White paint itself is a super common color to choose in vans because it’s bright and opens up the space, making it feel larger. However, white paint can be a huge mistake when decorating your van because van life gets quite messy and white paint reveals every little smudge of dirt and mud. If you’re absolutely set on using white, the best thing to do is to purchase the highest quality white paint so that it can be easily wiped and cleaned and won’t wear down as fast. The benefit to van life is that even choosing the highest quality paint, you won’t have to buy too much since the space is quite small.

2. using tile

If you’re ok with re-tiling your space every couple of years, go ahead and use tile as much as your heart desires! However, you should consider that every time you drive your van on a bumpy road, your bathroom can be experiencing up to a level 10 earthquake. So of course tile would be one of the first parts of your van to suffer from the shaking. One great alternative to tile is using FRP (fiber-reinforced-plastic). There are hundreds of different textures and designs of FRP, many of which resemble tile! This saves you the hassle of grouting and dealing with broken tiles because FRP is installed in large panels.

3. Using regular screws or pre-made Lowe’s or Home Depot furniture

Like we mentioned above, the furniture in your van gets shaken constantly. Most people don’t realize that there is even an option of weight-rated screws with shear test results out there to use in their vans! These screws are weight-tested to withstand the horizontal friction that accompanies something like a van driving. 
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This is the same reason why prefabricated furniture would not be worth the money and labor to install in a van. The lifespan of those furniture pieces made for stationary homes would be much much shorter in a non-stationary van. Additionally, many of these prefabricated pieces of furniture use weaker materials like particle wood.