Living on the road is not such a big deal nowadays with more and more people opting for this type of lifestyle. When they bought the land they currently live on, they couldn’t yet afford building a new house, so instead of doing so this couple from New Zealand decided they might as well turn an older Japanese truck into their home. Not only did it work, but they managed to turn it into some sort of a mountain cottage that looks incredible.
On the outside it might look a bit peculiar with a rather uncommon design, but once you step inside it literally is a gorgeous mountain cabin. And it even allegedly smells that way.
Globe trotter and petrolhead Matt Farah was the one to meet these people and decided he’ll interview them in order to find out more about their house on wheels.
The bed of this truck was replaced with a country home. To make that happen, first they welded a metal frame onto which they attached wood plates which act as walls. On and off, it took them a year and a half.
It appears the ideas belong to the guy, who was already accustomed with living like that since he stayed in a Ford Transit van for two years in England before moving back to his home country.
The truck-home is more than spacious since technically it’s a two-bedroom truck. To keep things as cheap as possible and avoid plastic materials, they used a lot of cypress-wood. They also have a nice wooden heater, a gas cooker and bathroom all functional and connected to the local line.
The materials needed for the house cost $2,200
In case you feel like these two are some hippies who went for a wooden house on wheels just because they still act like Woodstock youngsters, you should wait for the part when the fellow says it himself: “I just didn’t want to live inside a plastic box, it had to be natural materials. Not because I’m a hippie, it just smells, looks and feels nicer”. Since we can’t tell if that is true, we sure can imagine all that wood doesn’t just look well.
Best part is they could always detach the house and relocate if they wished to do so. It won’t go faster than 32 mph, but it will work. The 1986 Hino truck was reconditioned and according to the couple is working perfect. Besides the vehicle itself, the materials they used to finish the house were around $2,200, which by far makes this a bargain.
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