Stage four of the Caravan Reno

We have both been pretty busy over the last few weeks….Mal finishing off the painting and spray painting and my new sewing machine has been well and truly broken in…the caravan is starting to look very cosy indeed!!!

I have recovered all the old seating, made an upholstered headboard for the bed (when we find one) and made a division curtain for the bedroom and I have yet to make a little curtain for the door window – I got 20 metres of upholstery material when we were in Perth and I will be using up every little bit of it.  I am really pleased with how they have all turned out.

We put up the blinds that we brought from Bunnings while we were in Perth and they look really good too.

Today I spent the day laying the carpet tiles in the bedroom area and the floor plank tiles in the kitchen area – wow they look really awesome!!

One of the guys from Mal’s work has made a new kitchen benchtop for us which looks fantastic too so we can’t wait to get that on.

We have yet to sort out the new handles for the cupboard doors and we have to fit the splashbacks on the kitchen before we can put the benchtop in. 

Unfortunately I found out today that we have 3 leaks in the caravan (thanks to it finally raining) so we will have to sort out where they are coming from…pretty good timing really as I would hate to have had everything sorted and then found out we had a leak!!!Here are some piccies of our progress…

Stage Three of the Caravan Reno

We had another Sunday off together so got stuck in to the caravan again today - on to the fun stuff now...top coat!!

We thought we were going to be in for a cooler day to paint in the van with the forecast telling us it was going to be cloudy with a chance of a storm...typical Kalgoorlie turned out brilliant blue sky and sunny - so by mid avo the van was like a little torture chamber again.

We did however get one good coat on and some parts second coated but we have run out of paint so back to Bunnings for us again.  Here are some piccies of progress so far....we are really pleased with how she is looking so far...

looking in to the bedroom - you might be able to see the door colour..only one coat on them so far

looking from the bedroom...we are putting stainless steel splashbacks below the kitchen windows

the bedroom again

the dinette area

bedroom

cupboard doors..only one coat on them so far

We have some excitement happening in Kalgoorlie this week...Ewan McGregor and a few other actors are going to be around town filming the Son of a Gun movie...they wanted extras however some of us have to work for a living......

Kalgoorlie-Boulder Pure Gold shared a link via SON OF A GUN - Film.

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Not long now... we can't wait to welcome Ewan and the rest of the cast to Kalgoorlie Boulder!

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I am going to start recovering the cushions and headboard for the van this week - get to take my brand new sewing machine out of its box.....

Stage Two of the Caravan Reno

Well over the long Easter weekend Mal got stuck in to the caravan - lucky sod had the whole 4 days off, while muggins me had to go to work and only had a rostered day off coincidentally on the Sunday.  Oh woe is me.....

anyway....Mal did very well, got 85% of the caravan undercoated and got the benchtop out so that we can get a new one made.  He has been pottering round trying to sort out the interesting electrics in the van also.

Yesterday I got the wonderful job of sanding back all the cupboard doors and undercoating them - needless to say I am thankful that that horrible task is now behind me and we can get on to the fun stuff....putting the colour back in to the van!!!

Here are our piccies...

looking in to the bedroom area- the dark areas are inside the cupboards which we have decided not to paint

the kitchen with the benchtop gone and the old woodgrain colour...so much brighter with that covered up 

the side of the van where the dinette seating is 

the cupboard doors

We have chosen our colours for the inside and looking forward to putting up our next lot of photos....