Wheelhouse.
It’s not just a van. It’s a blank canvas with infinite possibilities.
Wheelhouse is my complete guide to building and selling camper vans, from choosing your base, strategizing design, building the vision, and selling it.
A handbook for a life on your terms.
Building vans gave me creative work, financial independence, a freedom over my time. Wheelhouse shares how the same craft can do it for you. Build one for yourself or flip it for profit; either way this walks you through all of it: buying the right platform, choosing materials, planning your design, my go-to building methods, and the strategies I use to market and sell a finished van.
It’s built around one principle: value creation. By the end you’ll have the tools to build a functional, beautiful van without wasting money, and the nerve to take the risk.
You’ll learn how to:
- Plan and design before you cut anything, so your investment lands where it will make an impact.
- Pick materials and components that hold up without draining the budget.
- Use my go-to methods for carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and curved forms.
- Follow the order of operations that keeps you from backtracking.
- Photograph, list, price, and sell a finished van to a serious buyer.
Reader reviews
What readers are saying.
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I’m reading your book and I absolutely love it. We have very similar stories because I also got into the campervan business after taking a nine month trip all around Australia. That journey taught me so much and when I came back, without even realizing it would turn into a business, I started building and converting vans into campervans. It doesn’t feel like work at all, it’s something I genuinely love doing
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I stumbled upon Abbe’s Instagram just as she made the decision to fly cross country and purchase the yellow foundation to her original Luna van. Her content is honest, self deprecating, inspiring, funny, and motivating. Her book amplifies each of those attributes ten fold. Abbe proves that combining passion with a financially tuned mindset can still be the cornerstone of the next billion dollar empire. I am certainly rooting for her. Read this book!
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Hey Abbe, I wanted to reach out and say I finished your book. Thank you for all your insight to your process and how you started. After finishing it back in February, I started to rethink my entire approach and after a few months of building, I wanted to say thank you for being inspirational to me and my journey. 🙏🫶
I almost walked away from vans.
In September 2022 I decided I was done building. I’d run out of inspiration and wanted to pour my energy into something that could reach thousands of people, not just one buyer at a time. But this craft had given me too much to walk away from: a life free from financial constraint, travel, the most important people in my life, and an endless supply of ideas.
I joked that I’d learned enough to write a book. Then it hit me: I literally can write a book. Eight months of brainstorming, outlining, writing, and refining later, I’d left everything I know on paper. And funny enough, after reading it ten times over, my excitement for building came back and led straight to my yellow van.
Everyone asks what I do for work, how I afford to live this way, and how they can do it too. This book is the answer.
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