{"id":2562,"date":"2019-09-10T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diynfun.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:42:09","slug":"a-texas-man-started-to-transform-an-old-school-bus-into-a-home-check-out-the-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/a-texas-man-started-to-transform-an-old-school-bus-into-a-home-check-out-the-result\/","title":{"rendered":"A Texas Man Started to Transform an Old School Bus into a Home. Check Out The Result!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Talley is\na graphic designer living in Texas. He paid a lot of money every month for\nrent, but he finally got enough of this and started to work on something that\nwould change his life forever. He came up with the idea of transforming an old\nschool bus into his permanent home. He never built anything like this before,\nso it sure wasn\u2019t easy, but the result speaks for itself. Look at how the bus\nlooks like after the transformation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did he come up with this idea in the first place? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael was paying\n$1,200 for rent in a month. That\u2019s a lot of money that could have been spent on\nmore important things. He got fed up with his situation and started to think\nabout the solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Building a tiny home <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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He decided that he’ll try to build a tiny home for himself. That\u2019s when the idea of the school bus popped into his mind. It already has four walls and a roof, so it couldn\u2019t be hard to transform it to a liveable place. At that time he didn\u2019t know how big this project was, especially because he was a graphic designer and didn\u2019t know how to use power tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

He bought a school bus <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael was really\nlucky finding a school bus, because the Austin School District was selling ten\nbuses. Only a few people knew about this so there weren\u2019t so many bidders. He\nbought a bus for $2,200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The plans <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The plan was to convert the school bus into a livable house with a bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom and a living room also. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first problem <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Of course as the project was developing, there came a big problem which had to be solved. The height of the bus was six feet one inch, but Michael was much taller than this. He is six feet six inches, so it would have been impossible for him to stand up in the bus. He had to raise the roof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Moving into a tent <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael was so\npersistent in building his new home that in order to save some money, he moved\ninto a tent. He now lived for free and with the money he saved with not having\nto pay rent, he bought wood and other necessities for the bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The transformation starts <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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First he had to take out the seats from the bus, then he removed the paneling from the ceiling. He removed the insulation from underneath the panels too, but as it turned out, he could have left them as they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Raising the roof <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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He created a\nsystem of 2x4s and scaffolding to prepare the bus for raising the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t joke about it <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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At that time\nalmost everybody was making jokes about \u2019raising the roof\u2019 which Michael hated.\nBut now that it was really raised by an extra 20 inches, it was time to install\nthe custom metal ribs and bolt them in. But can you guess how he managed to\nraise that roof?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Cut the bus in half <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In order to raise\nthe roof, Michael and his friends had to cut the bus in half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Success! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It was hard work\nbut finally they managed to cut the bus in half without completely destroying\nit. The bus was now really spacious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Time to enclose <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The roof was now\nsecured so it was time to enclose the bus. Michael closed the middle section of\nthe bus with metal panels where the windows were. It was so hard that he even\ncut himself and it left him with a permanent scar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s basically an oven <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As you can see,\nthe bus looks like an oven right now, and it\u2019s also semi-bulletproof. Michael\nput up some christmas lights to set some mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A setback <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael got stuck\nin the mud with the bus which was a major setback. But it didn\u2019t stop him and\nafter he got the bus out of it, he started to install new insulation to keep\nthe temperature regulated on the inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Living in a tent <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As we mentioned\nabove, at that time he was living in a tent in one of his friend\u2019s farm outside\nAustin, Texas. He literally didn\u2019t pay a dime for living so it was a really\ngood way for him to collect some money. He commuted 40 minutes to work every\nday but it wasn\u2019t a big price to pay. And he was enjoying farm life in the\nmeantime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A big kitchen <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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He started working on the interiors. He built a frame for the couch and started working on the kitchen, which became more spacious than his previous one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let anything go to waste <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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He wanted to save some money so he used some of his old stuff in making the interiors. He rebuilt his old couch\u2019s frame and next to it he made a frame for the water storage system and for the bathroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

More problems <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When he was\nspraying insulation on the ceilings, he accidentlly sprayed his beard, too. He\nonly noticed a few hours later so he had to shave off all of it. After that\nincident he finished the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Solar panels on the roof <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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He even thought\nabout creating his own electricity. He installed solar panels on the roof, but\nit was the most dangerous tasks of all because of the heavy wind outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Finishing touches <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael used wood\nto finish the walls and the ceiling which he didn\u2019t have to buy. Fortunately he\nfound some reclaimed wood from a house from Hyde Park in Austin, from 1941. He\nflipped them upside down and used them for the walls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Spacious workspace <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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His new workspace he created for himself was even more big than he had at his rented apartement. He works as a graphic designer so it\u2019s absolutely essetial for thim to have a big desk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The bathroom <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael built a\nshower and the toilet in the school bus, too, but he doesn\u2019t really like to use\nthem. He likes to pee outside in the nature and he built an outdoor shower,\nwhich he uses every time when he doesn\u2019t shower in the gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Repainting <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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There came the\ntime for the finishing touches. Michael painted the bus white for merely one\nreason: he was living in Texas which is known for its warm and sunny weather. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It was a hard year for him <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Building the tiny\nhome took 5 months for Michael, and during that time he lost his girlfriend and\nhis job, also. His grandfather and his dog died, too. It was a really hard time\nfor him, but the original purpose of the project was completed. He now paid\nless than $100 a month for rent and utilities. He parked the bus in South\nAustin, in someone\u2019s yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Everything turned out fine <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In spite of losing his job on the way, he turned out to have a much better one. He got a job where he designs T-shirts for a living. Now he\u2019s working on his van so that he can travel around more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Talley is a graphic designer living in Texas. He paid a lot of money every month for rent, but he finally got enough of this and started to work on something that would change his life forever. He came up with the idea of transforming an old school bus into his permanent home. He never built anything like this before, so it sure wasn\u2019t easy, but the result speaks for itself. Look at how the bus looks like after the transformation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,108],"tags":[130,131,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diynfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}