Camper Updates

Our room: 

Chase is no longer sleeping on a camper queen sized bed with his shins hanging off. 🙌🏼 A camper queen size bed is five inches shorter than a regular queen size bed. We did this for over a year and it was okay but now having a true size queen it’s definitely an upgrade! This new mattress is longer than the bed support so I built some shelves to support the mattress and then turned them into shoe storage as well! We gave up a narrow walking space between the bed and the wall, but we’ll take the longer bed and shoe storage any day!

And yes we did get more wallpaper and covered the door! So now it’s a whole wall of beauty 😉 

The kitchen/living area: 

The kitchen faucet has been replaced…again! RV replacement parts are usually plastic and just do not hold up as fell as your normal household items. That’s what happened to our first faucet. I had replaced it when we moved into the camper. The pressure was fading and the finish was peeling off. I had contacted the company and they sent me a new one about 6 months ago but it started peeling too. It was plastic 😬 So out with it and in with the new! The one is more of a normal residential faucet, hoping it holds up longer! So far so good on that aspect! Also changed the color now a matte black vs the previous brushed nickel…goes better with the table we had put in! This also led to new handle hardware too! Because you know it’s just all a domino effect! Merrick loved helping take off the old handles and I appreciated the help! 

We had a tad bit leftover wall paper from our room that I put around the door, the big slide out and around the wall of cabinets. Lightened all those spots up a bit and brought it all together. 

Boys room: 

Merrick got a big bed!! You can’t super tell in the pictures but it used to be a crib mattress on the floor which did the trick….but it was time (since he’ll be FOUR next month!!!)! Now he has a mattress the full length of his slide out. The mattress is from the bunk above him (our storage space) and the wooden drawers and frame are scraps from some the apartment/office that was remodeled. To date he has not rolled off 🙌🏼 and sleeps on it just fine! With three new drawers full of storage space underneath his mattress, it’s a camper dwellers dream.🤣

Cost: 

Mattress- Christmas Present (thank you Mom & Dad!) 

Mattress support/ shoe shelving- free scrap wood I found in the barn

Faucet- Christmas present (thank you Brad & DeeAnn)

Handles- $31 ($26 on Amazon for 30….but I needed 31 so I went to the local hardware store and paid $5 for one more 🙈) 

Merricks bed- free from the scrap pile

Total: $31 😉 and I suppose we could turn that into $21 since someone did buy the old faucet for $10 on market place!