This Welsh carpenter transformed a former horse box truck into a tiny home and wellness retreat — and the results are nothing short of dazzling.
Using mostly recycled materials, he turned an old wagon into a relaxing refuge.
“Most people think it’s ridiculous and think it’s totally impractical,” 44-year-old Guy Williams told Caters of his DIY mobile residence, which features a lounge, a dining room, a bedroom and the pièce de résistance: a bathroom featuring a heated Jacuzzi tub.
“I tend to agree,” he said of the hate on what he calls his “chalet on wheels,” but “it’s their faces I love to see when I show them there’s a Jacuzzi bath under the floor.”
As well, the tricked-out truck has a home theater with surround sound, a log burner, a full kitchen, a king-sized bed and underfloor heating.
To create it, he cleverly reused items like an upcycled dresser for the base of the kitchen unit, old roofing slates for floor tiles and an old mattress for the sofa.
The project took him several months, a timeline that impresses many.
“I built it in 12 weeks, and although everyone gasps when I tell them that, I worked on it tirelessly for 15 hours a day, seven days a week,” he explained. “I built it during lockdown with the hope that I could escape to the Alps once it was over, and that’s what I did.”
Indeed, after completing his wheeled abode, Williams was able to not only travel Europe in it but sell his former, un-wheeled house — where the monthly mortgage bills were more than he could afford — and get out of debt.
Now without that financial burden, the former chartered surveyor has been able to follow his passion of doing creative carpentry full-time and makes his money creating other tiny homes.
“On selling the house, I paid off all my debts, bought an old horse box, and that’s where it all started,” Williams said. “Now debt-free with cash in the bank, I went about converting vans for a living.”
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