Earlier this year I bought a small travel trailer to move in. I thought it would be a little bit of work. But it turned out to be much more.

I’m not a carpenter. I don’t work with wood. I was winging the whole thing.

I took some pictures along the way. I just finished all the paint this weekend. I made it into a creamsicle on the inside. Next weekend trim and cabinets will be started upon! Then finally, a wood floor and decoration. It has been a long trip.

I was going to wait until this was 100% to share pictures, but this will be fun anyway.

Here is how it began. The wall had water damage so I thought I would just repair the corner and be done:

I was wrong. There was a lot more water damage that I thought. I’ll eventually post the rest of my photos, but I’m just focusing on one corner. I started to rebuild the framework on the entire trailer:

Once I made a new framework and felt confident on how sturdy everything felt, I started to replace the walls:

Once the walls were replaced and sanded, I primed them with an orange tint primer, which dried to be a horrid pink. I also stripped and painted the ceiling an offwhite called “sand trap.”

The primer dried really well, and I put two coats of satin “Burst of Orange” paint. The pictures make it look much brighter than it is. In regular lighting it is a nice, mellow orange that will look great in a warm tungsten light.

This makes it look a little better, not as bright and glaring:

The next coming weeks will be very exciting with floors, cabinets, decorations, and then packing. It will have a small fridge, 12v and 110v lighting, a small stove, lots of storage and other nifty tricks.

Then into the great beyond!