Messes Welcome: Tour a Texas Painter's Home + School Bus Art Studio

Artist Molly Mansfield lives a busy life with her husband Sasquatch and their foster children in Taylor, Texas. Daily chores and meal prep reign supreme inside the home, but every artist needs a space to call their own. “My husband came home from work one day and said, 'Hey! Do you want a school bus?'" Molly laughs.

The interior of the bus no longer seats children, but now serves as a handmade space featuring some of her husband's handiwork. Surprisingly, a non-traditional school bus studio offers good light and plenty of space for functional furniture — it just required a few custom upgrades.

"This is a desk that my husband improvised," Molly explains. "This is all one piece of wood and it's made out of small slats of wood that are laminated together."

Opposite the desk, the other side of Molly's school bus studio works as a makeshift, mini art gallery where paintings are left to dry. "This side [of the bus] is just a piece of wood on top of some cinderblocks, and I’ve actually been utilizing the cinderblocks for storage."