車宿美學 他們建造了最夢幻的移動之家，裏面充滿了隱藏的功能

Hi, I'm Dina. This is the Sundance Fest. Come on inside and take a tour. We left a big ranch in Montana and downsized to the size of our mudroom. Yeah. It was just time for us to hit the road with our kids. They're young. And we really wanted these core memories to be adventurous, exciting. So we as a family decided to bring our home on the road. We're Dina and Chris. And we're in the Sundance Fest. This is our home. We ended up doing a 16-inch roof raise. It makes it feel more roomy. Also added the loft area. This is not common on buses. But it's something that I actually thought of because I grew up riding in a motorhome. I would hang out there when we were driving and it was so fun to look out the window while we were driving. So I asked him if he could possibly fabricate a loft and he did. So that was something that we did differently. And I do believe we have some info on that on our Instagram. This is the coffee nook. Probably my favorite place in the bus. We have the spin. The spin actually works Bluetooth. So sometimes we're in bed and we're like, Alfred, make us cappuccino. And then he just starts making it and everyone's still sleeping. It's really fabulous. If you're going to live in a bus, why not have a bougie coffee maker? Underneath we have our control panel for our speakers. When you're doing the walls and the electrical, you really want to think about and it's kind of hard because you don't know where everything's going to go. Try to think about putting more plugs the better. But we have one back here for the coffee maker and the stereo system. Next we have the Home Depot butcher's block countertop. We decided to do no stain. It's just like a little mineral oil. So when it gets really dirty, we can sand it and then put mineral oil back on it and it works really well. I sew and so I wanted to make sure that I had enough workspace if the weather wasn't good and I needed to be inside to work. So this entire kitchen also works as a workspace for me. Underneath the butcher's block here is actually the humongous farm sink. I like a big sink because I actually bathe the children in the sink. It works out really nice. Both of them fit in here and I have a four year old and a two year old. So it's dual purpose. This top is also the table for the dinette. So a lot of times this won't be here. It will actually be here and it works really well. I created the cushions out of a Tempur-Pedic foam piece and then I added wool batting. Made each case so that I could take it off and wash it. This is like a space that gets very dirty very quickly. But what's great about denim is it's a really sustainable fabric and you can wash it. It just gets better with time. I also wanted blinds but I didn't want blackout blinds in my living space. I really wanted natural lighting. I really wanted our circadian rhythm to be with what's going on outdoors. Each of us has a cabinet here. These are the kids. This one's Chris'. This one's mine. My purse. My bathing suits. Stuff that I want to be able to grab really quickly and that just works out really well for us. So a little extra storage space is always a good thing. I mean she said, what about a school bus? You want to build a school bus? And I'm like, really? Don't tempt him with a good time. I mean, once you say go, there's no turning back. It really works out well. The space, the way that we decided on where things were going to go. It just flows. It's very functional. And I do believe that it's aesthetically pleasing. Moving over here, we have a lot of dishes and just kind of a clutter of the kitchen. But I really wanted a big, deep drawer which works really well here. I've got shoes in here. We have a four burner stove and this works as a hot plate. This is a really cool just tile ceramic that we bought off of Etsy. We chose the colors and my husband routed them in and then used wood pieces around it. And I also really wanted an oven. You can't cook Thanksgiving dinner, but you can do cookies and lasagna and stuff like that. Moving on to our exit door, which was our exit door. It's actually a hatch that we use all the time. It's really nice when you're cooking and you want to let the steam out or also just to watch the kids and yell at the kids, Hey, come in for dinner. I wanted a floating shelf and it's a moving vehicle, so floating shelves really don't work out very well. So we ended up building it out of wood and then we went to Home Depot and got these plumbing attachments. And that works out as a shelf, so I don't move anything from up here while we're moving. He also put some little recess lighting underneath for extra light while I'm cooking. I just keep bread and snacks, things for the kids here. Apartment-sized fridge, which works out amazingly. We make sure we stock up on meats and like easy meals, french fries, air fryer stuff, which brings me to this corner. That's the air fryer, toaster, broiler, oven. It does everything. It's really great. It's from Cuisinart. It's been a lifesaver. I didn't want to see an ugly oven in my living room. I didn't want to see a trash can, so we've got the trash compactor. I also really wanted extra counter space and to kind of feel like I could move around and set things out. I also had a big cabinet like this, a big pantry, and so this was the size we could fit and it holds so much stuff. This area has all of our electrical and plumbing because the bathroom is right behind this door. However, we have like four inches to work with and so I asked Chris if he could make me like a medicine cabinet, but it would be floor to ceiling because I wanted these gold mirrors. This is gold acrylic plastic and you can find people that make these for businesses like signs out of this plastic and so if you ask them just, Hey, this is the measurement I need. Can you send it to me? Most of the time, it's a yes. So we have all of our medicines and our sunblocks and our bug spray and all of our supplements and stuff like that. I actually did the backing in a reclaimed velvet fabric because I didn't want things to be jiggling around and loud and noisy. Here, I wanted a piece in the bus to be a statement piece that brought all of the elements together. So we went with this really pretty geode splice and it's a wall mural. So it's wallpaper and we used just a really strong adhesive, spray adhesive from Home Depot. We kind of did it like an art project together, which was fun. This doorknob, believe it or not, is very hard to find functional, beautiful doorknobs. We found this one on Etsy and it came from the UK. So we waited quite a while, but it's brass with actually natural stone. I wanted a special doorknob. The bathroom is a combination of my vision and what Chris could do to make it all work. I wanted concrete in the bathroom and he actually found this featherweight faux concrete at Home Depot. I love the way it looks. It brings a lot of texture, a lot of natural feeling and it's water-resistant. It's beautiful. I really wanted the Moen Nebia shower head. It uses much less water than a normal shower head and also it mists and kind of feels like a spa experience, which, why not, right? Luxury shower. It comes with a wand. The wand is amazing and it moves up and down, so it works really well for my very tall husband. Moving on, we have this beautiful brass porthole. This is a vintage ship porthole. It just twists off and then it comes out. So when I'm showering and the kids are outside and I've got suds in my hair, I can just, hey, stick my head out. It's really awesome. We can also shower the kids just right out the porthole with hot water. We have a nature's head composting toilet. Super simple to use. I make Chris take out the stuff, which he has not complained about once. We have here a vintage medicine cabinet. That was a late add, but I think it's really great for the space. And a prism light. That was from Etsy. It was a great find. I really love lighting. I really like what lighting can do for a space. That is why I use a lot of mirrors and just fun lighting. Why not have fun with it? If this is like your own creation, your art, it's, you know, something that you can really play with and enjoy and have fun with. There's no rules. So, like, literally do the craziest fun things you can do. We're living so much more in the present moment now than we ever have before. This lifestyle forces you to be present with your kids, forces you to be present with your dogs, forces you to be present with each other and be on the same page with each other and be in the flow with each other. You can't get in an argument and stay in an argument long when you're only in 28 feet. And I feel like we're evolving more as people on the road than we would be if we were sitting at home in a 9-to-5 day-to-day that, you know, a lot of people do live and that's fine and that might work for them. It was driving us crazy. But for us, we just weren't growing. As a couple, we weren't growing. We weren't just, we weren't evolving. We were distracted. And so now we're really feeling like this is just, we're blossoming on the road. I really didn't want a TV. I kind of wanted this experience to be a TV-less experience. But Chris wanted the TV. He really likes watching a show before bed or the football game on a Sunday. So in order to meet each other's needs and come to an agreement, the TV had to be on an actuator. Obviously, we're going to be in hot places adventuring through Utah and Arizona, southwest, Florida. So the mini split was important. This one is just a pioneer. It's like a simple model. It also has heat, which is great. But we really haven't had to use it yet, and you can just keep it at 75 so that the whole bus is at 75. It's really nice to have that temperature control. The build took about a year, let's say, give or take. And it cost around $40,000. Everything was challenging, but at the same time, that's kind of what makes it fun, you know? Like, if you're enjoying what you're doing, that challenge, when you get to the end of it, it's like hiking up a hill. It sucks, but when you get up there, it's worth it. We love the pneumatic opening, keeping it a school bus door, but, man, they're loud, they're leaky. So we ended up going with a RV door. Keypad, because all RV door keys are the same. We went with single-pane windows. Double-pane windows are twice as expensive, but there's a number of reasons why you want to get double-pane windows. Condensation is a big one. If I do it over, I'd spend the extra money on double-pane. Adding outlets everywhere. Why not have them everywhere? This is Mom's box. Her sewing machine. All her leather and stuff. Everything she needs to run her business is out of this box. I welded up some PVC pipe. They say there's two types of welders. There's welders and there's grinders. And if you come in here, you'll see I'm very much a grinder. It looks perfect after you grind it up, but when you're learning to weld, which you will with a school bus, don't be shy to just grind it all away. Back here is the mini man cave. This is all the tools to keep this bus running. Everything's run off of propane. We've been on the road for two months now. We still haven't refilled. We cook a lot of our meals outside. All the steaks, most of the meat goes on out here. And this big three burner, we can do multiple things at a time and it folds all up. We use it so often that it's got to be accessible and so we just throw it on the back of the Jeep. We've got our water, our mini split down below and routed all the wires up. We've got 40 gallons of gray tank and 100 gallons of fresh water mounted below the bus. People get worried about it freezing. Wrap everything in heat cord and heat pads and we haven't had any issues. We built this in the winter so it survived lots of freezing temperatures and we did pretty good. So we started when it was just the two of us in a Jeep. We took the Jeep all through Utah. We love adventuring and then with the growing family, that Jeep had to expand but we couldn't lose the Jeep. We had to have the Jeep towed behind the bus and it's made all the difference. You can set up, camp, but then go explore what you really want to explore. I think that's what most of the guys get a kick out of when they come up. They're like, we saw the rig, that looks great, but having the matching Hot Wheels car attached to the back, man, that's everything. We have 600 watts of solar and 600 amp hours down below. There's that chart, the more you F around, the more you find out. We've been, we're right here, so if I could do it over again for the same size and real estate of space, we'd have 1,200 watts up on top minimum and then the 600 amp hours in batteries below. Max Fan, got to have one, they're awesome. Starlink has really been awesome. You can pop it up without trees and you're off grid with everything you need. We are not roughing it in this thing. Chris is a photographer and so all we really need is an airport to have him fly off and do a job for a few days or a week, leave me at a nice campsite. For me, I work on the road, I work out of the bus. My website's easy to maintain wherever we are. The website's called Westerly USA. It's been great. It really affords us a lot and it's growing, which is nice and I get inspired by being on the road to bring new designs and stuff into the brand, so this is becoming normal. Yeah. Fast. And what a normal. What an incredible normal that's by the book so irresponsible and so out of the ordinary, but man, it feels so right.