- Conversion
- Water / plumbing
- Storage
- Outside installations
- Kitchen
- Interior paneling
- Insulation / isolation
- Furniture
- Flooring
- Bathroom
- Awning
More cabinets means more storage! With a top cabinet in the kitchen we us all space available to make the most of the tiny house.
We built the top cabinet pretty much like we built the ...
Tiles in a Campervan - we add self-adhesive TicTacTiles looking like subway tiles to the wall behind our kitchenette!
For the backsplash behind the kitchen unit, we use self-adhesive wall ...
Mounting and installation of standard sink and faucet in the camper - what you need to know when it comes to the connection and the water system!
We ordered and returned so many sinks and ...
To be as self-sufficient as possible with the Camper, we spare ourselves the gas cooker and opt for the energy sources electricity (sun) and Diesel - that’s why we use a Diesel based camping ...
A nice, big kitchen has lots of workspace. Of course this is also possible in a minimalist mobile home or camper including all devices just like cooker, sink and faucet!
Our oakwood ...
Our self-built kitchen in the camper has everything you need in a kitchen: Cooker, sink, fridge and running water. Let’s check out the details of planning and building the kitchen ...
Self-built kitchen in our Mercedes Sprinter Campervan with everything you need: cooker, sink, fridge, storage and fresh running water!
The most difficult thing about a self-built ...
Our tiny house on wheels also has a washbasin and a shower in its bathroom! The extendable shower is a faucet and shower head at the same time - for inside as well as outside!
We already ...
Upcycling furniture - how we transformed our balcony table into a shower grid for the wetroom of our offroad Camper.
Making new from old - that what’s upcycling is about; upgrading old ...
Wetroom with shower and toilet in a Camper - we show the step-by-step installation of the Thetford Cassette Toilet C223-CS in the bathroom of our Sprinter Campervan!
After weighing the ...
The base of the bathroom in our Camper Van is the custom made Shower Tray made of stainless steel and the platform its installed on!!
As we already mentioned in the post about the ...
Our Campervan has a bathroom with a shower and toilet! To remove and clean the waste tank from the outside, let’s show the step-by-step installation of the Service Door.
The Thetford ...
If you need a „bathroom“ in a Camper or not is individually up to the builder of the Van. We want to add a shower & toilet so we build a wetroom in our Overland-Campervan!
Never have ...
Separation Toilet, Dry Toilet, Composting Toilet, Cassette Toilet, Porta Potti, Bucket Toilet, Urinella or just poo in the woods? There are lots of ways to go number one or number two while ...
Furniture like a closet, drawer and storage room - all of this belongs in a Camper Van, just small and compact but still with lots of room!
In Part 1/2 about the closet we already built ...
In every house belongs a closet, a drawer as well as a storage room and a shelf, of course. All of this but much smaller will fit in our Campervan, too!
Because of its compactness, ...
A snorkel on a 4x4 offroad campervan does not only look good and increases the fording depth, it also prevents the intake of dust & dirt and therefore protects the engine from it. We ...
The most underrated „wall“ in a campervan is probably the sliding door. To finalize the interior paneling we outfit our sliding door with poplar plywood and fabric covers as well as Tic Tac ...
Our self-converted campervan will have a flexible solution of a steplessly adjustable lift table which can turn the sitting- and dining area into a flat bed surface - lots of storage room ...
A full home needs a place to sit and a bed, of course. In our small house on wheels, the benches and table at daytime will be a flat bed surface by night!
Campervans are as individual as ...
Talking about a home’s walls you might think about side walls or maybe the ceiling but probably not doors. But in a campervan the doors are walls too, and the doors of the Sprinter also need ...
The living area of our Sprinter amounts to a good 6 square meters. Which means that the whole room is about as big as half a room of an apartment. We want to get maximum storage out of ...
Bring on the water! We want to be self-sufficient for a longer period of time with our van. So we especially need fresh and clean water. That is why we equip our Overland-Campervan with a ...
We keep it simple with the interior paneling of our Sprinter! For the walls of the camper, just like for the ceiling, we use a classic of van building: poplar plywood.
We already paneled ...
Cabin style or plain and simple - our choice for the interior paneling is the latter. We install white HPL coated poplar plywood to the ceiling of our campervan!
The interior paneling in ...
When choosing a floor covering, everyone probably mostly cares about the look. But when it comes to a campervan, characteristics like functionality and weight should not be disregarded. So ...
The new OSB3-panel is the base of the Sprinter-vanbuild, because all of the furniture will be built on top of it. It’s the base of the whole interior build and it’s now put into the ...
The floor panel is the base of the interior build of the Sprinter, because all of the furniture will be fastened to the plate - that’s why the build depends on a decent and stable floor ...
Thermal insulation for great room climate in the Sprinter Campervan no matter how hot or cold it is outside! We tell you about our practical experiences working with Armaflex and show you ...
In the winter you want it nice and warm but in the summer refreshingly cool. For the best possible thermal insulation, low heat loss outwards and an always pleasant room climate, we insulate ...
To minimize the general loud and rattling background noise of a cargo van, we will put up noise insulation in our Sprinter in the course of the van conversion.
If you ever drove a cargo ...
What you need to know about insulating a Campervan: useful and practical basics & facts
Why should you insulate your Campervan?
In cold areas (e.g. Alaska or Patagonia) the cold ...
The sub-construction is important and fundamental to install the new floor plate as well as the future furniture and interior of the Sprintervan. Our basis are spruce slats glued to the ...
It sure is a small surprise to find out what's beneath the original floor plate. Close your eyes and hope for the best? Rather not, because the floor is the base of the future interior build ...
If the doors do not close correctly anymore, they have to be readjusted. We had to change the door hinges to install our spare wheel holder, so they are actually the reason we had to ...
Before we could install our new spare wheel holder to the back door, we had to change the 270 degree door hinges of our Sprinter to 180 degree hinges. No sooner said than done!
Regarding ...
Fiamma offers a great range of accessories for campervan awnings, such as wind baffles, bars and hooks. We equipped our awning with LED lights on the awning arms.
The LED light strips ...
Because of the height of our 4WD Sprinter, the supporting legs of the awning Fiamma F65 S do not reach the ground! That’s why we installed the brackets to the wall of the vehicle.
To ...
We want to make our small living space as big as possible, that’s why we expand it by some outside space, like a patio. Therefore we equip our Sprinter with an awning: the Fiamma F65 ...
May there be more light: Front and back headlights, working headlights and now a LED Light Bar mounted to the roof of our Sprinter!
Big cities like our hometown Hamburg, Germany have ...
A “dirty” thing – waste water. To be self-sufficient with the campervan you need electricity as well as fresh and clean water. But where to but the dirty water? In the greywater tank!
Our ...
When we chose our vehicle, it was pretty clear that to be autarkic we need a small bathroom or a wetroom in our campervan. This is our shower tray made of stainless steel!
One of the main ...
To expand storage and save room inside of the vehicle, we want to fasten equipment e.g. sand ladders and canisters on the outside. The required brackets are called lashing tracks which we ...
We just wanted to maintain our working headlights because they were randomly screwed and glued to the roof. After removing the silicone we found a big, rusty hole! We had to find a solution ...
We planned our layout and now we have to realize the build – but in what order? Here is our step-by-step plan.
We have the vehicle and we have the windows - what’s next? Roughly speaking, ...
But we did not quite dare to drill and cut holes in our Sprinter all by ourselves.
When it comes to the conversion of the Sprinter, Jan is the expert. He already spent countless hours ...
May we introduce – our travel companion, our new home, our Sprinter! At first sight, it is just a used cargo van, but to us it is the base for our overland camper. Let us show you the layout ...
You know Murphy’s Law “Everything that can go wrong will go wrong” – at a short notice we had to manage quite some difficulties.
Maybe you read about our first obstacle with the insurance ...
…that worked well for us while buying our Sprinter.
This is the result of our research about what to pay attention to when you want to buy a used car, but you are literally a ...
After one year of planning, thinking and dreaming this one day pretty much changed our lives and paved the road to our future. We spontaneously drove to Bavaria to look at a Sprinter, and ...
Thinking about making this trip on the Pan-American Highway and finally deciding to really go ahead and do it, took us quite some time. But as soon as the decision was made we had to ask ...