Daughter & Dad Build Minivan Camper - Toyota Sienna 

Love the 3 purposes for the bed extender/cabinet door/table idea! So creative.

This looks great! And amazing father-daughter bonding experience!

This is awesome! Thank you so much! The removable table rails are just what I need for my bed build design. I also ordered the folding legs. My design is going to be a little different but these two things will really make it work!!! (I hope! 😂) Thank you!!! Starting to build next week!!!

Love the father daughter team!

Great design! I’ve seen many different designs, but yours is exceptionally innovative and creative! Congrats. Looking forward to seeing those design in use.

One way to fast charge your Jackery is to use a pure sine wave inverter ( I use a 300Watt) plug the Jackery adapter into it and charge the Jackery while driving. It is much faster than using the vehicles 12V as a charger. I fitted a fused cigarette lighter connected with a 10ga wire direct to the cars battery to power the inverter. I have not had an occasion as yet to use my Saga100 solar panel

Very creative and well built!

Very clever design, thanks for sharing 👍!! Looks like a bike Tuesday. I've been really debating what type of vehicle and I'm leaning towards a minivan, your build is persuading me.

OH - MY - GAWSH! Very cool!! Y’all are the smartest people in the entire world!

What a wonderful design

This is very nice! Great job!

Very nice work. I’m getting ready to convert my Sienna and I think I might poach a couple of your ideas. Thanks

Wonderful. Great and simple and affordable. Thanks

Love what you both have done and that you did it together. Nice job and great video!

Great ingenuity!

Love this so far. A little technical for me but great content. Nice job.

Very cool content 👍 informative, wholesome stuff outside of the usual influencer $10k+ builds

Awesome build 👍✌

Which fridge are you using there? Thank you for a lovely video!

Great video. I’m possibly 5 years away from retirement and would love to tour the U.S. and Canada once I can with a converted Sienna.

really cool you share sketchup model, thanks!

Very nice!

Very clever!

Nice 👍

Do you have plans to sell the design prebuilt? I would love to be able to have this design or some modification to fit my vehicle but I don’t have the skills or the place to build

I have a 2006 Sienna. I removed all of the rear seats. How necessary is it to building a floor? Can I just put a pad and a rug down? I don't have anyone to help me and I don't know how to make a floor.

i got 2 little ones in car seats. how do i convert my sienna into mini camper?!

Jack, where do you store your clothes?

💯

Where could I obtain the collapsible 10" iron pin feet?

Joli

I have the same van, down to the color! I’m converting mine too, and it’s really cool to see how different our builds are! So many possibilities!

Love the build! Thank you for sharing. Makes me really wish my father was still around to work with me on my build. Here's to many wonderful adventures in your new camper minivan. - Alis

You and your daughter did a beautiful job, really nice.

Thank you for being generous and not charging for your plan. You’re videos brought back great memories of my doing projects with my dad (may he Rest In Peace)

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing your design! Just bought a sienna, hope to try out your plans in the coming weeks! WOOT

Very nice job ! Great ideas thanks!!

That was the most enjoyable video to watch on a very nice build. Thank you.

Omg thank u for sharing ur plans. I love ur cabinet and bed setup. I'm in erly stage but will consider ur plans. Again thank u two soooo much!!!

The most simple yet most versatile design that I have seen!!!!😎👍

Wow, wow, wow!!!

Thanks for sharing! I have subscribed. More success to you and your family. I like what you’ve done, especially fashioning the corner brackets to bolt it down to the back of the front seat. I have no experience with power tools and I have limited number of power tools. So I use a lot of heavy duty zip ties, ropes, and heavy duty Velcro tapes. Perhaps the following can help so you have access to the sliding door handle to open it. I used a wooden dowel and secured it vertically to the hold bars near the sliding door with heavy duty zip ties. Both my foldable metal shelving and front blockout curtain rod are secured to the dowel. Both stayed secured even in sudden braking in freeway traffic and off-grid roads. In addition, I have secured floor-cabinetry and lightweight foldable shelving in the back and middle portion on one side of the van to the ceiling-hold bars. However, I’m thinking of installing a long-ish wooden dowel that extends beyond the hold bars on the ceiling ... resting horizontally across the hold bars in the back end of the van to secure heavy duty cabinet. I’m not handy with power tools. I would welcome other ideas without involving major skills.

Well DONE! Thanks much for the share and great ideas! Hoping to get another Van soon.... Cheers! :)

Awesome well thought out design.

A very nice build, thank you for sharing.

What a great design team 💥

Awesome little build y'all. ❤👍

Love this video so much. We just bought a 2016 Sienna and have 'stolen' ideas from all of the same videos you did to created a quick and inexpensive kitchen and bedroom, so that we can camp with our tiny human!! Bring on the summer!!!

What a unique solution! Thank you for sharing.

Hi, Love your build. And thanks for sharing the sketching and ideas. I just got a 2015 Sienna, started our camper conversion now. When looking at the sketchup, saw the 4 inches x 4 feet long piece of plywood on the head side. Is that suppose to be nailed on the frame? or you actually use a 2'4" x 4' plywood board on the head side. If it's nailed to the frame, then can I skip the inside 2x4 thats 3'6". Thank you.

This is a great build

Just started mine today in a 2004 sienna! Completed all the gutting and cleaning today! Thanks for the video!

Great work guys. Really inspired.

Great build! Thank you for sharing.

Really cool ideas. Thank you for sharing!

This is REALLY GREAT! I love the multi purpose table-top/bed frame pieces, and the simplicity of this design... thanks for sharing all the details... Happy travels!

This rocks, hard! You give me (average joe, mildly mechanically inclined - more vision than skill/experience) hope. Thanks, safe travels.

Thank you for sharing I love your design GOD BLESS you guys!

Great build thank you

love the design!....the seemingly simplicity yet functional way the bed extension became the cupboard doors which became the table top was ingenious! I am waffling between converting a small vs. expensive high top van (the bathroom being the major issue) for retirement travel. Have you added a feature like this for "gotta go now!" situations (or if public washrooms are not available)? .....perhaps a mini-van with a "stow & go" feature would allow a place for feet with a short pail/potty out of the well so getting down & up would be easier? Not sure if your van has this well area though. She has much younger knees than I though. Love your sharing ...can't wait to see what modifications you decide on. Best of luck travelling!

This is a great video and great conversion. Very generous of you to share your design/plans... I can't wait to get started!

i love this...my husband and i want to do a simple conversion someday! you have done incredibly....

This is a great video, very understandable and easy to follow, and a great build. I have a semi-build in my 2012 sienna and am already wanting to change it for something like this. I have a 30qt fridge I would like to put in place of the console. Regarding the console, I have no problem living without it, but my husband really needs the armrest when driving. Would this plan work if one armrest remained? Hope to see you somewhere down the road!

Do you have the links for the corner wood plain tool (never saw that) and special legs for the bed that fold (hair pin I think you said). EXCELLENT build and love the simple cad tool. Thx !! Subscribed.

Awesome! and double awesome you sharing all the measurements ❤️ Thank you thank you thank you!

Yall are awesome..

Wow! This is what Ive been looking. A family van both for weekend camping and everyday use at work! I like the idea where the bed can be converted into a couch! Very innovative design and practical! Pls show more video about the toilet! Where do you fit the porty potty

Really nice and versatile build. One thing I don't like is the web straps. In my build, I used those and they proved to be a weak point. I switched to u-bolts instead.

Thank you! I plan to use a modified plan based on your hard work! Thank you for being generous and not charging for your plans!

Very nice design

I like this one

Loved your ideas. Will follow along to see your projects. I also own a sienna van. Thanks for the share.

Too bad you can’t do this on the newer hybrid sienna vans. On the new ones the middle seats have airbags in them so if you remove them it will throw fault codes. And the seats are much heavier too.

van looks great! so clever!

where did you buy the smooth plyboard ? and what do you call it please?

Best conversion I have seen yet. Great Job!

waiting on the rest of the videos... I'd love to see the outdoor shower build.

Awesome job!!!!

This is awesome! You guys rock!

Aaaaaaw, maaaan. I want a dad...er uh, I mean, a van like thaaaaat. 💝

I used a wooden dowel and used a heavy duty zip tie to secure it to the handle near sliding doors. I used this to secure the front blockout curtain rod. And I secured my metal foldable shelves behind the front passenger seat to the wooden dowel. I did a road test with road bumps and sudden brakes in freeway traffic and had good results. Now I will secure the middle wooden cabinetry that I store long things like camp chairs, tents, table, etc., and also storage for large flat things like solar panel, and

Beautiful job. So well planed.

Enjoyed the video and the tips! thank you. one question, what is the black sanding tool your daughter is using on the edges of the plywood? I'm dealing with that right now! Where did you buy it and do you have a link? Thanks!

What brand and size refrigerator

Well done!

Wheres the tour of the finished van

Fab ideas esp table doors extension

omg this is an amazing build

What an awesome build! Very well thought out layout.

One of the best designs!!!

Wow this is genius!!

You did great!

I love your van

Could you email the blueprints? I didn’t have any luck downloading them.

Ingenious!

Awesome !

This is brilliant! I love that you can still put the 2nd row of seats in.

Thank you very much for all the info.

What a great build man ! All that thinking !! So practical. And very smartly done. This build is definitely is my top 10 in mini-vans. All the best guys.