tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87796036497592917512024-03-18T21:02:06.122-07:00Travel Trailer RenovationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15852877126756002820noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779603649759291751.post-40063716977525003782015-02-04T18:55:00.000-08:002015-02-07T13:39:59.892-08:00VintageTravel Trailer Redo<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I can't believe it's been 1 1/2 years since we bought the 1982 Sunline Travel Trailer. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Time is flying by!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We bought her in August of 2013.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It took a little longer than I thought to finish her, but she was ready to roll by October of 2013... We took her on a little camping trip in the UP with my sister and brother in law. She pulled like a dream and kept us nice and dry during a night time rain storm.. But getting her to that point wasn't quite as easy as I'd thought!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The outside was in relatively good condition.. There were some dents, a cracked window and the roof needed some immediate attention, but other than that, it really was in good condition.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Like many men, the previous owner used duck tape to make repairs.. lol.. If you can tell by the picture, he had taped an opening closed with overlapping duck tape. Notice the duck taped window...lol..This was actually suppose to be a vent with a grate over it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We couldn't see the roof before buying it.. On hindsight, we should have taken our own ladder so we could inspect it... The owner didn't have one available.. After looking at it we realized it had never been cleaned, or painted.. This picture is after I'd taken a leaf blower to it, vacuumed it and scrubbed it... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It was really bad! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Someday I'd like to remove the air conditioner and install a bubble window in it's place.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It didn't take us long to realize the previous owner hadn't been quite honest with us on a number of topics.. If he had been honest, we probably still would have bought it, but since he failed to disclose quite a few things, we were left feeling a little ripped off.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The inside was pretty typical for that era and had never had any updates.. This side is the normal booth and table combo when not being used as a bed.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I had asked about water leaks and was told it had been stored with a tarp on it and had never had any leaks.. I looked in all the cupboards, and touched the ceiling, to which I noticed the ceiling paper was bubbling in a few spots.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I was assured there had never been any water leaks and the bubbling was just from age.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The cupboards had things stored in them, and being polite, I didn't start pulling things that didn't belong to me out (until after we had purchased it)... It appears the things were placed in all the right places to hide all the water damage! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>UGH.. sellers, please just be honest so buyers know what to expect!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Once we got into it and started tearing it apart, we realized there had been lots and lots of leaking. One wall was rotten because the door was gapping enough when closed so water had been running in and right down that wall and the area he had "ducked tape" had allowed water in, too. The areas with the most damage had been camouflaged with cushions and things stuffed in front of it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We definitely shouldn't have been so polite, and we should have just moved things out of our way so we could really see what the condition was.. lesson learned! </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>If we buy another, we'll know better what to look for. </i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lots of rotten wood had to be replaced before we could even get started.. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>On the bright side, all the windows were in good shape (other than one that was cracked). We knew the electricity didn't work going in. The circuit box had burnt out years before and hadn't been replaced.. The previous owner said he couldn't find a replacement. We had planned to try and find one and have it fixed, but after discovering there was so much water damage, we decided we really didn't want to trust the existing wiring, nor did we want to replace all the wiring, so we decided to add electricity in a different way, which I'll explain later.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This is the opposite side of the trailer, your typical couch that pulls out to a bed...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The cushions for both beds were pretty nasty, old and smelly, so they were tossed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>There is a teeny tiny bathroom with a tiny sink and toilet. It appears to be in very good condition and will work without electricity, but we opted to use the campgrounds facilities so we didn't have to deal with the waste or worry about having to winterize the whole system.... Plus, was the previous owner honest about the water tanks not having any leaks?? We aren't sure..</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The door goes to the itty bitty bathroom (so cute) and the fridge is located on this wall, too. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>After a day of tossing crap out the previous owners left inside, figuring out what all we needed to fix due to water damage and washing everything down really good, I was able to get started turning this little ole trailer into something really cute!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>First, though, after cleaning the roof really well, I added two coats of rubberized paint made for trailers and sprayed all the seams with a silicone sealing spray. Then we added foam seal around the doorway, which sealed the door and stopped the problem of water getting in.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I removed the table and after pulling up the seats of the benches, realized there was a lot more water damage on the walls under them.. We eventually realized there was a screw missing from the front of the trailer, and that little hole had allowed water to flow inside, rotting the wood.. Once I removed the wallpaper on the wall by the door, I discovered that the wood was all rotted (from the door gap).. Luckily, the floor had somehow been spared and there was no water damage to it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We ripped out the old rotted wood (which is really very thin wood to begin with), and replaced it with new... After repairing all of that, we added tongue and groove wood, both because we love the look, but also to add even more strength to these areas.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Once we had repaired all the water damage and coated the roof, I could get started on the really fun part... painting and decorating.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I thought a trailer done in a vintage baby blue, or a light shabby green, or all ivory with pink accents would be soooooo cute! When I asked my husband which color he'd prefer, he kind of got that deer in the headlight look... He asked if we could maybe do dark blue.. or a dark green.... </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I got a deer in the headlight look. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We finally settled on red and white, and do another trailer in a Coca Cola theme.. We had a lot of Coca Cola themed items left over from the first trailer I'd done, so it did make sense. And we both really liked that look.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>So Coca Cola it is....</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>First I removed all the cupboard doors and refrigerator door.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We set up work tables in the driveway so I could spray paint all the cupboard doors coca cola red after cleaning and sanding them... I used Rustoleum spray, which really coated them well and look beautiful.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I'm not sure what that keyhole looking cut is in the cupboard next to John's head.. There was a picture taped over it. Once we removed it we discovered the hole.. lol..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I read a blog on <a href="http://mobilehomeliving.org/" target="_blank">Mobile Home Living</a> about using rustoleum spray paint to paint the outside of a trailer or travel trailer.. I had used that idea on our first travel trailer, and it had turned out really good and still looked great a year later, so that's what I decided to do with this one.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I scrubbed the outside really well with a big RV brush and soapy water, then rinsed it with the hose over and over again, until all evidence of any grime or dirt was gone.. I taped off the design I wanted, all the windows, lights and anything else I didn't want painted.. I took a silicone spray and used it around the edges of the window sills and all seams. When it was dry, I started the spray painting.. I did all the white sections in one afternoon, let it cure for a day, then taped off the design again with wider tape to protect the white, and spent a day spray painting the red section. A few days later, I sanded and cleaned the tongue and fender and spray painted them flat black, after covering the front and back of the trailer with cardboard to protect it from over spray. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I really did not think this paint would work, but I gave it a shot anyways.. I spray painted both sides of the awning and left it pulled out for quite a few days to cure.. After rolling it back up, I was sure it would be cracked and chip off when we used it, but was pleasantly surprised that it didn't.. We haven't had it out in over a year now, so it will be interesting to see how it's held up through 2 winters next time we pull it out. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>After getting her done, we had to figure out what to do about the brake/blinker lights.. They worked when we had first looked at it, but at home when we tested it, they only seemed to work part of the time, and we couldn't figure out why, so John hauled the trailer down to our local mechanics and they worked on it for 2 days.. The wiring had been hooked up all backwards and screwy, so they redid all of it.... It took them a while to figure the whole thing out, and it cost a lot more than we had planned to spend, but in the end, it works, it's legal and it's one less thing we have to think about. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We ended up taking it camping with my sister and brother in law, in the UP in the middle of October.. Now, nights in October, and sometimes the days, can be quite chilly in Northern Michigan, let alone the UP... We weren't real sure how this would work out, but as it happened, it was a rare and beautiful fall weekend with temps in the high 70's, and unusually warm nights.. We did end up with a thunder storm one night, and were very pleased to find that the hard work on the ceiling and sealing all the seams had paid off.. Not one leak!! Yahoo...</i></span></div>
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<i>The winter of 2014 was incredibly hard this past year.</i></div>
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<i>Most days had temps below zero and snow up to our knees, or higher.. </i></div>
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<i>I couldn't get the Sew Sweet Cottage warm enough to work in, despite all the extra insulation I added to the windows, vents and around the bottom. </i></div>
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<i>It was a hard winter for many reasons, and by Spring, we had decided it's time for us to think about moving back to Southern Michigan.. </i></div>
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<i>Because of an unexpected turn of events, we ended up doing some remodeling in our house, and in the process, added another room to my sewing space, giving me a much larger work area. </i></div>
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<i>So, my sweet little cottage was cleaned out and all the contents were moved into the house.. </i></div>
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<i>Once spring came (we weren't sure it was ever going to arrive!), I turned the Sew Sweet Cottage back into her true self... </i></div>
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<i>My husband has always worried about hauling a large trailer, so we had purchased another small, lightweight trailer we use for camping.. Because we plan on moving in the next year or so, we made the decision to sell the trailer so someone else could use her as she was intended to be used, and my husband won't have to worry about hauling her down state.. lol.. </i></div>
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<i>I cleaned them up, sanded them, painted them ivory and added the stenciling, with a couple of coats of clear poly coat to seal the design.. </i></div>
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<i> I always thought the little bathroom area was so cute!! </i></div>
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<i>Tomi posed for one last picture with her...We've always thought Tomi felt the trailer was his. </i></div>
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<i>I took lots of pictures, put an ad on Craigs list, and she was sold within a week. </i></div>
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<i>I've sure enjoyed her for the last 5 years, but know she's gone to a good home.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I've wanted to paint the outside of our travel trailer, aka: my sewing cottage, for a couple of years now, but just couldn't find the time.. I finally just made myself find the time this summer, and she's now done.. I'm really happy with the results and was very surprised at how easy it actually was. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I had read on a trailer blog, <a href="http://mobilehomeliving.org/" target="_blank">Mobile Home Living</a>, that you can paint the exterior using Rustoleum spray paint.. Who knew? </i></span><br />
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I walked into a store called Merchandise Outlet one day and noticed they had a whole bunch of spray paint for $1.69 a can... The same paint cost $3.89 at WalMart, so I was excited.. They had quite a lot of the color "celery" and "ivory", so I decided that would be the color I'd use.. I bought 6 cans of the green and 8 cans of the ivory... In the end, I had to order another can of the green (celery) from Amazon because no one else carried it and Merchandise Outlet had sold out of it... I also purchased a couple of cans of the pink from WalMart, so all in all, I spent under $50 to paint it.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I scrubbed the trailer really well with an Rv brush and dawn dish soap! I sprayed it off really good and let it dry.. Once it was dry, I started painting from the top down.. First, though, I taped off all the windows. It only took me one day to finish it.. It really was easy to do.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Once the ivory and celery colors had been sprayed on, and it was dry (dried really fast.. it was a really warm day out), I taped off the center for the pink paint.. I used Scotch brand painters tape and nothing lifted off.. I was impressed! I just followed the same lines that already had a striped design, so it was very simple to do.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Once the pink paint was dry, I decided it needed something more, so I looked through my stencils and found one I liked..I love roses and gingham, so the two stencils I used seemed perfect. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I used acrylic craft paints to do the stenciling, and once it was dried, I sprayed it with <a href="http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/stops-rust/crystal-clear-enamel/" target="_blank">Rustoleum Clear Gloss Enable Spray</a> to protect the stenciling from the weather.. I bought that product from Walmart for $3.77 a can...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>So far, so good! I haven't noticed any fading.. It's been about 6 weeks and it looks just like it did the day I finished it.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Last thing I did was paint the window cover the same way, with a stencil and acrylic paints, then sealed it with the Rustoleum Clear Finishing spray.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I use the Sew Sweet Cottage to sew pet tents and kozy kitties, which I sell on my website <a href="http://www.karenskottage.org/" target="_blank">Karens Kottage</a>... I have a sewing room inside the house, but it is so nice having an extra sewing space! I love it out there. It's so peaceful and quiet.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>For the last several years, we've used hay bales to block air from getting under the trailer, which helps with heating it in the winter.. This year, we decided to buy pink insulation board and used that to block the air, then my husband made a little picket fence to put up against it.. We had a whole bunch of wooden rails left over from another project years ago, so that's what he used to make the little fence. I bought a can of the same ivory paint I'd used on the trailer and painted the fence with a small roller... I also painted the little porch my husband made with the ivory paint. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I didn't mention this at the beginning of this post, but it's worth mentioning. Before I did any painting on the trailer, I scrubbed the top of it really good with the RV brush, sprayed it off really well with the hose, then after it dried, I painted the top with Cool Top roof paint by DeWitt. It's an elastomeric roof coating, which helps seal any leaks and also keeps the trailer cooler in the summer by reflecting sun rays..I used a paint roller on a long handle. I painted while standing on a ladder, so I had to keep getting down, and moving the ladder to the next section, moving the paint tray, etc...It was very hot that day, so this was not a fun project, but something I knew I should do... I'm glad it's done! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We bought the Cool Top from <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/p/DeWitt-Products-Cool-Top-White-Elastomeric-Roof-Coating-312-1/202076576#.UkQ6oNJQKuI" target="_blank">Home Depot</a> for about $18 a can.. One can did the entire roof.. I also bought some Lap Sealant by Dicor to seal all roof seams.. The trailer doesn't have any leaks, and I want to keep it that way.. I couldn't find this locally, so I ordered it from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004A2YKWI/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. This is something I still need to get to before too long! Maybe this weekend??? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I didn't keep track of exactly what we spent to paint the exterior of our travel trailer, but with the roof and everything including the insulation board and picket fence around the bottom, it was well under $100... </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It's been 5 years since I first renovated our travel trailer (See blog <a href="http://traveltrailerrenovaton.blogspot.com/2013/06/remodeling-travel-trailer.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>).. She ended up being my backyard sewing studio rather than a travel trailer... I had decorated her in a pretty Coca Cola Theme 5 years ago, which was great when we were planning on using her for camping.. But since I've been using her for sewing for 4 years now, I've really wanted to redo her again and turn her into something really pretty and more sewing room friendly...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I've been trying to get done with her all summer but just couldn't seem to find the time.. I just finally decided I was going to donate an entire week to work on her, and she's now finally done...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I turned her into a very pretty and relaxing place to work... I'm not really sure what you'd call my style.. I love cottage chic, country decor and shabby chic, but I've never really followed trends.. I look through a lot of styles and seem to just pick out things I like and incorporate them into my own style.. I don't think I really have a specific style, but rather, a Karen style....</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I started by ripping down the old wallpaper, took all the cupboard doors off to be repainted and got started... I was really surprised at how well the old wallpaper had held up... I had to really work to get some of it down.. I had planned on painting the walls, but decided last minute to use a roll of wallpaper I had purchased from Lowes a couple of years ago on clearance..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Before re-wallpapering, I painted all the wood walls and cupboards cottage white.. I also painted the cupboard doors cottage white.. Since the doors were coca cola red, I used a primer first to block the red.. It worked better than I thought and I only had to add a couple of coats of the cottage white..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>My sewing table is a desk we found set out by someone's driveway with a FREE sign on it.. Love finding stuff like that!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I use my older Singer machine out here.. I have a newer machine in my sewing room in the house, but have to say, this Singer is one reliable machine! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Half of the floor is done in carpet and the kitchen area, which is now my sewing area, was done in a vinyl floor.. There was really nothing wrong with it other than I just didn't love the color, plus the previous owner had taken out the table that came with the trailer, which had left a large round area with no vinyl on it.. We had some peel and stick tiles we had purchased years ago for the house, but then decided not to use, so I decided to use some of them on this floor... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>What used to be the bedroom is now my fabric room... We had already removed the bed to add a cutting table before this redo... Since I moved my cutting table to the other end of the trailer, I was able to add more shelving and store a huge amount of fabric in this area of the trailer... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I took down the folding door that came with the trailer and spray painted it ivory... It turned out looking kind of like a big gingham print.. I was going to spray it with another layer, but decided I sort of liked it the way it looked, so I left it that way... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I can store an unbelievable amount of fabric in this room! With the doorway closed, it will stay dark in this room, which will help keep my fabrics safe from any light damage... There is a toilet, sink and shower in this room (that we've never used), but I've placed shelves so that every space available is being used to store fabric and the sink, toidy and shower are completely hidden..</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>There's a little cabinet under the window that has never really made much sense to me.. lol.. It's built over the wheel well, but it's really narrow so really doesn't work well for any type of storage... I decided to use it to display my 1954 Brother Sewing machine.. I was born in 1954 and my husband and I found this machine at a garage sale for $7... It still works, actually, I'd say it works better than many newer machines on the market today, but it does need a new cord, as someone had spliced it two or three times.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>hmmmm....That reminds me, I asked John to replace that cord for me a couple of years ago. lol.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>My son in law is career military and is stationed in Germany right now along with my daughter and three grandkids... My daughter found a really old German machine for me at a garage sale and sent a picture of it to me telling me it's my Mothers Day/Birthday Present.. The only problem is, it's heavy, and will cost a small fortune to ship home, plus there's the danger of it getting damaged... When they come home, so will my vintage machine.. I can't wait to add it to this little cabinet area...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I bought this wall decal sticker on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Heart-sayings-lettering-sticker/dp/B002BYCFP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378266909&sr=8-1&keywords=a+dream+is+a+wish+your+heart+makes" target="_blank">Amazon</a>..It's vinyl lettering that you press onto your wall, and then pull the backing paper away... It took a bit of patience to get it on there, but once it was on, it's there to stay... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>When I got all done with the inside, I decided to paint the outside! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>About 5 years ago, my husband and I bought a 1987 Taurus 21' travel trailer.. To be honest, I had been looking at those small, vintage little trailers, like the Shasta's, and wanted one to redo.. But my husband had other plans.. He thought a big one would be better..You know how men are.. The bigger the toy, the better.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We looked at a lot of trailers, new and used, but ended up buying one from a guy who listed it on Craigs List.. It was pretty cheap ($1500) and had a lot of possibilities, so I agreed with my hubby that we should buy it, even though my heart was still lusting for one of those cute little vintage trailers.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Within days of getting it home, I started remodeled it.. It didn't need heavy duty remodeling, as it was in pretty good condition, but it did need a new look.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I started looking for sites with ideas and info about remodeling a travel trailer. I found lots of info about stripping trailers down to nothing and starting over, but not a whole lot about just remodeling, or maybe a better word is, renovation...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I basically just flew by the seat of my pants and figured out what to do as I went.. It wasn't that different from redoing a room inside our house.. Well, not quite like a room in the house, but similar!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>When we bought it, it was your typical every thing is wood look.. The previous owners had just purchased a new, mattress for it and extended the bed a bit. Travel trailer mattress's tend to be smaller than a normal mattress, and the one they put in here was a standard full size mattress.. In order to make the mattress fit, they had removed the door to the bathroom and shower. There is a folding door between the livingroom and bedroom, so there was a little privacy, but not the greatest set up...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> I wasn't sure if wall paper would stay on the walls of a travel trailer, but I decided to try it anyways.. I couldn't find info on it anywhere, but I had bought a bunch of wallpaper on clearance at Lowes when they discontinued it for $2.50 per double roll. Cha Ching! I had one that was light beige with a tiny red diamond print that I really liked, so I decided to use that in the trailer..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love the color of red, and also have a thing for all things Coca Cola! Love that red and white.. I decided it'd be really neat to go with a Coca Cola theme...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Once that was dry, I painted the cabinets a light beige that matched the background of the wallpaper. I used Behr paint from Home Depot.. I really love that paint! It goes on smooth and thick, and never disappoints..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>I set up a couple of saw horses with an old door on them in our driveway to create a work bench to paint the cupboard doors.. I had taken a picture of a Coca Cola logo to Home Depot and asked them to try and create that color of red in a paint.. They did a great job! It came out perfect Coke red... I had removed the cupboard doors with the hinges still attached, so I could paint them red, too...It made it much easier putting them back up that way. I purchased a big lot of white cabinet knobs from someone on ebay for $10 to replace the knobs that came on the door. I left the little knob backplate on the doors and painted them red, too.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Turned out pretty neat, even if I do say so myself. :o)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I attached the tongue and groove boards with liquid nails instead of nails.. My husband was worried about my hitting wires that may be in the walls. The liquid nails worked great and to this day, I've never found a board that has lifted or seems loose in any way... The wallpaper has also stuck beautifully, which really surprises me considering I live in Northern Michigan where we get huge temperature changes..</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>However, looking back, I think it would have been smarter to tongue and groove the outside walls for insulation and wallpapered the interior walls.. As they say, hindsight is 20/20..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I found the red lantern wallpaper border on ebay. I had been trying to find a Coca Cola border, but the ones I found were way too expensive.. I fell in love with this one and decided it fit the whole camping theme and color scheme really well. It was also kind of pricey on most sites, but I found one roll offered on ebay for $9.99, so grabbed it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The bedroom was such a tight squeeze with the bigger mattress, I couldn't really do a whole lot in there. I tried to pull the mattress out, but it was really wedged in there. I got my hubby to try and help, but after an hour of trying to get the thing out, we gave up and I just worked around it.. It must have been a blast getting that thing in there to begin with! With the position of the cabinets overhead and the shelf, there was just no leverage to get it out...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The little "Exit" sign over the window cracked me up.. Anyhoooo..... I decided since there wasn't a lot of room to work in here, I would just add the wallpaper border over the window and tongue and groove board to the wall. They had added a shelf over the bed, which I didn't think we'd need, so I made a little mattress pad for it so Tomi, our cat, would have a comfy place of his own.. I also removed the cupboard door knobs and back plates and painted them red... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Below are some before and after pics...some are repeats of pictures above, but for some reason, I don't have a large assortment of pics available.. I saved them to some file somewhere on my computer, but can't seem to locate them.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This is a picture looking at the kitchen from the living room.. Like I mentioned, it was your typical everything was a wood paneled look. The blue striped fabric was curtains.. All the accent stuff was blue but the carpet in the living room is kind of a rust color. Not sure how that combo came to be. lol. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The previous owners had taken out the built in table and booths, and built in a cabinet that didn't quite match the others.. I wasn't quite sure what to do about that but ended up tongue and grooving it and painting the door red.. It blends in nicely now..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We found the little 2 leaf table at a garage sale for $5.. I painted it the light beige color and painted the tips of the table legs red. I found the old fashioned radio at a garage sale for $1.50.. It works and looks pretty neat!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We bought the little vintage look microwave at Wally World on sale for about $30.. The biggest "splurge" was the red coffee maker, which wasn't on sale, but only cost around $20..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I found a 5x7 rug at Kmart on sale in the perfect color combo of red with beige stripes on the ends.. It's like it was custom made for our trailer! I think it cost about $20 on sale.. I put red gingham shelf liner on top of the table, made red gingham curtains for the windows and added lace valances (also purchased on sale at Kmart)..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I already had the majority of the Coca Cola decorations, purchased a few new ones and just started filling the trailer with them...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I taped off the sides of the fridge and used a little paint roller to paint the front red...It took several coats, but turned out great.. I purchased the Coca Cola decals from ebay vendors.. The white "Coca Cola" was a pain in the behind to get on correctly, but once it was finally on, it's stayed really well.. The hand holding the coke bottle, however, was the opposite. It went on very easily, but the edges are constantly curling up.. I've gotten in the habit of running my hand over it to smooth it down every time I walk past it..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This couch is actually very comfortable. I've never pulled it out to sleep on it as a bed, but I've been known to sneak out here in the afternoon from time to time to take a little cat nap.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It took me about a month to finish the whole thing and I ended up really happy with the way it turned out.. I'm lucky that my husband trusts me to do whatever I want to rooms.. He thinks I'm loony because I never stop changing things, but he's very supportive and just stands back to see what I'm doing now...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Once the trailer was finished, I waited for us to take it camping....and waited....and waited......and waited some more...We had moved it to the back yard behind a little garden pond we had put in years ago.. We occasionally "camped" in the yard and it was very comfortable and peaceful.. We live in a very wooded location, so it did feel like camping out in the wilderness...We can hear the little pond waterfall from inside the camper and it's very relaxing.. But still...I really wanted to take her camping somewhere!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>A year went by before my husband finally confessed that he was really nervous about pulling it anywhere, he wasn't looking forward to backing it into campsites and all the rest that went with camping with a trailer. He was worried about something happening on the road pulling it and not having the knowledge to handle it.. He's the worrier in our family.. I'm the adventurer... </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In his defense, we had actually burned out the brakes on our truck hauling it home.. We had to have them replaced the day after we brought her home, which was kind of crazy since we'd just had them replaced about a year before and for the most part, my hubby only drove the truck to work and back, which was only 2 miles away.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>He has a fishing boat which he pulls with the truck and has never had a problem with it. Unfortunately, this particular trailer just didn't seem to haul smoothly.. It was located about 1 1/2 hours from our home, so hauling it home after we purchased it had given him a pretty good picture of what it pulled like... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We ended up pulling the mattress out of her and making shelves for fabric and a cutting table on the bed platform. It took us hours to get that mattress out of there. I'm sure we looked hilarious trying to figure out how to maneuver that thing, and even funnier trying to carry it out.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>But we did manage to finally get it out of there and we then spent days carrying bolts of fabric out to organize.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I have a sewing room in our house, so I was splitting up the fabric by what I use it for. Because I'm self employed and sell hand made items for a living, I have over 200 bolts of fabrics, so this was not an easy chore.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>But after a few weeks, I had pretty much organized the trailer into a cute little sewing cabin.. I took my older singer machine out there and set up a sewing area in the kitchen. All in all, it was a nice little area to work in. I've sewn out there from spring through fall, and used it year round to cut out projects.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We heat it with a Eden Pure heater and I insulate it the best I can every fall in preparation for cold weather.. I used to sew out there even in late fall and winter, but one year I was sewing orders late afternoon/early evening.. It was already dark out... My husband blew a fuse in the house (the trailer is plugged into the house electricity), only he didn't realize he had... It was pitch black out.. I sat in the dark waiting for the electricity to come back on..about 5 minutes later, I decided I needed to make my way to the house and find out what was going on.. Unfortunately, the light I leave lit on the back porch was on the same line, so it was out, too.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We have bears in our area who visit our yard after dark frequently.. Living in the boonies, there are no street lights and our neighbors are spread out so we can't see their homes from our house.. It was the longest 50 ft I ever walked. I kept hoping I didn't walk into a black bear.. lol... </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>From that time on, we decided it probably wasn't a good idea to work out there after dark.. I do all my sewing inside the house during the winter months, but enjoy sewing in my little cottage trailer the majority of the year.. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I've enjoyed the trailer as is all these years, but have decided to do another redo... Even though I've enjoyed the coca cola theme, I'm ready for a change, so I'm going to turn her into a shabby chic trailer, and have renamed her "My Sew Sweet Cottage"... </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I've already started the redo and will be posting new pics as she goes... I can't wait to see her looking very girly and sweet... </i></span><br />
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