When you are working on your DIY van conversion, one of the important steps is deciding how many windows you want in your van. It’s important to decide where you want the windows, as this can really help with ventilation throughout the van. Here is how to install van conversion windows, with our complete step-by-step…
Whether you’re planning to live in a van or RV, or just want a camping fridge to take in your car on some road trips, keeping your food cold is a necessary task for a drive. Unfortunately you can’t just use any fridge in your van or car, you’ll need a 12v refrigerator. What is a…
Harvest Hosts Review On our recent trip to Utah, we decided to sign up for Harvest Hosts to give a shot. We knew there are lots of rv campgrounds and free camping spots, but having the luxury of having a nice location like a winery or museum was enticing. Well, we ended up using it…
Now that we have all of the structure and exterior of the van build complete, we can finally move onto the inside of the van! After installing the subfloor, the first thing we did was build our camper bed. We had actually planned to do the open layout in the van, with the benches that…
After moving into our campervan full time (I know, right?), there have been some things we’ve been needing and wanting to make our van life more efficient and more organized. For those who live in a RV or campervan (or spend a lot of time), there’s not a lot of space to have extra things…
After installing the roof fans and insulating our campervan it’s time to install the ceiling. Installing the ceiling of our Promaster campervan was fairly easy. We knew we wanted a light but sturdy ceiling, so we found a nice tongue and groove at our local building materials store. Tongue and groove is easy to install,…
What is the best campervan insulation? Once we bought our Promaster van, we had a lot of research to do. We have never done anything to this level so everything that we are doing, we are learning on the fly. Before we began the van conversion, we knew we had to start with insulation. If…
Are you wanting to roadtrip around the US? Wanting to try out vanlife before fulling commiting? Traveling around in a campervan is getting more and more popular, test us, we recently bought a van to convert to a campervan. Why not rent a campervan for your next road trip to test the waters and see…
How to Install a Roof Vent Fan If you plan on spending any amount of time in your campervan or RV, we highly suggest that you install a roof vent for air to circulate. If you aren’t hooked up to power or aren’t able to run your air-conditioning all day, you should install a RV…
So we did something crazy. Something that we’ve been talking about for awhile and we finally pulled the trigger. WE BOUGHT A VAN! Yes, its been a few months since we’ve made the decision and we are loving it so far. And we haven’t even started the conversion process. We’re planning to convert our van into a…