Today: Curtains, Bathroom Door Hold-Open, and Keys.
We've had the curtains done now for quite some time. Well - we still have to do the one for the entry door, maybe something in the bath, and still install the truck cab window cover, and a bit-o-stuff additionally, but other than that - they're done!
Here's the fabric we chose. Pine cones! You know - our little cabin in the woods thing.
And the liner fabric (supposed to be black-out, and it does a fair job at that) facing outward.
That's the back side of the curtain to cover this window.
We're thinking velcro tabs in the four corners.
And this window has no cover yet.
Hey! DW's busy! She's making a very time-consuming quilt with tiny pieces (you know - for scale), and being a GMA and stuff. She ain't laying around painting her nails, in other words!
So here's how they cover. And we found they blend in too well. After a shake down cruise, and we get familiar with their function, DW is thinking about adding a prairie-wheat trim band (like the camper interior trim pieces) around each curtain in a picture frame-like style, to set things off better, and to give a bit larger overall dimension, as my original numbers, read out to DW, may have been a bit too lesser.
Those up top on the slanted vee-nose? We're also thinking velcro tabs at their bottom corners, to secure them outside of the vertical hang.
And all pulled back.
The bathroom door swings nicely - too nicely. It needs a secure, in the open mode, back toward the entry door, but without banging and damaging any finished surfaces. So I tried several things that didn't work. I settled on this.
A simple J bolt from Tractor Supply, of a large enough diameter to prevent slop, and long enough to be effective, but short enough to fit.
At the ceiling high point, you can slip the bolt into the top of the door stiffener and rest it in normal mode like this.
Then in hold-open mode, you lift and hook it over the water pipe.
And from a distance.
Here the other day, I took out the access hatch locks and ran them over to the lock smith, where we got them all keyed the same. I had to buy two new tumblers in "short" to replace the un-keyable cheapos that came in the two water hatch doors.
Upon install I positioned each to turn the same way, and to be straight up and down in "unlock", sideways in "lock", so at a glance you can tell if a door is locked or not, and in the dark, or after a couple beers, you don't have to wonder "which way does this one turn". I like conformity on stuff like this.
These three...
And this one.
Bunch of pieces. I had to fine tune some of them to fit and work well after I got back home from the locksmith.
And finally, a set of keys (now consisting of only the house key, and the single access doors key) on my key ring, and this design set up for the "spare set".
I used a heavier chain link painted Orange for Tow-Mater's spare set. For Lil' Queeny, I gave her a little more subtlety in chain link sizing, and in finish - with a touch of silver, and a copper band! All her metal colors. She deserves it. :)
