Beautiful Ford Transit Build w/ Great OVEN!

I'm here at the Colorado band life gathering and I have found a really beautiful build out that I want to show you so let's go check it out [Music] [Applause] hey guys I'm Kristin my lovely home where the road forks on Instagram me and my two pups we travel a full time in our Ford Transit 250 medium 148 wheelbase yes - come on in this detail right here is one of my favorite things my best friend drew this for me and there's us in the center there and she wrote me the sweetest letter about how home is where the heart is and so she was so happy for me that I will always have my home with my heart and so she'd do that so one of my favorite accents are these hooks no these are the light switches Oh so these turn on different lights and I can control them from here and in the back so in case I'm too lazy to walk three feet up to the front one of my favorite features here in the van is the sliding door this is just so huge for one reason or three reasons really I have a full-length mirror which is amazing to be able to get myself you know um it slides open and then it locks into place with this little key just locks in for when I'm driving um but if you're standing here right now you could feel the heat wave coming in and so it just keeps the heat out which is huge when I have dogs that's so important and so I absolutely love that also from the front if you were to look at it it looks just like a contractor's man it's just a grey wall so that kind of adds a little bit more stealth to it helps me stay a little safer also if someone were to break in in the front it gives me a few moments to react if I need to love my open shelves concept here I mean that's not very organized but I love being able to just like pull out whatever I need moment and I'll have to dig around for it here I just have a regular dorm room fridge and freezer it works great for me I know a lot of people are conflicted on it but I really like it it helps me kind of feel more homely then that Dometic in the salon I really like that my induction stove just pops it out puts on top I didn't want to put it built-in on the countertop because I wanted all this open space to cook cut veggies whatever and just more storage for utensils we have this locking mechanism so it they won't come out while I'm driving so they kinda have to push them into place on this side is where I have my electric oven so my whole solar system is built around this oven so it does these I'm very easy okay so it slides out and then I have to pick it up and put it out on top so I can bake and it's actually an artificial intelligent oven so if I put like chocolate chip cookie dough inside it will actually ask me if I'm cook baking chocolate chip so it has a camera inside so I can do like time-lapse videos on the beam it's a really cool oven I really love it so it's not just like a convection oven it truly is a full oven under here is just storage but I also have my toilet so not probably the most sanitary two ways to combine things but it's got the shelf mm-hmm you do what you can in the van this side is just you know cleaning supplies water my tanks are here my 12-volt water pump isn't right in here as well the farmhouse sink it's beautiful thank you I work for a faucet company I work for a Delta Faucet company so it's kind of how I was able to get such a lovely faucet got that employee discount but it has three features like regular spray and then bubble oh yeah kind of cool here we have this shower so I originally did it for the dog so I could shower them off after hike but it works for me as well so I love that feature and have these outdoor leashes for the dogs that way while I'm working you know or cooking or whatever they can be outside and I don't have to worry about them running off or anything like that my water supply is here just fill that up it holds 21 gallons of fresh water and 15 gallons of greywater this is in case I want to work outside I have the option this outdoor table that slides out also I like baking cake so I can like decorate the cakes here if I wanted to and it pops up and I have some storage inside it's not very well organized yet but it works for now here I have my lagoon table and it swivels around I'm sure you've seen it before I love it it also adds if I swivel it this way I have all this countertop space to like cook wet and it's just it's awesome I love having it speaking of countertop space something I did not show you was here to the side so I can have even more as you can tell they love baking cooking so countertop space with super important not just locks in place on this side is electrical and bedding and shoes and I'm just pods and ends things so I just move these hidden goodies right there so here we have my beddings on this side just a few things um kind of hard to show my electrical stuff because this is actually a box that pulls out and everything is underneath so I have a 3000 watt inverter here I have two massive batteries underneath pretty hair the solar converter as you can see like the bench mode is good but it is a lot of hassle to get into things mm-hmm so it's a love-hate relationship here I have kind of what I consider my closet but this this is where my water tanks go to mm-hmm and then I use my base packing cubes for everything and I have some vacuum sealed bags in here for the bulkier clothes truthfully I probably have way too many clothes but I've only been in the van five weeks so I figured by the end of the year I agree evaluate and get rid of what I don't mean so the way that the bed works when I want to put it into bed mode is here I have these slats and they pull out and they actually lock into place here so I have them on both of these and then I'm just gonna pop this down mm-hmm so you have to take your table mount so this would be removed and then what happens is these cushions come into the center right and it creates a queen-size bed suite oh yeah I do have a full queen-size bed so it's really nice the table sometimes is annoying to set it up and down so I would say say I mostly stay in bed mode I really like being in the bed mode and the dogs when I'm traveling driving they prefer being in the bed as well so yes this is our homestay home nice I love it it is so beautiful and so tell us about your build like the process um so I want the company called next garage they are in Indianapolis and I just I don't have the skills I wanted it to feel as homely as possible and I've always been inspired by Joanna Gaines so um like Magnolia farms and all that so it kind of was inspired by the dark wood and I wanted to bring the outside in almost so that's where the green backsplash of the tile even to the green kettle pot I just really wanted the greenery needs to be brought into my home so I also have this skylight which since I didn't have side windows I could have added them but I decided I want to be able to look up at the stars at night and I felt like it would give me more privacy on the sides that way I could still enjoy the sunlight from the top and I just I loved it so much it can actually be like right here these unclip and it I can remove the glass all the way and so I can stand through it um yeah so it really helps me bring the outside in especially at night and I love that nice and so do you build your bed do you ever sleep on just part of it or do you build the whole things yeah so if I'm being extra lazy sometimes I will just move that to one side and sleep on on one side mm-hmm especially if it's like when I'm just tired yeah so I mean it is enough it's smaller than a twin sized bed but it fits me I sleep pretty tight anyways mm-hmm it sleeps me just fine and the dogs sleep on the other side what made you decide to do been like am I such a loaded question I mean I think similar to everyone that has stuck in the nine-to-five world the corporate lifestyle and I just wanted something different and I always wanted to travel internationally full-time and live out of like hostels in a backpack but I had two dogs and I believe that when you get a dog you get them for life there's no giving it back it's a lifetime commitment I believe so I was thinking how can i how can I combine my backpack lifestyle with my dogs and that's where van life came came into play it's kind of my big backpack if you will and I was blessed that my job I gave them a proposal about letting me work remote and they said yes so I had just go back to part-time but that's all right so I'm working part-time fully on the road and it really has been such a blessing to be able to do what I love all the time awesome yeah share your social again where the road forks nice and that's Instagram yeah okay excellent thank you so much for showing us your beautiful home Oh glad you guys could see it thanks for joining us this is Joni with the Gallivan enjoy your journey [Music]

Channel: TheGalavan

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Keywords: thegalavan, solo female vanlife, full-time vanlife, Intentional nomad, van tour, van life, van conversion, ford transit, transit van conversion, van build, baking in a van, transit vanlife, colorado vanlife gathering, vanlife with june oven, june oven on solar, off grid, vanlife tour, ford transit van conversion, solo female van dweller

Id: ionts0scA6I

Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 21 2019