by Lauren Dietrich | Apr 12, 2020 | Renovation Blog, Uncategorized
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,...
by Lauren Dietrich | Apr 8, 2020 | Renovation Blog, Uncategorized
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-...
by Lauren Dietrich | Apr 4, 2020 | Renovation Blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Lauren Dietrich | Apr 2, 2020 | Renovation Blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Lauren Dietrich | Apr 2, 2020 | Renovation Blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Lauren Dietrich | Mar 26, 2020 | Renovation Blog, Uncategorized
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...
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