This is one family’s school bus conversion.
They took an American school bus and turned it into a custom tiny home on wheels.
Now it can actually sleep up to six people comfortably! In fact, they’ve turned the bus into a tiny hostel on wheels where they can hosts guests as they travel!
Have you considered using a bus to build your own tiny (motor)home?
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This is a $20k school bus tiny home. It’s a 1990 Chevy-Thomas bus with 181k miles. The bus is currently located in North Carolina. Please enjoy, learn more, and re-share below. Thank you!
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This is the Green Cedar Bus Tiny Home.
It was built by Josiah Deor-Williams, the son of a woodworker.
Inside, you’ll find a living area, full kitchen, bedroom, loft, fireplace, lots of storage, and more.
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This is the story of a couple’s tiny house bus conversion.
When their landlord hiked up their rent, they decided to look into alternative living solutions.
That’s when they started considering tiny houses, but ended up deciding on a converted school bus (which cost them less too).
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This is a 1979 school bus conversion for sale near Portland, Oregon.
It’s 36′ long and features a 392 International V8 engine.
Appliances are run from propane and it features an 80 gallon propane tank.
If it were mine, I’d get busy adding a solar power system to it along with some holdings tanks. How about you?
The asking price is only $9,995. Please enjoy, learn more, and re-share below. Thank you!
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This teen converts this old school bus into a $5,600 off-grid motorhome that serves as the young man’s dorm. Yes, a rolling dorm!
Inside, you’ll find an open floor plan with a desk, bench seat, table area, refrigerator and a sofa bed. The home runs on solar power.
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This is Chelle’s school bus conversion!
From the outside this looks like a standard yellow school bus you once spent hours on in elementary school, but take a step inside and you’ll forget all about the back-of-the-bus bullies!
Chelle described herself as a 55-year-old homemaker who was searching for a way to build an off-grid tiny house when this bus fell in her lap. She transformed it into a home with dark wood floors, fun dressers, a mini fridge, toaster oven, coffee maker, and an electric wood burning stove. Her bed sits in the back and she has curtains to section off her living areas and cover the bus’s many windows. It’s actually illegal to have a yellow bus in some states, so Chelle said she will repaint it soon so she can continue traveling!
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This is one man’s fantastic school bus-turned-DIY-motorhome.
From the outside, you can see vestiges of the house’s former life as a vehicle for transporting students, but the exterior of the bus has been painted burgundy. The body of the van has been enveloped in wood-siding to give a more “house-like” look and feel. The coolest part of this bus transformation? It runs off of vegetable oil!
When you go inside, you’ll find beautiful fir floors and an entirely wooded home. The roof has been cut off of the bus, allowing for a 2×4 construction house with a taller ceiling to be built in its place. The bus includes a wood stove and right next to the home’s heating source is a door that leads below the bus where he can load wood from the outside to fuel the fire. During the winter, he heats his house and water with an antique-looking oven, but during the summer, he has a smaller stove and oven that runs off propane. He has a typical RV water tank system, with grey water going into one tank and black water into the other. His stand-up shower has a beautiful pebble floor and a skylight for brightness. Watch the video below for more details!
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Just wanted to let you know about this GMC school bus to motorhome (RV) conversion that’s for sale right now (UPDATE: SOLD) in the Albany, New York area. It’s listed on Craigslist right now and I found it thanks to one of our awesome readers, Comet. Thanks, Comet!
It’s a 2003 GMC Savanna 3500 with a 5.7L gas V8 and it has around 200,000 miles on it. The current owners converted it into an RV themselves. They owned and lived in it for two years so far and have put 3,000 miles on it, according to the listing. They even installed a receiver hitch on the rear of the bus to tow their SUV with it on their travels.
Inside you’ll find a basic kitchen area, sleeping area, and plenty of shelving to store your stuff. The listing says that they’re selling because they’d like something a little bigger. Asking price WAS $4,500.
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