The house I live in is a very old and was originally built without indoor plumbing. The bathroom was kludged into an old pantry at the early 1900s and doesn't work very well. Very cramped and dingy like a seond bathroom in a modern house. When the snow melts off I want to build a new bathroom centered around a large clawfoot tub I found. There is an old school bus parked out in one of the pastures that a bunch of hippies left sometime in the last century. I've wanted to haul it off for years but all the quotes I get are obscene. My neighbor wanted to buy it to make a camper. He raised the hood, lost interest and now it has been sitting out there with the hood up for the past two years.
The bus is huge. Maybe thirty five feet long. Tonight I had the idea of backing the bus up to the rear of the house house, building a hallway to the emergency exit and using it for the new bathroom. I would install windows in the roof so that it could also be used for a green house. Put it up on blocks, remove the wheels, skirt it and and have an artist I know paint it up. Put the clawfoot tub in the middle. This would save the cost of the lumber for the bathroom and would save the $600 bucks the junkyard wants to haul off the bus. You couldn't see the bus from the front of the house and there is nothing but pastures and forest behind. No one goes back there anyway as there is a mean horse out there.
I talked to one friend about it and she thought it was a good idea, but she lives in Ward Colorado where most of the houses are like this. Could this be an attractive addition or does the idea have too much of a taint of white trash/hippie house about it?
My only neighbor, who collects used lumber and junk cars and trucks for a hobby, probably wouldn't notice - so this isn't a problem.