Re-upholstery!

When we first bought the trailer, it looked like this.  The upholstery was not in bad shape -- a little dirty, but okay, but it didn't really work with my design plans.  So, we pulled out all of the old fabric and foam pieces.  First we sprayed them judiciously with Bac-Out, and laid them in the sun for a full day.  The next day, we sprayed them with homemade Febreeze (a mixture of fabric softener and water in a spray bottle), and let it bleach again in the sun for a full day. 


I decided that I was going to go with a blue/green/cream theme, instead of the prior ideas we'd had, because we just really fell in love with that combo, plus my daughter was disturbed that we would do a blue door with no interior tie in (she's a fashion guru). 

I found these delightful fabrics at the fabric store.  I thought they worked well together, and was a fun modern twist on vintage/retro.  All of the seat bottoms will be in the green, the back of the kitchen banquet is in the fabric on the far left, while the back of the couch/main bed is in the middle fabric. 

All of the re-upholstery has now been done, but there was no foam in the trailer for the upper bunk.  I have found this foam that should work fine to be applied to a plyboard backing, and then covered in likely plain green for the top bunk.That will happen in the next week or two.

I also removed all of the old curtains and roller blinds, and have purchased new fabric for the curtains.  Haven't gotten around to making those, yet, though.  We will also be purchasing white roller blinds for all the windows. Total fabric price, without foam purchase or blinds, is $150 right now.

Flooring -- Part One

 

We pulled all of the old faux wood vinyl off of the floor that we could.  This linoleum is gorgeous.  It did, however, take almost an entire bottle of Goo Gone, and Adam and I were on the floor with butter knives scraping for about an hour and a half to get all of the old oozy glue off.  But we did it!  And it is so pretty.  There is a slight dip in the floor/linoleum right in front of the door, and there is a patch missing right in front of the bed in the far back, so we decided to take that opportunity to divide the space a bit.  We ordered a box of commercial grade vinyl in a coordinating green from Home Depot.  We plan on laying that flooring in the back by the bed, and right by the door, then place thresholds in between the areas.  It will define the spaces, and be a good fix to the flooring issue all at the same time.

Yellow and Blue -- Oh My!

 

Exterior painting -- done!  That's right.  The yellow and white are both done, and it was not hard at all.  I am totally impressed by Rustoleum spray paint.  And because, I cannot leave a something like the door boring and beige, we went with... you know... turquoise. It's just so lovely.