Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Twenty-two – Finishing Touches in the Kitchen
In this post, the kitchen will transform from a bunch of crisscrossing lumber to something resembling an actual kitchen.
How To Create A Beautiful Butcher Block Countertop Out Of Reclaimed Barn Wood
In this post, I’m going to show you how I built a butcher block countertop for our trailer kitchen out of wood I reclaimed from the old barns on the farm. Butcher block is a beautiful, durable, functional countertop material that gives a strong sense of farmhouses, old-fashioned cooking, and home. It requires slightly more maintenance than other kinds of countertop, but I look at it as a way of making sure you clean your countertops off regularly. When it came time to choose what material I wanted for my countertop, it was no choice. Butcherblock has always been my favorite and I couldn’t wait to finally cook in a kitchen with these beautiful counters.
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Sixteen – How To Build a Tiny Kitchen
This post is about the process of constructing my kitchen shelving. For information about my planning process and my amateur design drawings, see Part 15.
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Fifteen – How to Design a Tiny Kitchen
Let’s start this post off with a clarification: I’m not building cabinets for my kitchen. I’m not buying cabinets for my kitchen. There will be no cabinets in my kitchen at all!
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Fourteen – Painting the New Walls
It’s time for that magical moment when the Wind Rose starts to look like a home again. I’m putting the walls back on!
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Thirteen – What’s So Exciting About Insulation?
What’s so exciting about insulation? Imagine a cozy, warm, travel trailer surrounded by snow on a dark winter night. That’s what insulation does for you.
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Eleven – It’s Electric!
It’s finally time to start renovations on the Interior of the Wind Rose! The first step in getting the interior ready is electricity.
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part Three – Demolition in the Kitchen
I started by removing the dinette because it was the easiest to get at and I wanted to get rid of it anyway. The dinette provides storage space under the seats and turns into a bed, which for a lot of families can be really helpful. For us, it isn’t. We still have the jackknife couch if we need to sleep a guest (or a few kids), and the dinette is not comfortable as an everyday seating area. Also, it takes up a lot of floor space and wall space that I need for my kitchen counters. Taking it apart involved my power screwdriver to get out the brackets that connected it to the floor. I also had to unscrew the table from the wall. The rest of the dinette was held together with staples, and it was pretty flimsy. A few kicks and good hard tugs and I had it apart.
Travel Trailer Renovations: Part One – How To DIY an Old Camper For Full-Time Living
In this blog I’m giving All the details about the process to DIY an old camper for full-time living, as performed by a woman with No experience in construction.