS!
Really love the interior design choices inside the van. Looks like a caravan style interior with all the barn wood, the wooden corner mouldings, half shiplap and sage cabinets with the black ornate hardware. Makes it very homey and livable.
Love your van and the lovely soft green colors. The woodwork of the cabinets are beautiful. Very neat van. Enjoy your hard work. Just love it.
Do the magnet thing like you did with the fridge on the barn door closet setup !! hehe
My thought exactly!
It's all beautiful. Relationship, respect, patience & kindness towards each other & the VIDEO!!! Thanks for sharing🙏❤️🙏
Best layout, also smart placement of the fridge and the stove. Great learning curve. Smart electrical setup.
Great job kids love the Barnwood accents also the style of the van those late 90s Dodgers with the high top or cool. congratulations
Neat and spacious , really enough room to even do yoga if one feels the need . It's a well thought out build , beautiful, and different , it's a sight for tired eyes , tired of seeing one van , like all the other vans look alike like it's one van being driven by different couples , the vans look like they were built by one person . They're all white painted inside like insane asylum institutes or hospitals . But this one is really different , looks cozy ,homey and comfy , just faaabuulous 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Totally agree!!!!
Y'all did a great job, I love it 😀
Y'all are so beautiful 😍
🥰🥰 Thank you!!
Lil home on wheel. Who needs more. I hope for this life some time :)
Since you just said "never grow up" I'll be "70" in September I've
always wanted to live "free"
A perfect time to start :)
Just turned 69 in May. Also, diagnosed with CKD, same month. Can't give up my dream of travel, no build...🙏❤️🙏☝️
Good job. Enjoy it all. I just put my floor in with a friend who has all the tools. Waiting for my wool insulation to arrive. Doing my floor and walls over the winter. Step by step.You show a lot of encouragement.
Good going.
Nice preparation.
Lot's better than my day.
Working on the next one.
Keep on tinkering..
What a beautiful couple. And love the build out.
Yous are a sweet couple made me smile with your laughter ..love you van 🙃🙂
Awee thank you! We appreciate that☺️ laughter is what kept us going😜
Very nice couple thank you for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful van and lovely couple!
I sure needed to hear about anyone who wants to do this can do it and no problem finding a place to park!!!!
From what we’ve experienced, as long as you’re respectful and move around each night, you won’t have any trouble ☺️
You have a absolutely wonderful build Just ENJOY LIFE.🎉
I bought a Chevy Express 3500 2000 for 3k, I've been living in it for a couple day's, I'm building it while i livie in it. Sadly i couldn't wait given life situation. The good thing is that it has a crazy layout. Like nothing I've seen on UA-cam. But given that I'm living in it I'm building it, working and eat. Repeat. I'm about 7k in it. But i will say, 300ah lithium, 800w solar, and 3000w inverter. Going all ot in the electrical because got my gaming pc that i got hook haha.
Most complicated things is that i had to make a roof rack for the solar because it's one of the tall high tops and really don't want to put weight on the fiberglass. Luckily where getting to are objective and the build is almost done inside. After that some mechanical things have to be looked but 350 sbc 5.7 is running fine as the transmission. Probably going to swap it for aces efi system in the future. Lol. I had worked in construction but never did this amount of stuff. I still have to buy yhe water tanks 😅.
Thank you for the tour. It’s a great build! Any chance you can share the link you ultimately used for your composting toilet? Wishing you both many happy travels!
We built the composting toilet ourselves. It’s very basic; just a funnel into a jug for 1 and a small garbage bin, bag and some mulch for 2. We even have extra storage on the side for toilet paper :) and thank you, we appreciate that!
Lol nice build....we attend the same college--- University of UA-cam
it's a great school, can't beat the tuition costs!
Classes start when WE want! 😂
Lol eye hope eye never 🎓 graduate out.
The coolest diy van I’ve seen, and what a sweet couple …. Thanks for sharing ☺️
Great build. Great layout. Smart. Hard work. Enjoy.
Wow! You 2 did an amazing job! You should be very proud of yourselves.❤️🤗
FYI: if you are ever in Ga. I would love to meet y'all.
Absolutely! Follow us on our socials and if we get close just let us know! We’d love to give you a tour!
Lovely van. Great couple!
🥰🥰
Love your build! Old vans have so much character! Nice job!
Really like the barn boards!
I like the non-hidden fridge
it turned out great guys!
Great build😁 You need to build a faraday Cage out of the electricity storage. Sleeping straight above it is not healthy at all. Thats what most people never think about. Its like having a cell phone in the pocket.
Cancer is around the corner.
Good going old timer...
What a beautiful project of love! ❤
Amazing stuff, thank you for the video.
I like the bech seat/bed arrangement!!
I like the build but I’m not quite down with the divided kitchen and the bench. Having to sit on an angle all the time would be difficult so I would have to sit in the middle. Other than that I like it. I especially like the bed facing out rather than side to side. Good luck traveling! Vaya con Dios!
You two are ad orable!!! God Bless
Very nice
Thanks 😊
Great van and a cute couple!
👍🌳📹
Thank you ☺️☺️
Actually going to buy my van TOMORROW 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Yeeeeaaaah woooohoooo! So excited for you!!!
That van didn't work out
I'm back to looking again
Soon as I find some thing and get to the bank to get the financing it's gone they're going so fast I don't have time to get my financing on them I'm working on another one now
Excellent build!
Thank you!! ☺️☺️
SUPER COOL!!
I LOVE this build!
Thank you☺️☺️ we appreciate it!
Nice Job
Thank you!
Beautiful
You're at the Lagoon! :-)
Great attitude.....AWESOME VAN...I HOPE YAWL ENJOY UR TRAVELS ...AND UR ADVENTURES!
Awesome van
Way cool! I’m in the process of rebuilding my 1986 Dodge b van. Can you tell me what front seats your using? Brand and model? They look perfect for what I want.
I just sold (9/22) a 2008 class C motorhome with an E450 v10 triton motor with 137k on the clock which is nothing for $19,500. It slept 8 people and was previously a "Cruise America" motorhome. This is cool but you can find much more spacious setups than this with a lot less bother or similar cost to the money they said they spent. This is cool and thanks for sharing but using a class C as a starting point would probably make the most sense for anyone watching and would probably cost similar money, even if you wanted to tweak things.
WOW super cool 😮
Love this!
Thank you!
Love your build. Very homey. Thanks for sharing.
very cool couple.
Nice build.
Wow, so different. No bed, cabinets, same crap as all the other vans!
Dudes rocking the slumber queen 😃 fuck yea
Alarm goes off!! What kind of van life is that?
Congrats! You're doing it😊 Just saying 👋
Beautiful!!!👠🚌👠
Thank you! 😊
Very cool.
Nice build, do youse miss the bathroom shower? I think i would need that to be happy in a van but every thing is a trade off and if you have one you givve up another.
I like how nice n simple ur space is , and your functionality is!!! What do you guys do for on the road life? Best wishes and again I love ur build👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽😊😊😊🥰🌲🎥
Great van build and video. I have the same year dodge van in an Islander model. Where did you get the cab rubber mats?
Is the roll bar the reason u can add all that weight to the top of the van like the deck and solar panels? I ask because i feel like maybe without it and with time and bumps on the road the fiberglass shell will begin to crack
Cool van! Where did y’all get the cabinet handles from?
They are damn cute
Just kidding I love Chelsea's and James optimism however I would have opted for more space in my van I try to create more space as possible
where do you dump the compost toilet?
Where do you get wood chips from?
Honestly, on the side of the road is where we find most of it or friends places with a farm! We tried hamster bedding but that was awful and made it smell worse 😝
👏👍💪🔥
🙂
How do you cook?
One thing that I don't understand is how you go from charging your house batteries to then trickle charge the van battery. Can you enlighten me how to accomplish this?
there are certain solar charge controllers that do this because they charge your house batteries from solar, and alternator when running the engine, when the engine is off and the house batteries are full it diverts that solar energy through the wire to your starting battery, which is the same wire that charges your house batteries when the engine is running. here is one that does that
amzn.to/3Wm9qaJ
Where Is this guy locate i would like yo hire home yo work on my van
Get mini 🎉 split air and heat
I would like yo hire this hoy yo work on my van i just started my camping van conversación
How much did your Solar system cost in total?
Dude, I knows you can make a limited stink, but Eva Zu Beck has 1.41 Million subscribers on UA-cam. USA Customs have a serious job to, but they are NOT ALLOWED TO BE BULLIES. They recently treated her atrociously at the Mexico border.
Help Make a campaign of it 👍
Stand proud USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸
its not dodge red, its 80's burgundy 🤣
Whatever you call it, we didn’t like it 🤣 you should have seen it before the paint! Looked like Eddie Murphy in Delerious! Lol
How do they cook?
We have an air fryer from our inverter and a 2 burner butane stove under the lift up countertop ☺️
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I give them about a month
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