$15k Bunnings conversion turns Melbourne bus into tiny home

The converted bus and Abby’s dog in the drivers seat. The old No. 812 bus to Southland doesn’t normally take a detour into Victoria’s high country, but one has spent the past three years parked in Hill End as a tiny home weekender. It used to do the Heath Hill run to the shopping plaza in Melbourne, and before that it was a school bus. And while it’s still taking passengers, these days they’re the ones travelling to the bus which has had a $15,000 overhaul — with a lot of the materials and tools bought at Bunnings. RELATED: Victorian family who lived in train after bushfire list unique home for sale Melb family turns $20k into $120k in a few months Vic home owner unearths hidden backyard gold mine Owner Abby bought the old bus “from a guy out the back of Morwell” via Facebook Market Place. “The plan all along was to convert it,” she said. “I was originally looking for a caravan, and they didn’t seem big enough, and then I saw this pop up. “I’ve always been good at looking at different things, like a bus or a van, and working out what I could turn it into. So it was just thinking about where the inlets and outlets need to go for water and where they would fit.” She then spent about ...