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Today, we had the best of intentions to do a coat or two of paint on the walls. We were pumped and excited to have this milestone accomplished. You know, every day we are excited and ready to accomplish a large task, something happens that totally derails our plans....

From day one we knew that the entire bathroom would need to be remodeled to make it functional again. Nightmare. We had ripped out every inch of the old bathroom and decided to reconfigure the entire room to accommodate a different location. I knew that I did not want...

Right now, we are in the middle of a pandemic with the COVID-19 virus. While we are choosing to see the blessing of more time to work on the airstream, we still wish we were back in our regular routines, teaching and socializing each day. I have been out of work for...

With wiring completed and waterproofing triple-checked, we knew it was time to put up the walls. We were excited. This would be the step in which we would feel like we were in an actual trailer again. I got out my handy dandy drawings I had expertly crafted, sketched,...

Our lights were busted and broken, rusted out completely. We knew this was going to be a task for us to accomplish at some point. Now that we are close to the point of being totally waterproof and framing out the bathroom in the back, we needed to complete this step-...

We had two vent fans in our airstream- one in the front and one in the bathroom. The front fan was disgusting when we bought the airstream. It had a bunch of wasp nests in it and had taken its fair share of wear and tear. We were not even confident that the fan in it...

This was, in my opinion, one of our greatest victories in our renovation. Our interior walls were filthy, moldy, and covered in mouse droppings. Early on in our project, we removed the walls and labeled them all, drawing a map to put them back up as we went. We put...

Taking a deep breath before I write this one, friends. It still gets me mad every time I think about it. We ordered an air conditioning/heating unit from ETrailers MONTHS ago. And it sat, in its box on the front porch at the farm. We knew it would be used at some...

This was a day I dreaded. The day I would inevitably have to Michelangelo our Airstream. Friends, this was the day I needed to get under Airstream and paint the underside of the subfloor with undercoating. If you remember from a previous article, this is when I ended...

We are using propane for two things in our airstream: the hot water heater and the range. This made it relatively simple to run one line down the left (driver's side). Eventually, we would love to run a line over for a grill hook up on the passenger's side under a new...