My family turned a 400-square-foot trailer with rotting floors into a mobile home with 2 bedrooms and a rock wall. See inside.

My family began living on the road in a renovated RV after we sold our home.

Christian Axness

• I gutted a 400-square-foot trailer and renovated it into a home on wheels for my family of four.
• We got the RV on sale because its floors were rotting, so we replaced them ourselves.
• We use every inch of the RV, which has three beds, a full bathroom, a living area, and a half bath.

When my family embarked on a yearlong RV trip around the United States in 2016, we had no idea it would snowball into a lifestyle.