0:02 we're jazz and crystal and this is bella
0:04 and izzy we live in our diy tiny home on wheels
0:05 wheels
0:07 which has brought us to some
0:08 unbelievable places
0:10 we've paused our adventures to tackle
0:12 van renovations
0:14 join us this week as we remodel our
0:16 kitchen experience some setbacks
0:18 and start to worry we won't beat the
0:20 snow and don't forget to hit the
0:43 it's pretty big oh my goodness
0:46 it's gonna fit right you did the
0:48 measurements girl i can't wait to do
0:56 whoa that was easy today's projects are
0:57 the kitchen we're doing the counter
0:58 we're installing the sink and the water
0:59 tank it might be
1:02 today next few days actually it's going
1:03 to take a lot longer
1:05 and the reason that we're redoing this
1:06 part of the kitchen is because we
1:08 since we moved into the van and figured
1:09 out what works for us we decided we want
1:11 a stationary water tank
1:13 and that removing the jugs every week
1:15 was one taking up too much space
1:17 you always crystal's arms yeah she's the
1:19 water person i was the water lady
1:21 and then with the counter it was warping
1:22 cracking so we're just gonna condense
1:23 the kitchen
1:25 and we have a bigger sink that way we have
1:26 have
1:29 i have more space to do the dishes thank you
1:30 you
1:32 it's true she does all the dishes i have
1:34 a pretty good van mate
1:40 me too van wyk [Music]
1:48 [Music]
2:20 [Music]
2:22 it doesn't look like the wooden flush
2:24 yeah like these aren't even fatty there
2:30 because i knew you had a craving so i
2:36 sweet chili just because it's vegan
2:41 means it's delicious though but it's toy story
2:43 story
2:44 you have like the whole tongue is
2:46 tingling so we just went to go put the
2:47 kitchen together
2:49 and because we didn't have the proper
2:50 saw we couldn't get
2:53 anything to be a 90 degree angle so now
2:55 we really have to start over and measure
2:56 everything again because
2:58 we now have the proper saw thanks to my uncle
2:59 uncle
3:04 check out this beast [Music]
3:32 okay this brilliant happier now okay
3:35 live things got heated
3:36 is the camera can they give us yes or no
3:38 i think so
3:40 yeah things did get hit i was overview
3:41 in the kitchen
3:43 i said let's bring the old one back in
3:44 we wanted to bring the old kitchen back home
3:45 home
3:49 it ain't coming home it's nice to see so
3:50 many people walking today oh no it's a
4:09 the day just keeps getting a little bit
4:11 more frustrating as we're making
4:14 the most rookie rookie mistakes like the
4:17 rookies mistakes yeah like this is so silly
4:17 silly
4:19 it's getting frustrating um we just
4:22 really excitedly decided to make our
4:24 kitchen structure wider not wider but like
4:25 like
4:26 in line with everything because we
4:28 thought that's how it used to be wider
4:29 than we were planning because we
4:31 cut the counter already and so obviously
4:32 it might be wider than the counter and
4:34 we wanted to counter 20 because then it
4:35 could fit in the planer which makes it
4:37 look nicer
4:39 and we just built our kitchen way too big
4:41 big
4:44 yep at least i mean the third time's the
4:45 charm right so
4:46 we're on to making the kitchen for the
4:48 third time today you just want to laugh
4:50 about it like i want to be mad but i'm
4:52 just like
4:55 it's so silly i know
4:58 okay so we'll see y'all when it's done
5:00 still eating chips for a meal
5:04 it's now dinner time and we [Music]
5:05 [Music]
5:09 did it finally
5:11 want to tell them what we did eight
5:12 hours later
5:14 after eight hours we've got a place for
5:15 our water tank
5:18 we've built a structure for our what is this
5:18 this
5:22 kitchen and then we've got a counter top
5:24 which we have yet to sand finish
5:26 everything it's totally raw
5:31 this is our sink possible placement
5:34 yeah welcome back vlog today we
5:37 are feeling the pressure we have a lot
5:38 of things to do
5:41 we are cramming to get some progress
5:43 it is thanksgiving weekend in canada so
5:45 we spent time with our family
5:48 and we had a delicious dinner more of a feast
5:48 feast
5:51 now we're paying for it want to focus
5:52 hard today
5:54 because we feel like we haven't made
5:56 well i don't know do you feel like that
5:58 we killed the electrical system yeah
6:00 this kitchen and plumbing is a whole new story
6:00 story
6:02 i will trade someone their electrical
6:03 system if they want to do our kitchen
6:05 for us
6:08 uh so we're gonna get it done yeah we
6:10 always end up dead getting it done
6:11 this might be a few days late so we're
6:14 starting with cutting the hole for the
6:17 sink and then the stove and then cutting
6:19 the extra counter that's gonna flip up
6:20 over here
6:23 and then making this structure
6:27 more sturdy so we can add drawers yeah
6:44 [Music] i
6:46 i thought
6:50 [Applause] [Music]
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7:17 can't wait to cook in here
7:28 time to eat there's three meals in this life
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8:55 haven't noticed
8:57 we have the piece of wood the right way
8:59 this time
9:09 we're ready a wall for the side of our
9:10 kitchen and because
9:12 the wall on the van is not straight we
9:15 need to like scribe it
9:18 and make sure that it fits
9:20 flushly flush against the circular shape
9:21 of the wall
9:34 [Music] yes
9:36 yes [Music]
9:46 remember how we said it was canadian
9:47 thanksgiving this weekend
9:49 well there's leftovers and we are
9:51 definitely eating like queens today
9:56 and we're back to work now what are we
9:57 on to
10:00 now we're on to the fittings for our new
10:02 42 gallon water tank
10:05 and plumbing is always more challenging
10:08 for us than anything else so
10:09 yeah it's gonna probably take a while as
10:11 well and now we're just gonna
10:14 fiddle around with this water tank it
10:15 didn't take us that long at home depot to
10:16 to
10:18 put all the pieces together i don't know
10:19 if that's because we actually brought
10:22 our water tank so it made it easier
10:23 or because we're doing it completely
10:25 wrong but i guess we'll find out when we
10:26 put some water in it
10:28 eh we're just going to walk you through
10:30 what we're doing under here under our kitchen
10:30 kitchen
10:33 just take this after you cut it plop it
10:35 in here
10:38 and see and then to take it apart you
10:40 just push down
10:42 so you pull it seems really simple like
10:44 that's why it seems too simple to be
10:45 true yeah
10:48 but we did our breather pipe yeah
10:51 so one of the four connections done time
11:12 [Music] wow
11:19 crystal's just whipping up these nice
11:21 little brackets
11:24 so that way our water tank doesn't slide
11:25 away because 42
11:28 42 gallons is a lot of water we actually
11:32 lot away how much is it again 350 pounds
11:34 350 pounds folks we actually got 42
11:36 gallons though because we don't plan on
11:37 actually filling it up
11:39 all the way that's like a lot of water
11:40 tanks you actually can't fill them to
11:41 the top
11:43 so you end up losing a couple gallons
11:45 and it wasn't that much bigger and it fit
11:45 fit
11:48 really nice and there's four of us so these
11:49 these
11:50 hopefully and obviously the wall and the
11:52 structure are gonna help it stay in place
11:53 place
11:55 and then we've just added some felt
11:57 right here so it doesn't rub up against it
11:58 it
12:00 we're also putting it in the middle of
12:03 our axles and i'm not sure if that
12:05 makes it better so correct me or tell me
12:07 if i'm right or wrong
12:09 but it because it's in the middle of
12:11 both wheels i think about it's better on
12:12 the shocks it's not true
12:14 yeah the van's gonna be happier i mean
12:16 we already take her on some pretty
12:20 gnarly roads so i'd say we are not clean workers
12:21 workers
12:24 we got everything done except to the pump
12:24 pump
12:29 because we're not missing something but
12:31 we got the wrong size i'm about the
12:32 wrong health shape
12:34 yeah we got the wrong piece we bought
12:36 threaded at least we got
12:57 super happy with how this kitchen is
12:59 turning out i can't wait to
13:02 finish it all literally it's so nice i
13:03 think i'm more obsessed with how
13:06 open our door is now if you are getting
13:07 an old sprinter
13:10 make sure you leave your door open
13:11 that's actually
13:14 like a huge regret like yeah i think we
13:16 thought that like oh like we don't need
13:17 the full door but like
13:21 you really do it's so nice yeah
13:24 like it's super nice like i am literally
13:26 staring at an awe right now in my door
13:28 because the 06s are so much smaller you
13:30 want to be able to have all that so
13:32 if you can build even something small
13:33 just don't make it all the way up it
13:34 just feels so
13:38 enclosed and not so welcoming and like
13:40 now you could just jump in and jump out
13:42 we had suit we could all four of us can
14:00 [Music] morning
14:03 morning
14:05 we're actually gonna start going back to
14:06 the benches today
14:08 it's gonna be flip floppy because
14:10 there's just so many little tasks
14:13 but because we're making our like table
14:14 dinette in
14:17 the back here out of the same slot as
14:18 our counter
14:19 we want to have them all cut and perfect
14:21 so that way when we finish the counters
14:23 we're not finishing one counter and then
14:24 another counter
14:26 you know just doesn't make sense so
14:27 we're measuring up our old counter
14:29 because we really like the length of it
14:31 it could host a lot of people
14:32 it is a little bit thinner so it might
14:34 make it a bit longer
14:35 and that way we can even have more
14:38 friends over so crystal's measuring
14:39 right now
14:40 and it's just gonna go right in the
14:56 [Music]
14:57 that's what i've been thinking this is
15:10 also quick tip if you are making any
15:12 holes in your counter you actually
15:13 always want to
15:15 make the hole on your good side believe
15:16 it or not because i'll show you what the
15:18 bottom side looks like compared to the
15:19 top side that's our top side
15:25 i'm going to tackle the plumbing well
15:28 chris is gonna tackle our backsplash
15:29 remember yesterday when i said you could
15:31 just like pull these apart don't do that
15:33 it actually makes them way weaker
15:35 we had an amazing customer service at
15:37 home depot yesterday
15:39 and the worker told us all about these
15:40 little bites
15:42 and guess what now they're going to be
15:43 secure because we bought
15:46 all new ones because i like to pull them
15:48 all apart before
15:54 how many pieces did we buy at home do
15:57 you probably die and guess what
15:59 none of it fits i think it's the most
16:01 i've laughed all day we are struggling
16:03 it's a tough day today i'll be right
16:10 i'm back and i got lots of pieces
16:12 i brought in the piece so i think i have
16:14 everything right
16:18 and we got some footlongs i feel like
16:20 we've done more eating in this vlog than
16:22 building but probably wrong i think i'm
16:24 downgrading everything we've done
16:26 i can't believe i just did that i went
16:28 to the hardware store and i brought the piece
16:29 piece
16:32 that goes in the pump with the tubing
16:33 and i forgot it there
16:35 i have all the pieces to hook up to the
16:37 tank but now
16:40 what guess what
16:43 i forgot our piece at the hardware store
16:47 the piece i brought this date actually
16:49 can get worse
16:52 are you serious yeah i just checked the car
16:53 car
16:55 i don't know how no idea where you put it
16:56 it
17:00 should we just call it a week yeah
17:02 like i'm over this i went through like
17:04 so many motions when you left i was like
17:05 oh i'm fine
17:08 like oh i'm crying like i'm sad
17:11 fan belts are hard honestly how hard it
17:12 is to build a video kudos to anyone
17:14 that's doing themselves
17:18 sometimes even though not much is going
17:19 right we're gonna hustle through the
17:21 night because i honestly believe in us
17:24 even though all odds are against us
17:25 right now but
17:27 i think we got it oh getting the kitchen
17:28 counters pretty
17:32 nobody likes wood boogies [Music]
17:45 the universe has honestly just been
17:47 giving us sign after sign
17:49 to just take a break it's all gonna be okay
17:50 okay
17:53 and we didn't listen
