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RVcircus
Explorer II
Nov 10, 2015

Update on our rebuild with tour

Last year we rebuilt our travel trailer and realized we never posted any after photos or updates since. The build thread is in my signature if you haven't seen it and I've posted an update to our blog with a quick summary.

Here's a link to the tour of our travel trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CHmcgquP2g

Here's a link to our latest blog post with summary of work we did inside
http://www.rvcircus.com/tour-of-our-travel-trailer/

What do you guys think? Anything you would have done differntly?
  • RVcircus's avatar
    RVcircus
    Explorer II
    Nov 14, 2015
    Thanks for the feedback! My wife does all the hard work which turns out to be decorating and picking colors. I'm not allowed to do anything that's remotely related to decorating;)

    Aluminum Siding wrote:
    Wow! great job. I absolutely love it. It looks 10 times better than our pre-fab off the lot cheezy hotel looking interior! Thanks for sharing.
  • Aluminum_Siding's avatar
    Aluminum_Siding
    Explorer
    Nov 14, 2015
    Wow! great job. I absolutely love it. It looks 10 times better than our pre-fab off the lot cheezy hotel looking interior! Thanks for sharing.
  • RVcircus's avatar
    RVcircus
    Explorer II
    Nov 12, 2015
    Thanks! I think we have more sweat into the trailer than cash, but it was all worth it. It was a fun (and sometimes frustrating) project that will hopefully give us years of enjoyment.

    dspencer wrote:
    Great job on the redo! Hat's off to you and your wife for taking the time and money to turn it into a very nice trailer.
  • RVcircus's avatar
    RVcircus
    Explorer II
    Nov 12, 2015
    Thanks. The Smart Tiles were easy to install, cheap (somewhat), and look great. It took me about an hour and a half while recording, so it wasn't too bad.

    danimal53 wrote:
    looks great, I'm a fan of the stick-on back splash also. we were trying to figure out a back splash and you gave me a great idea
  • dspencer's avatar
    dspencer
    Explorer
    Nov 12, 2015
    Great job on the redo! Hat's off to you and your wife for taking the time and money to turn it into a very nice trailer.
  • danimal53's avatar
    danimal53
    Explorer
    Nov 12, 2015
    looks great, I'm a fan of the stick-on back splash also. we were trying to figure out a back splash and you gave me a great idea
  • RVcircus's avatar
    RVcircus
    Explorer II
    Nov 12, 2015
    I just found the can and we used Killz 2 primer and it's held up great after a year just in case anyone's interested. I thought we use Premium or Max, but I guess it works just fine in this case and the cabinets were fairly dark to start.
  • RVcircus's avatar
    RVcircus
    Explorer II
    Nov 10, 2015
    I've used Killz to cover stains on painted walls before, but I thought the guy at the paint store was full of it when he said to use it on wallpaper & fake wood cabinets. So far so good though.

    2012Coleman wrote:
    X2 on the Kilz primer. I sanded and repainted all the stained woodwork in my house, and used it. Much better tan standard primer - the wood looks like new!
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    2012Coleman
    Explorer II
    Nov 10, 2015
    X2 on the Kilz primer. I sanded and repainted all the stained woodwork in my house, and used it. Much better tan standard primer - the wood looks like new!
  • RVcircus's avatar
    RVcircus
    Explorer II
    Nov 10, 2015
    I've gotten so much info from others on the site and hope these posts can help someone else. Thanks for checking it out!

    westend wrote:
    Good job on the rehab and great job on the documentation! We can use all the pictures and information we can get to make RV life easier. That leaves more time to enjoy RV'ing with the family, the best part of this hobby.

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