Design & Build...converting the Yellow Submarine into a Glamping Hotel.
- American School Bus
- Nov 20, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 21
"You can buy 30 pencils for a Pound in Poundland. But don't."
Having previously converted two American School Buses into stunning glamping accommodation, we had a blank canvas - an empty lifeboat - to create something new. It was time to plan stuff...and set about Converting the Yellow Submarine into a Glamping Hotel.
We sharpened our pencils, threw them away, bought some proper pencils, and started designing our vision - A Yellow Submarine! We actually came up with this initial design by colouring in a picture on our phone one evening in the pub - where all creative space dreams start. Probably.
Needs; A big bed. Two smaller beds. A mini-kitchen area. Seats. Lights. Water. Fun stuff. That's it. We chose blue for the interior, because blue was perfect. We set to work going with the perfect blue. Because blue is great. Marine-grade blue, because, why not? Yup - it's going to look great in blue. We planned the layout to maximise space, found dials and gauges and fixed them in, and had plans for other fun ideas, interior lighting, etc.
Just as we nearly finished making the interior perfectly blue, we found some special metal paint online. Which wasn't blue. Because we loved the perfect blue so much and had nearly finished all the blue work, we chose the special metal paint. Now this was perfect! We could now see the vision of a metal interior of a proper submarine. Bye bye blue.
Next - It's all metal...