I bought a 1997 static caravan for £5k & am transforming it into my dream tiny home with DIY & Dunelm buys

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VANTASTIC I bought a 1997 static caravan for £5k & am transforming it into my dream tiny home with DIY & Dunelm buys
BUYING a house can be expensive, so many people are thinking outside the box to find more affordable options.
One woman shared how she managed to buy a 1997 static caravan for just £5,000, and is now transforming it into her dream tiny home.
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Loz bought a 1997 static caravan for £5,000 and was able to put it on private land
Credit: Tiktok/@loz.russell
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She showed off her incredible dining room renovation
Credit: Tiktok/@loz.russell
Loz Russell shared how she had found the tiny home from Sambeck Caravans in Essex and viewed around 20 before finding this one, which she was able to put on private land.
In a clip on her @loz.russell account which has racked up over 126,000 views, she shared how they have already transformed the dining area on a budget to look brand new.
She shared: 'Our first project is the dining area. We are completely stripping out the existing banquet seating, removing the panels on the walls, and then insulating, battening, and re-boarding.
'This was actually really funny for us because even though we knew the caravan wasn't winterised, we were not expecting to find literal polystyrene in the walls.'
She shared how they stripped and insulated all of the walls, replacing them with V-groove panelling.
Loz continued: 'Next week, we cut and sanded all of the new walls. We were able to borrow a workshop for this because the weather was so bad we couldn't do it outside.'
They then painted the walls a bright white shade, which gave the place an instant face list.
She added: 'This is when I really started to get excited, and it was really starting to come together with the new walls and some paint.'
They then added a bench for seating and painted it the same colour as the walls - and then added a Swithland Roman Blind from Dunelm.
Perfect for storage, the benches also lift up to reveal some extra space underneath.
We moved into a caravan in my mother-in-law's garden for a year, sure it was cramped but we saved £20k
She added: 'We still have the backrest to do, a little cabinet at the end to add, and the window to double glaze. But this is how it's looking now, and I honestly love it so much.'
Her next jobs include adding a media wall and electric fire to the lounge.
Many viewers were impressed with her caravan renovation project, and rushed to the comments to praise Loz's hard work.
One said: 'Beautiful, great job, this was always my dream to do this.'
Another added: 'Currently debating doing this … TikTok is a bad influence.'