84 Shasta Motorhome Rebuild/ Repair

Mudshovel wrote:

BoxerPitMix wrote:

Mudshovel wrote:


I checked out your camper I like the choice of paneling and the rough cut cedar but my favorite is the indirect lighting at the floor line. I'm going to steal that idea for my motorhome!
Seeing your work I can only emagine what you could do to a older model class A. Mine did turn out to be a little more rougher than I would have liked but fortunately the real expensive stuff like drive train and apliances (except the fridge) all work great, the rest is just wood, glue and staples and I didn't pay much for it and really don't have that much money into it so far. I do have a bunch of labor invested but I don't really count that when it's for myself.

Well happy hunting (craigslist) I try to stay away as there is always some kind of project to buy!

Thanks! The indirect lighting I thought was pretty cool, too! I actually picked up about $500 of supplies to start my horse trailer LQ yesterday, and looked for those lights - Couldn't find them anywhere! I got the ones in the pictures at Lowe's, but neither Lowe's or HD had them. Gonna have to look up some stuff online.
For the walls in my LQ I'm gonna go with the birch paneling just like I put in that popup 36" up with some sort of chair rail, then from there up to the ceiling is going to be covered in a fake leather I found at Hobby Lobby. Sounds wierd, but it actually looks great. If you google horse trailer LQ's you'll see a lot of them do that(Sierra conversions are some of my favorites, they do that a lot).

If all the appliances/etc work great, I'd keep them! I fixed up an old motorhome a little bit for a guy (nearly identical to yours) and I just painted everything an off-white color. Made a world of difference from the old dark brown!