Project HouseBus : Planing

According to the internet, it was Benjamin Franklin who said, “Failure to plan is planning to fail.” When you’re spending what is, to us, a lot of money, we want to make sure we get the plan right! 🙂

As a first step, we measured the bus and created a blueprint to work from.

Now, you might think that an IT guy like me would do this in software—but I don’t do CAD! So, Paper 1.1 and Pencil 1.3 had to be the tools of choice.

We then overlaid tracing paper to experiment with different floor plans. This is the layout we’re currently considering.

The next step will be to refine the details, focusing on the appliances and how they will all fit in.

Meanwhile, we’ve also started stripping out the bus. Here are a few photos of our prog