We spent £430k constructing our dream motorhome – now it’s a mini mansion with a chef’s kitchen, wine fridge & rooftop seats
A COUPLE has shared how they determined to ditch their home and spend $430k on designing and constructing their dream motorhome.
Now, it’s their very personal mini mansion, full with a state-of-the-art kitchen, wine fridge and even a rooftop seating space for them to place their ft up on once they’re on the highway.
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American husband and spouse Robert Barkley and Julia Santos, who’re from California, all the time dreamed of proudly owning their very own RV in order that they may journey round and discover a new state to name residence as soon as their youngsters had left residence.
Nonetheless, when the time got here, Robert and Julia couldn’t choose a motorhome that they favored, in order that they determined to take motion and create their luxurious residence on wheels from scratch.
Talking as a part of Channel 5’s Million Pound Motorhomes, which airs on Sunday 4 September at 8pm, Julia explains they’d put their coronary heart and soul into making the £430,000 car really distinctive.
Julia, who works for a consultancy agency, says: “It took us a couple of yr and a half to design and construct it and we love the result.”
Swedish-born Robert, then admits that neither of the couple had any expertise in designing motorhomes previous to investing in their very own, however they’re thrilled with the result of their 34-foot mini mansion, which is pulled behind a truck that additionally carries a automobile.
The pair then gave a particular guided tour of their VIP car, beginning out with their pièce de résistance – their kitchen.
Julia says: “The center of the house is actually the kitchen. [We have] high-quality home equipment that vary from a tiny waffle maker to macchiatos and cappuccinos, and likewise an assist mixer.”
Julia provides: “I like to cook dinner and I like to entertain so I wished a chef’s kitchen.”
It’s a very life-changing expertise
Julia
Elsewhere, the plush property boasts massive bifold doorways, a homely double bed room with a Queen dimension mattress, a bathe room, lounge diner room, and a wooden burner.
There’s additionally beneath flooring storage in order that they will benefit from their house, and a suntrap space on the roof in order that the couple can get some much-needed R&R.
Plus, their rotating TV display screen and at-home Google system permits them to take pleasure in film date nights – and the curtains even shut themselves.
The pair may even work remotely as there may be an workplace space with a foldaway stand-up desk that later turns right into a helpful bar high. And proper subsequent to it there’s a wine fridge.
Regardless of initially investing within the motorhome as a stopgap till they discovered someplace everlasting to reside, the duo now wouldn’t have it every other method.
In truth, Robert – who beforehand labored in software program and advertising – has even launched a brand new enterprise enterprise providing recommendation to others on customized constructed motorhomes.
He says: “I actually take pleasure in this life. It’s been an incredible expertise waking up on daily basis in a brand new place. That’s onerous to surrender.”
Whereas a really contented Julia concludes: “The most effective factor about motorhoming is the liberty. I do take into consideration this as being a endlessly way of life.
“It’s a very life-changing expertise.”
Million Pound Motorhomes continues Sunday 4th September at 8pm on Channel 5
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