You can see more of this creative couple’s home-on-wheels life on their bus Instagram account, The Bicoastal Bus, as well Talia’s YouTube. Talia and Andy also run a custom-crafted LED neon sign business out of the bus called Love Lights, which you can also follow on Instagram at @shoplovelights.

My Style: Our home feels a lot like Palm Springs and Miami had a baby!

Inspiration: All of our previous homes were rentals that were bland and did not age well. Since this was our first home that we’ve owned, we wanted to make it bright like our personalities and timeless as well. We were inspired by Scandinavian minimalist designs, especially in our kitchen!

Favorite Element: The favorite element of our home is our big, gorgeous wet bath that has a skylight in it! The lighting is absolutely amazing and the space is huge!

Biggest Challenge: In our home, there are literally no square angles or level surfaces. Incorporating a whole house in 280 square feet when we have no design experience tested our absolute ability to bend so we don’t break. It was worth it in the end. 

Proudest DIY: Tiling the bathroom walls and floors with no tiling experience! The penny tile floor in the bathroom was a challenge — we used the improper grout initially and had to scrape in between thousands of penny tiles to remove the grout and replace it with the proper type. Then, we didn’t love the color, so I had to re-scrape every single tile again and replace! We’ve had no problems since and we are in LOVE with how it looks.

Biggest Indulgence: The biggest cost of our bus was the system for our solar power. It cost $8,000 (so $2,000 less than our bus itself) and [is] probably our biggest regret. We purchased it as a kit and it was completely unnecessary (and overpriced)! We could have pieced it out for so much less ourselves! Our Smeg fridge WOULD have been the biggest indulgence but I bought it secondhand for $800!

Is there something unique about your home or the way you use it? We can completely live off grid forever as long as there is sun! We are completely mobile — and have been traveling in the house since June 2021 all around the country!

What are your favorite products you have bought for your home and why? 

• Our Big Fig mattress! Not only is it a California King, it’s made for bigger figures —supporting up to 1,100 pounds and hasn’t sagged unlike other mattresses!
• Our Tineco S3 Wet/Dry Vacuum is so easy to use around the bus! It has a smaller footprint than keeping a broom, bucket, and mop on hand plus is cordless and easy to maneuver around our tiny space!
• Our Nebia low flow showerhead It atomizes water so it’s high pressure but conserves up to 50 percent more water than a traditional showerhead! It only uses 1.3 gallons per minute of water.
• Our Smeg refrigerator, which is the absolutely most perfect size and would have been almost $3,000 had I not found it on Facebook Marketplace! It was a complete and total score! 

Please describe any helpful, inspiring, brilliant, or just plain useful small space maximizing and/or organizing tips you have: Build upwards in your space to make the most of it. Build in storage where you can and keep a catch-all bin around a small space so that at the end of the day you can just put it away and empty it rather than let it sit everywhere cluttering your small space! Use outdoors when available!

Finally, what’s your absolute best home secret or decorating advice? Don’t be afraid to be different! Do what feels good to you and don’t put yourself in a box! Thrift and secondhand stores have some amazing pieces for decor! Remember to have fun!

• Kitchen cabinets — “Rose Colored 6303” Sherwin-Williams
• Entryway — “Cherry Fizz M140-5” Behr 
• Exterior — “Aqua Fiesta 1147-4” PPG
• Dinette + accent wall — “Dark Kettle Black 4011” Behr
• Driver’s chair — Angelus Acrylic Leather Paint in “Lilac”

• Fireball automatic fire extinguisher — Quora
• Monstera — Jordan’s Jungle

• Cabinets — IKEA Sektion Cabinets
• Quartz countertops — Jerong Products Inc. in Hayward, California
• Dometic 12V fridge/freezer (stored in countertop) — Amazon
• Smeg refrigerator — purchased secondhand, but available at West Elm
• Smeg hand blender — Amazon
• True Induction Dual Gas Cooktop + Induction Burner
• Furrion Built In Gas Oven 9000 BTU — Tweetys
• Kraus Kore Workstation undermount sink — Amazon
• Dish cloth — Anthropologie
• Berkey water filter — Amazon
• Le Creuset stoneware — Amazon
• Delta faucet — Amazon

• Cane webbing — Frank Supply
• Monstera + pastel pink throw pillows — Society6
• Black + white grid pillow — Society6
• White planter — World Market
• Curtains — World Market
• Maxx Air Fan (seen in kitchen and bedroom)

• Brushstroke pillow cases — Society6
• Leopard print pillow — Society6
• Comfort Zone pillow — Society6
• Monstera shower mat — Shop Zoki
• Mattress — Big Fig

• Nebia by Moen Low Flow Showerhead
• Separett composting toilet — Amazon
• Concrete pink sink by Concretti Designs — Amazon
• Bathroom faucet  — Amazon
• Wallpaper — Amazon
• Shower doors by Coastal Shower Doors — Wayfair
• White wall tiles by Tile Gen — Overstock
• Black wall tiles by Tile Gen — Overstock
• Black penny tiles by Festival — Floor and Decor
• White penny tiles by Festival Floor and Decor

Thanks Talia and Andy!

This house tour’s responses were edited for length and clarity.

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