Texas Man Builds Home of His Dreams With Nothing But an Old School Bus and $2,200

He started modifyingthe school bus in September 2015. He managed to brave the heat and the cold in Texas. But a year later, he was done. However, the financial drain was higher than the cost of the bus.

Talley decided to get rid of the original yellow color of the bus by painting over it with white Rust-Oleum. But it wasn’t just for looks that he chose this color.

Everyone has their own idea of what a dream home should look like. There’s no right or wrong either. It can be as lavish and outlandish as a celebrity home, or a tiny little cabin in the woods. But most people wouldn’t have envisioned living in a home with wheels.

But that’s exactly what happened when a man built his dream home out of a school bus.

He Never Built Anything In His Life

Michael Talley had painted a couple of houses when he went on mission trips in the past. He even helped install a few plastic lattices. But that was it.

“I have never built anything,” he confessed on Imgur. So how was he going to pull this off? It’s not like he was playing around with paper and glue. He actually wanted to build a house!

He Had Two Dreams

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There were two things that Talley wanted to achieve. He wanted to travel around the world, but he always envisioned himself building a tiny house.

However, he had a background in graphic design and illustration. How would these skills help him build his dream home?

Living In The Country

In order to make his dreams come true, Talley had to make a radical change in his life. “I sold all my possessions and moved out of my apartment and out to the country to build my dream tiny house,” he wrote on his GoFundMe page.

Life Was Pretty Rough

No matter what Talley did, life kept throwing him tons of obstacles. First, his girlfriend cheated on him. Then he lost his dog and one of his grandparents too. The only thing that kept him sane was his dream.