Instead of Remodeling, We Bought a Camper!
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Our family is growing (with grandchildren) and we are running out of sleeping room up at the lake. Last spring we bought this old canned ham and made her into our Bunkhouse, her name is Betty Lou! The cost on this project does not include the cost of the camper which was $800.00.
Before picture...
The previous owner had just painted the blue on the outside and we just had to repaint the white. I considered redoing the color but decided I would work with it.
After picture
Onto the inside...I tore out the entire inside except for the refrigerator section. The hubs and I constructed a frame for a double mattress with storage underneath.
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After...
When I made the curtains, I ran out of the orange paisley fabric and would you believe Joann's had discontinued it! Eek, that is frustrating to a crafter! Oh well, I was happy with the fabric I found and it worked out I had a little left for the banner window cover.
Because Betty Lou is a Bunkhouse, I took out the sink and range top and amazingly enough my brother-in-law had the counter top in his garage and was willing to part with it (I love the word free).
We were lucky that all the cushions were in excellent shape and did not smell musty. I made the new covers and pillows and loved the end result.
Flooring before...
I love vinyl plank flooring! We put a sub floor over the top of the old linoleum and I installed this flooring easy peasy. It was the click and lock method, again, very easy.
The family LOVES the end result of our bunkhouse! Our granddaughter calls it her very own playhouse and with her brother, they spend hours playing in her. The hubs and I had so much fun doing this camper, we started a second one!
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Very nice job enjoy Betty lou
LOVE THIS!!! Just have to tell my story of a "recycled travel trailer:" My husband & I married our last yr of college. Crazy! But, a great & good decision for our personal futures. My parents lent us their 19-foot travel trailer/brought it to us fr MD, installing in a rural VA trailer park, near our college. Didn't look as good as your remodeled trailer, but we took out dinette area/installed a custom folding table & 2 folding chairs that took up next to no room when collapsed. We then had a little "living room" but could have friends in if we had guests, like my bro-in-law and future wife who were at the same school. Of course, we used the double bed, but the double bunk above was storage. Our little kitchen was really decent w/ refrigerator/stove/oven/sink and cabinets. All appliances, including lights, could be run on gas or electricity. WE also lived pretty well with the bathroom/shower. We even had room for our dog :) We had a decent compact TV and radio. Life was good. Many local trailer population worked in a commercial chicken processing plant & would anonymously put boxes of chicken pot-pie on our doorstep. We never knew who did this, but loved our trailer park community for it. We finished college & both went on to good things with this "bargain basement start"...My husband a PhD psychologist...me an EdD educator. The rest of the story is...my parents never knew what to do w/old travel trailer & so they did nothing, until they saw an ad years later fr nearby town in MD for a family who wanted to use it as an "adjunct home" on their property. They sold it to this family who explained that they wanted to use if for the SAME reason that my husband & I needed it: to help newlyweds through college. Quite the story of a travel trailer that didn't travel much :)