Our latest challenge is set: we want to convert a van into a camper for our next trips! Why? Again and again the idea came to us during our trip to Asia in 2017. As great as we found the 11 months in Asia, two points that annoyed us the longer the more were on the one...

And the Winner is....Mercedes-Benz Sprinter! Well, after looking at a few (hundreds) of vehicles online and test driving a few of them, we decide on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 314 CDI. Read here how we selected the perfect vehicle for us with our requirements. The...

There are 1000 and 1 variants on how to plan and design the layout of a camper. We have looked at many variants on Pinterest and Instagram and picked individual ideas from everywhere that we liked, and which seemed useful to us. Fortunately, Mimi really enjoys this...

All beginnings are hard, or in our case dirty. The bus is basically in good condition, but it was used as a delivery van, and this is clearly visible. So, before we get to the actual camper construction, we first have to disassemble everything unnecessary and clean...

Heavy insulation foil for a van conversion, yes or no? Some swear by it, others think it's just extra weight that can be used for other things during the conversion.We decided in favor of it. Now in retrospect, we are already a few weeks on the road with the bus, we...

As we already wrote in the post Vanconversion #3: Mercedes Sprinter Layout Planning, the topic of stealth camping is a big deal for us. Therefore, we deliberately chose a van without side windows and also without rear windows. But to have daylight in our camper, we...

The question we have to ask ourselves at the beginning of our van conversion is the following: How can we attach our new interior to the car? Respectively how must our supporting construction (SC) look like?Choice of material We have approached the implementation from...

With the insulation we continue our conversion of the van. We decided to use a rubber foam mat specially developed for the vehicle interior. This material has very good heat-insulating properties and is also self-adhesive on the back, so that the processing is easier...

On our Mercedes Sprinter, the floor of the loading area is corrugated. Accordingly, we already have a profile that we can use to accommodate the insulation. At the same time, however, installing the insulation makes the surface almost impassable, because the...

After the interior floor is finished, the right time has come to develop and install our own partition walls to the driver's cab as well as an additional shelf above the driver's cab.Partition walls to the driver's cabin For our van we want to leave the driver's cabin...

For our cozy interior atmosphere, we decide to fix light wood paneling on the side walls as well as the ceiling of our living room. In order to be able to install the paneling in one big sitting on a Saturday, a little preparatory work is necessary. When we cover all...

For comfortable nights we need a comfortable bed. This post on our van conversion is all about the bedroom in the van. Even before the construction, we have to decide if we want to make an otherwise usable bed area or not. Here, our test runs with other campervans...

We want to figuratively convert our van into a 2-bedroom apartment. For us, that means we want to separate the bed a bit from the front of the van with partitions. So, on one side of the passageway to the bed, we're building in a partition to what will later become...

Now that the first couple of fixed furniture like the bed structure, partition and cabinet are finished, the next elements for installation are coming. For this blogpost, these are the bench seat with the height-adjustable dining table.The bench In order to achieve a...

After some big installations are already done, the next step is the construction and installation of the kitchen. On one hand we build a wall unit and on the other hand we build the kitchen unit with stove, sink, storage space as well as waste disposal. In the next...