I chose to have a stationary bed. After years of living in The Escape Pod, I knew that I did not want to pack up a bed everyday. Making a bed every morning isn’t a problem for me, plus my days are usually spent sitting on the bed, working. First things first. I bought a…
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FOUND SPACE/S
pushing life’s boundaries
FOUND SPACE/S is pushing boundaries – the boundaries of how we live, who we are, why we are here, and what we create. It seeks the spaces in between, the boundaries to push on, the systems to bust.
Becoming a person on this planet isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Society as a collective has us by the balls. Sometimes the boxes we are expected to live our lives out in are just too constraining.
So let’s explore. Let’s push. Let’s disrupt. Let’s play. Let’s have fun. Let’s experiment. LET’S LIVE!
FOUND SPACE/S wants to explore all sorts of alternative living and life styles – starting out with vanlife. If we are going to live in a box, why not make it one of our own making? Through that we’ll ask ourselves a lot of questions – How does the way we live affect our footprint on the environment? How does it affect our creativity? How does it affect our happiness and quality of life? How does it affect our productivity? Our contributions?
After that, we’ll explore other options and see what others have done.
We’ll also explore culture – art, music, performance, urban design, travel – along with science, tech, and politics.
Do you sometimes hear the whispers from the Universe telling you to break free, create, or bust a system?
Well then, you are the people I have been looking for.
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Building Out The Ford: Underneath The Bed Storage
I like having a big open space underneath the bed. It allows for choice in what and how to store things. Plastic boxes/crates for everything from clothes – towards the front to access from inside – to tools, cooking, and camping gear in the back. The floor was also finished front to back – I…

Building Out The Ford: The Closet and Counter Walls And Shelves
The walls just sort of fell into place. The first thing I did was decide what the purpose of the walls would be for. I knew that I wanted a closet to hang things in. I knew that I wanted a countertop to work on and for storage underneath. I also knew that I wanted…

Building Out The Ford: Door Panels
I thought that cutting out the door panels was going to be easy. On an E250, and probably every other van ever made, each door panel is a different shape. And I didn’t have the original ones to use as templates. The first decision was to stick with the door skin for a uniform look….

Building Out The Ford: Painting
I knew from the get go that I wanted the interior of the van to be white. There were a couple of reasons for this. Making art. When working in a studio, the walls and ceiling should be white, so that they don’t reflect color onto your work. Clean, minimal look and feel. I just…

Building Out The Ford: The Bed Platform
On to the bed platform. If I placed it just right, I could create the bed platform side-to-side rather than front-to-back, giving me a lot more floor space to work with. I seriously wanted a loft bed without “legs” that divided up the storage area underneath. I needed to be able to slide my storage…

Building Out The Ford: The Walls
Boy, did I overthink what I wanted to use for the walls! Materials I considered using for the walls: stretched canvas, masonite, 1/4-inch plywood, shower wall, and finally, door skin. Door skin is essentially a very thin plywood, about an 1/8-inch thick. It had a better, lighter, and smoother feel than masonite. It was somewhat…

Building Out The Ford: The Insulation
The next thing I worked on was the insulation. This one was hard, mostly because there were so many choices. And it wasn’t only the choices between the different kinds of insulation that made the decision difficult, but also, whether or not I wanted to insulate at all. There were a number of issues that…

Building Out The Ford: The Floor
Note: This post was first published over on ARTIST-AT-LARGE.COM Disclaimer: I have no idea what I’m doing. Not a clue. There was only one thing that I knew I wanted in my new-to-me van build – a hardwood floor. A nice floor. One that would make me feel connected to nature when I stood or…