Vintage Airstream to Beautiful Tiny Home in 2 Months

Kent Griswold

4 years ago

Allison and James are two adventurous tiny home dwellers from opposite sides of the world (Newfoundland and Australia). They met while working at a remote health care center on an island in the Pacific Northwest and have been living an adventure-based lifestyle together in tiny dwellings ever since.

Home on land and sea

Currently, their home on wheels is a vintage Airstream that they converted completely themselves with minimal building experience. They also live part-time in their home with sails and during the summer months can be found cruising up and down the Pacific Coast in their 30-foot Catalina sailboat.

All about the Airstream

The Airstream is a 1968 Airstream Overlander. It’s a 26-foot trailer from the tongue to the tail, and the physical size of the actual living space of the trailer is about 22 1/2 feet from the front head to the rear, and encompasses about seven feet wide, making up 160 square feet of livable space. And it weighs in at about four and a half tons, I believe. It’s the dual-axle trailer. And really, it’s pretty quite simple in terms of how it’s all set up.

Where to Park?

We actually found the parking pad before we even landed on what we would be living in. So that was really, we were really happy about that because it was so tough to find a place to park.