3/5
I’ve been spending many late hours hunting google, Pinterest, and eBay for Spanish tiles. I’ve found a place in Chicago that sells them. So we’ll check them out when we take a hike to Ikea next month and hopefully pick one out. I’m a little concerned about the weight that will add to the Beach House though.
3/4/14 reality checks
I’ve been calling reupholsters in the area. This stuff is not cheap! Between fabric and labor I’m looking at a cool grand just for the sleeper couch!
It’s back to the drawing board. Maybe I can find some kind of slip cover that will fit or perhaps my mom can sow a cover for me.
I did find a few gals on Etsy that can make the dinette cushions. I’m waiting for quotes from them. In the meantime I’ve ordered swatches of the fabric I’d like. I’m going for something that can take a beating in the “Sunbrella” arena.
The lamps I might be stuck with. It turns out there’s a certain amperage running through the beach house and my husband will NOT mess with electricity. We’ve seen enough photos of RVs up in flames and an electrician’s fee is not anything either of us will want to consider just to change these lamps.
Maybe a little spray paint and new shades will be enough.
Speaking of spray paint, Do you remember all those the cabinet pulls and hinges? Well it turns out those can run anywhere from a dollar to 6 dollars apiece or more. The Beach House has about 50 cabinet pulls alone! Plus hinges. RUSTOLEUM IT IS!!!
We also took a trip to Home Depot to look at backsplash tiles and faucets and cheap flooring for the bathroom. My husband is still fighting the carpet removal but he agrees bathroom + rug is a bad idea.
We found a few we liked and took a couple pictures and samples.
I think I’d rather have a nice Spanish tile as a back splash reminiscent of the ones I see all over Puerto Rico and Old San Juan. Time to get back to Google.
2/28 The FUGLY! ok it’s not that bad…yes it’s horrible
Let’s face it people. RV manufacturers can do great things with engineering but they’re not really interior designers. And perhaps dark cabinetry and gold EVERYTHING was all the rage in the 90s but not today.
MAKE OVER!! PROJECT!!.
The 90’s electronics ALL have to go. We need an upgrade PRONTO!
We have a VCR?! YES WE DOOOO
These rugs smell, BAD.
I’m sure there were pets here at some point. So, besides the carpet being ugly and smelly, I’m pulling the allergen card and getting rid of it.
My husband says he can get a good carpet cleaner and allergen solutions. We’ll see..
And who in their right mind puts carpet in a bathroom? Right outside the shower? Helloooo?
No. That has to go too.
The ugly vinyl in the toilet closet? Out!
Not sure why there’s a mirror between the top and bottom cabinetsnin the toilet closet…I guess you’re supposed to sit on the toilet while you apply make-up. I wonder if I can find cabinets to fill this space? I can use that a lot more than an awkwardly placed mirror. Maybe Ikea can help.
This fabric is terrible. Just…No. I will definitely need to re-cover these valances and reupholster the couch and dinette.
Not quite sure what to do with the captain chairs. Maybe we can upgrade down the line.
In the kitchen the blinds are sticky yucky and need to be replaced. The ugly faucet is uncomfortable and needs to go too. I’d like to add a nice back splash as well. It’s a very small area so I don’t think it will be too much money.
Painting the pulls on all the cabinets will be a pain so I’ll just buy new ones. The ones here are not bad at all but the color has to go. And the ugly brown cabinets? Bye bye!
It’s a good thing we still have white paint in the house. It’s going all over the cabinets and the walls too because this “wallpaper” situation is not working for me.
I want new, more modern lamps. These are just …well fugly.
And what am I supposed to do with this extra recliner? I have no real use for it. To me it seems more like a waste of space…
Besides the cosmetics we really need to figure out what to do about the bunk beds. We definitely want to build one over the captain/copilot chair for my daughter and one will just have to go over the dinette.
I’m not thrilled about losing the air space over the dining area. It will take away the nice open feeling there is in the RV right now.
But I do want each of the kids to have their own space a lot more. And folding the dinette into a bed EEEVERY SINGLE night will not do.
My husband is doing all the research for the build. I have no idea how he’s going to MacGyver this. I just keep sending him ideas of what I’ve seen on the web.
The GOOD!!
Besides the low milleage and all the other mechanical stuff I have no clue about?
The shades are great! Day and night shades! I wish I had these back in the old house!
I love that the tub is spacious compared to others I’ve seen in other RVs. Even the newer RVs I’ve seen do not have such a comfy shower unless you hit the higher end.
There is no curtain in the shower! Wipee! The Class C we rented last year had a plastic curtain that just didn’t work to keep the water in. The solid shower door is a lot better in my opinion.
Did I mention the Corian? Love this! The Class C we rented last year had some cardboard thing for a counter and it was lifting at the edges even though the vehicle was new. All that dishwashing must not sit well with cheaper counter top options.
The flooring in front of the kitchen has a real wood look. I actually thought it was hardwood for a bit (duh!). It’s very nice. I wish the entire galley area and bathroom had it.
There’s also A LOT of storage space in what I’m calling the basement. We definitely didn’t have this in the class C. I’m sure my kids will fill it with toys. And the outside shower in the back!! Love it! Although it’s next to the poop release ..hmmm
The automatic awning is also very nice to have as well as the automatic leveler thingies (yes thingies). Everything seems in good working order as far as I can tell without really having used it. It’s still completely winterized. I’m sure there is plenty more I’m not yet grateful for. I’m flying blind here.
Normally I would try to get all new stuff new for a new place. But since a big part of this move is to simplify and save money we’ll do as much with what we have. PROJECT!!
We’ll definitely reuse the new curtains I bought for the current house. I can use those to re-cover the Valances all over the RV. It’s a nice Moroccan tile pattern that I still love. We can probably reuse the Navy black-out curtains in my son’s room for the bunk beds privacy curtains we plan to install. I have plenty of blue/white throw pillows/cushions I can use and some yellow ones from the old sunroom that will add a pop of color to the place. And if the budget allows I’ll get one or two quirky ones I spotted on Etsy. 🙂 And we have plenty of kid art and photographs that will never make it in 😦
I have plenty of towels and bed sheets. I may need one or two Queen size though. All my stuff is king size. I could work with those for now I guess.
I have plenty of kitchen stuff that will definitely go into the RV. I could probably replace some things in the future with light weight/pastic/acrilyc items though. For now my stuff will more than make do.
I have plastic Adirondack chairs and a couple hammocks so no need for “patio furniture”. Really what’s with all the outdoor furniture RVers carry? I always wonder where they put it all when they go on the road. 😕
But I will need an outdoor rug. I never did get one of those for the house.
My husband wants to replace the sleeper sofa with our recliner couch. I don’t’ think it will fit. Plus it’s got a high back and it will cover at least a third of the windows behind it. We can’t do that. Plus we’ll lose the extra bed. We’ll need that for guests coming over.
He says we won’t have many guests or at least none that often. He says he’ll definitely use his recliner and very often!!
Frankly I don’t think it will fit anyway. The color would work but I really don’t want to lose the light coming from the window or the extra bed. It’s a perfectly fine sleeper couch!! But my husband is a good husband and he does work hard…and he does have a point…
we’ll see
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