Gypsy Waggon!

I have been dreaming of building a Gypsy Waggon for years. Now it’s becoming a reality!

I bought a trailer for $500 and I built a platform on top of it, extending it both forward and back. Now, I am building the walls!

After a good day of framing!

The floor is insulated with R-13 fiberglass batts, as will be the walls and ceiling.

I am lucky to have the time and space to work. I am house-sitting for the Summer at a wonderful German couple’s house, where I rent a garage as a woodshop in back. I feel lucky to have this opportunity in the city of Boston to build such a thing.

I hope that I might be able to leave it where it is and live in it, but if I cannot, then I will find somewhere else to park it. If I can’t find a place near Boston, then I may have to bring it out to Western Mass, where I worked on a flower farm with Wil and Cindy, and leave it there as my “country home”, and continue to rent a room in Boston.

This is the inside. The bed will be along the long window. There will be a gable roof and a skylight over the bed.

I was also very lucky to have a good friend, Asis, help me this weekend. We worked both days, and played some music on Saturday night, and cooked an amazing meal. He is a great worker and has an ingenious mind for this kind of ad-hoc carpentry.

Asis, one of my best friend!