Saturday Continues to Sunday

Fiberglass in hand, we continue, what is step 1 of a camper redo?  Take the top off… ummm sorry canvas.

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As I stated before, there was significant water damage to the roof, we called everyone we could, seriously some amazing friends and neighbors who helped us raise the roof and put it in the back yard.

So we are able to roll our topless trailer into the garage.  So the body is in great shape, but we want to make this a very comfortable home away from home, so I wanted to redo the interior, this includes my fabric choice here for the curtains, it is the basis of everything we will be doing in the camper.

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The camper is full of what I think is MDF or thin plywood with veeneer placed on top.  We took out all the doors and drawers, and as a design choice, added blue tape over the brass fittings.

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Here is my wonderful dear husband taking off loads of hardware.DSC03520

I took my trusted sander, made by Ryobi hereDSC03524

I love this sander, sometimes it feels like the triangle loose their sandpaper-ness too easily, but other than that I am always happy with the results.DSC03522I scuffed up all the surfaces, just enough to get some grip for the paint.  Now I know someone likes all of this “wood” and it was in nice shape, but I felt we needed to help seal up a few mold spots and the mildew smell.

I ended up using Zinsser super primer on the wood, two coats, this took about a half of gallon.  You can get this delivered through Amazon here.

For the “white” which is actually a light grey, it was left over from a few exterior projects.  it was the Valspar which we had purchased from our local Cashman’s True Value.  I love going there, they are always nice and non judgemental on my projects.

The red was an oops paint for Gidden from Home depot, the can cost $7.50 for the gallon.  This was extremely different paint than what I was used to, it was very watery and to get the cabinets this red, it took 5 coats or so.  To be honest I wasn’t happy with how it went on, but I think it looks good in the end and I am super tired tonight!

Also my hubby and I were able to hash out a logo last night, may we present, Family Adventure Awaits.

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