Name: VAN TOUR after 2 years living in our TINY HOUSE on wheels | Eamon & Bec
Uploaded: 2021-03-10T07:03:12.000Z
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hey everybody we're Eamon and Bec and for the last two years we have lived

worked and travelled out of our self converted Sprinter van needless to say

it was time for some serious upgrades so today we're gonna give you a full tour

of what our van looks like now let's go check it out

so Eamon and I actually create videos every week all about this lifestyle what

it's really like to live in a van and travel around so make sure you subscribe

and join the community welcome to our home before we jump into our own van

build it's really important to remember that the reason you do a custom build is

because you get to prioritize exactly what it is that you want in a tiny house

so for Eamon and I we love hosting people which reminds me we always begin

by offering our guests a drink this can crusher is actually a new

addition to the van we can't quite kick Eamon''s addiction to Lacroix so this

will hopefully reduce the size of our waste anyways you guys it's really

important to keep your driver happy at all times so if my buddy wants Lacroix

he's gonna get some ginger ale oh thanks babe so here we are in the captain's

chair this is a 2008 sprinter and we actually had to replace the engine

when we were in Mexico last year so with sprinters they are great vans as long as

you keep them maintained regular oil changes there's no real major

modifications up here with the exception of a little bit of extra storage so I

really wanted a nice easy place to keep our drone that's not a drone and camera

accessories and equipment so we actually keep our microphone in here this one

here their drone everything organized ready to go I can pull that out quickly

get the shot we have the pull out curtain so that's what separates the cab fully

black out and then I keep some other little things like a quick access to a

headlamp you got to have a koozie and we'll move on to the rest of the van

I'd like to say that we split the driving 50/50 but the truth is this is

where I spend most of my time in the passenger seat so I've got sunglasses

emergency tampons that kind of thing up there this is my area you can always

find water bottles flashlights and the best part about this seat is it's

actually a swivel so I can go from driving to lounging in just a quick sec

having a swivel seat really helps to open up the space as we mentioned we

love to host people so it's not only an extra chair

it really helps kind of bring this area into the van give you an extra square

foot one of the big game changers when living in a van to make it really feel

like a house is having temperature control so for that we actually

installed a while ago a Espar d2 heater and we love this thing we've done two

Canadian winters in Toronto it's been minus 30 degrees outside and we can be warm and

comfortable in here once you slide the door open it does get a little bit of

chilly you got to wait to let the heater warm the place up but it's well

insulated and it makes a big difference in feeling like a little house our

fridge is double the size we had a 55 litre Dometic fridge for two years no

longer it's now 110 liters we are so looking forward to storing much more

food and also making our own ice in the van our goal with our van was to make it

feel as at home as possible for us and that meant having a swing fridge as

opposed to the chest fridges you often see in van builds where you're digging

to the bottom to find your leftover peppers or whatever you have in there so

this makes it feel right at home for us and also when I'm driving I can easily

open up the fridge grab a drink grab some snacks so we just love the fridge

we just wanted to increase the size and that's what we've done did I show you

where the ice goes did I tell you about us making ice now? Ice Ice Baby if you're

new around here you might not know that I actually do most of the cooking

10 of out 10! Wow! so the first thing that we loved is our

nice spice magnetic spice rack we got the large jar so we don't have to

refill them as often we actually went out and did a custom jar I found this

jar I bought a hot sauce that was in it and then put a magnet in the top and

that's for our garlic because there's just not big enough for us just gonna

interject here and say that Amon is a Top Chef and he is fine-tuned his skills

since living in the van because he's got limited space and resources he's made a

plant-based cut we've made a book and we are so proud of it if you guys are

interested in quick simple and nutritious ly delicious meals the book

will be linked here and in the description below so check it out check

it out back to the tour up here we store easy access items the things that we

grab a lot olive oil plays bowls cups you'll notice we only have two of each

but that's all we need two mugs two cups two smoothie cups three bowls we lost

the ball so we have a van cise strainer this guy you just punch open get that

out of here I thought that was pretty cool we have the most amazing chai tea

unbelievable company I think it's called chai wallah you can check that out while

Eamon does most of the cooking that leaves me to clean so gotta have room

for my full-size broom this was a year and a half almost two years in the

making friends I used to sweep with a little tiny things tiny house gets messy

fast but also cleans pretty fast so I'm sweeping pretty much all the time

whoa should we talk about my new rug I didn't even think about that this

beautiful baby I've also finally convinced Eamon to have some color in

the van have to be very careful not to get any red in here so this carpet is

from an Etsy shop called rug Basel and they're based in Toronto but I think

it's a Turkish vintage rug from like the 20s or 30s and it's beautiful I think it

really adds like some color and vibrance to our space we almost forgot to share

with you one of the coolest neatest trickiest little things we bought it to

the bin this handy-dandy table it's an outdoor

table so we're still working out the kinks of the new van here but while

we're hanging out outside there are many mornings when Amon and I will set up our

outdoor chairs and just kind of hang out so this is gonna be awesome for putting

our breakfasts or coffees teas we don't really drink all the elf ki beverages

all that much but you know never say never finish a corner down a little bit

there a but I love it I freaking love our new house in our first van build we

were time and money crunched so our cabinetry kind of reflected that we

didn't spend too much time on it which is why this time I really wanted to make

it special this cabinetry was all pieced out by a man painted by me and I'm super

excited about it I think it adds a really nice rustic DIY look to the house

these two are actually fake drawers don't tell anybody this was supposed to

be a cutlery drawer it did not work out r.i.p this is the first drawer we store

all of our cooking utensils in here tea towels and our utensil drawer hopefully

when we have a better sorting and this is going to be our big momma

we've got not only pots and pans our dish rack we've got dry food storage

popcorn in here rice this is kind of where everything goes hopefully it

doesn't get too messy too fast we didn't really change the main layout because we

love having a big sink and stove and that's all we could really fit in here

but yes we still have propane so we do a two burner stove fresh water filtered

water so we have a carbon and sediment filter on the little top and a little

soap dispenser that's a nice little touch especially if you want to keep

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