7/25/2023 0 Comments Double decker bus house![]() ![]() The entrance and kitchen area of Whit Royal Scott's two storey bus tiny house conversion. Before seeing the bus, I paid $1,000 upfront for it. He told me that I would love it, and although it had low ceilings, I would be able to renovate them. So, I contacted the owner, who lived in Vancouver. To me, these British "double decker" buses are cool and nostalgic. I played ultimate frisbee and I remember looking for buses that I could get for my frisbee team, for us to drive around in. In college, I wanted to own a bus like this. I like working on out-of-the-box projects. ![]() where they call them "double decker buses" and instantly knew that I needed it. In October 2021, I was looking for more vans to convert and sell, and I came across a two storey bus from the U.K. During the pandemic, the van and bus business took off as people weren't allowed to fly out, so it seemed like everybody wanted to be on the road. Whilst I was converting the van, I posted it on Instagram and a friend of mine asked if I could help him convert two vans into tiny homes. I couldn't fly over to see Amber, so I bought a van, converted it, and drove it down to Austin. Whitney Scott, before renovating the upper deck of his bus. Eventually we got married on New Year's Eve 2021. After those first two visits I started making the trek back-and-forth between Portland and Austin regularly. I was divorced with two kids and we all hit it off spending time together that weekend, which happened to be the weekend of my daughter's fourth birthday.Īmber and I started speaking via FaceTime, then she came out for a visit to Portland again, and after that I went to visit her in Austin. Her name was Amber, and she came with her daughter. Whilst helping my friend in 2019, I had an Airbnb guest stay in the tiny house in my backyard. Luckily, I had a friend who was a general contractor, and he asked if I would help him with demolition. I didn't know what I was going to do next. The tiny house took a year to build and after it was finished, we parked it in my backyard in Portland. We both took out credit cards and said that one of us would buy the trailer, and the other would buy the lumber. So, we decided to build a tiny house on wheels. We were interested in the idea of building a treehouse to rent as an Airbnb property, but we didn't have the actual property to build it on. Once we started, I realized that building and renovating tiny houses, vans and sheds was more fun than anything I had been doing previously.Īs we were working on my garage that year, we started talking about other projects. Cody had an engineering degree, which helped me feel confident in my carpentry work. In 2016, I met a friend called Cody, who helped me renovate my garage into a shop. In 2012, I moved to Portland, Oregon because it felt more spacious than where I was living, and because the mother of my children, and her family, lived there. Then, after college, I worked in video production for 10 years, but I became burned out from constantly sitting behind a desk. I would often help build theater sets in junior high, high school, and college. ![]() I grew up in Claremont, a city on the edge of Los Angeles, California and my dad taught as an elementary school teacher and amateur carpenter, so he taught me carpentry. I had been interested in building and renovating tiny houses for years. ![]()
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