Motorhome nearing it's makeover completion...

I will be fine if I never remodel another motorhome in my lifetime... this project has been a lot of work and hours. I am finally down to blinds, cutains, and finishing recovering the couch and bed cushion, then maybe we can finally go camping.

Here's today's preview...

The new floor, goes through the entire motorhome.
I put up wall paper on several of the walls to lighten it up a l;ittle. It looks good. I got a good deal on the wall paper, I found it in the clearance bin at Wallpaper Warehouse and only paid $20 for 4 rolls, you can't beat that.
This is where the couch goes, I've got the new cushions ready to cover and then I can put the couch back together. We got new captains chairs for the front...you can see one here, a great improvement over the olds ones.
This is the back bed area it's ready for the newly covered matress to be put back in.
I like how the kitchen turned out we made new counter tops, put in some of the white tile board from the bathroom for a back splash, new faucett, I even replaced all the hardware on the cupboard doors and drawers. I even found a stray moose papertowel holder that looks great in the new kitchen.
And last but not least Jason and Mark made me this awesome storage bench, it's a little tall for sitting but it's main purpose is storage for the dutch ovens and some other camping equipment. We don't have very much storage for this kind of stuff. I think it's going to be perfect.

Well the next pictures will be of the finished project, hopefully it won't be too much longer.

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day!

I wish my Dad was here to wish a Happy Father's Day to. Happy Father's Day Dad. I sure do miss you. It's been 5 long years since you were here to talk to... here to listen to me and give me your advice... here to play a game of monopoly with...you seemed to be the glue that held us all together. So many times in the last 5 years I've wished that you were still here,to share in all the things that have been happening in the family, to be my sounding board when things in my life seemed to be falling apart, and I know I could have come to you and just talking to you would have helped things not seem so rough, but I wouldn't have wanted you to continue to suffer with the cancer, and other health problems that seemed to come your way. So I guess this is the way it has to be, I know your in a much better place, but it doesn't make it any easier. I miss you tons. I know I'll see you again, but it seems like an eternity. I love You Dad!!!

I must be the Luckiest girl in the world to have you for a dad!!

Happy Father's Day Mark!
Thanks for being such a great dad to our children. I love you very much. Have a great Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to Jason, Shadd and Ben. I hope you'll always be the kind of dads your children can look up to. Happy Father's Day!

more Motorhome makeover...

Bathroom overhaul...
we had to gut out the whole bathroom, the back wall and ceiling had some major water damage. We tore off all the old paneling clear to the studs, and metal on the outside. We replaced the insulation and put up white tile board.


Jason helped me with the bathroom, we took out both windows before we put up the tile paneling, then we replaced the windows.

We also put white tile board in the shower.



We bought a new toilet, but will keep the sink and tub that were already in it. We're now ready for the new flooring, counter top, toilet install, curtains and a shelf across the back wall.


Mark and Shadd have been working on replacing the vent over the cab, unfortunately the rain, caused a little havoc with their new sealing job, and we had a flood on the bed over the cab...oops. Now we have a tarp covering most of the roof until it decides to quit raining, and it can be fixed. I told Mark we'll just take a tarp with us when we go camping and cover the motorhome, then we won't have to worry about leaks.


Kitchen Makeover....
I replaced the floor in the kitchen area clear down to the stud floor, the floor was very mushy and rotted. I pried all the old wood tiles up, then I had to chisel all the way around the cabinets in order to get the bad floor out. This was quite a job. Then we put in a new sub floor, and a new base floor for the new laminate that will go in the whole motorhome. I just keep telling myself it will all be worth it... It will won't it?

now we're on to the kitchen. While I was trying to pull off wall paper I realized the back wall was soft...guess what more water damage. Well I got some of the wall paper off then had to leave it, well we've been getting a lot of rain and I went out yesterday morning to check on it and the back wall was leaking, looks like it's coming in through the stove fan vent, so we put some temporary caulking around it til we can pull it out and reseal it. We didn't find any damage in the cupboard above the vent so thats good, at least it's not coming in through the roof.

We're going to put up new paneling, wallpaper, and put in a new counter top. This has been a big project. We should have the kitchen put back together in a couple of days.

At least the rain is helping us find all the leaks.

Bernie 2003-2010

Isn't bernie the cutest puppy...eventually this cute little puppy turned into a 200 lb Bernie.

He was very mischevious...we tried to make him a house dog, but he turned out to be an outdoor dog. Because he was an outdoor dog he got neglected a lot, and that makes me sad. We still loved him, he was part of our family. He was very protective of his territory, when he did get out of his kennel to play, you always got slimed (big time).

Bernie liked to sleep in tight spots, usually with his nose in the corner.

These 2 pictures were taken last summer, 2009.

Bernie liked to sneak in the house whenever he could, if you left the back door ajar, he would push his way in. St. Bernard's are very smart dogs. Bernie was a great dog, we'll miss him. We had Bernie for 7 years and a couple of months, that's a pretty long life for a St. Bernard. If I were young and we still had young kids...I might consider a 3rd St. Bernard, I've loved our dogs.

Good-bye for now...

Bernie earned a special spot, to be buried, close to Sami.

Motorhome Makeover

So Mark and I decided to buy a motorhome. We found an older one, with low miles in our neighborhood. Mark's opinion was that we would just need to replace the curtains, and clean it up and we'd be good to go. My opinion was that we'd need to replace curtains, carpet, upholstery, fridge...it needed alot of updating. so here we begin our remodeling project. Hoping to be done in a week or two so we can go camping...I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

This is our new motrohome...

Here are some before pictures....

Stayed tuned for some more motorhome remodling... our remodeling project has become a monster. We've had to move our camping back a while, hopefully by august we'll get to try it out.

So far we've had all the fluids changed, it passed emmissions and inspection; we had the roof checked out and caulked; we've found some major water damage, especially to the bathroom, so now we have gutted the bathroom; we've replaced the kitchen floor clear down to the studs and pulled out all the carpet. We're in the process of redoing the ceiling because some of the vinyl was coming off and we're working on the bathroom. I'll post some more pics in a few days. I just keep telling myself it will be worth it...it's too late to turn back now, we're already invested in this thing.