Now although the title is rather silly, picking the color to paint your RV is no joke. And honestly, I highly recommend painting no matter how much you don't mind the wallpaper. My husband and I intended to do just an accent wall and ended up painting the entire place and we are extremely glad that we did. Not only does it help to get rid of that camper smell, it makes the place feel like a real home by bringing a touch of our personality to the standard assembly line 5th wheel.
First, pick your color inspiration! We decided on a ten dollar pillow from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It was extremely elegant containing golds, silvers, brown, and cream. It's definitely a color that you do not normally see in a 5th wheel and contained many usable colors that would assist in making the place home.
We weren't sure what colors were exactly right. We picked a color called Sandie Pecan and Brown Suede. We thought the Sandie Pecan would be the accent wall but it ended up being to light. We then picked the Brown Suede out and liked it much more for the accent wall, and made the final decision to paint the entire house with the Sandie Pecan using the Brown Suede to accent. In total, with three adults working,
including paint pick up time, etc., we have taken about 10 hours to
paint with the bedroom and bathroom still requiring the second coat.
I began by cleaning and bleaching everything down. It was pre-owned by a
couple who used it rarely. It had been locked up throughout the winter
and spelled stale and contained some left over rotting food that
required a good clean out!
Some changes definitely needed to be made throughout this thing in order to make it a beautiful space that my husband, Kitty and I would be calling home for about the next 6-7 years at the shortest.
Blue's favorite space was the garage. I think it was because there was nothing in it making it easy for him to see, sniff, and experience our new space.
This is the view (slide outs closed) from the garage facing toward the front.
YUP, I was such a happy cleaner xp
As the night went on I decided it was safe to pull all the slides out. Our home becomes very spacious and an enjoyable space that I can envision holidays, sleepy days, and in general the a place to finally call our own!
This provides the best pre-remodel view of the 5th wheel. Some of our basic plans include painting, taking out the cabinets below the TV and extending the counters, moving the sink, putting in a dishwasher, changing the loft into storage, replacing furniture, creating shelving space, putting in skylights in the kitchen, and overall adding a touch of femininity to the place. As a toy hauler the overall theme is a man's retreat with bottle cap opener and all!
First to start we removed all non essential items, including the couch (that will not be going back), outlet covers, lighting fixtures, and those
HIDEOUS (I cannot extenuate it enough) window fixtures. Then we picked out our colors. It was then time to move onto the dreaded painting. To tape off and paint the entire slide out myself took about three hours. One of our friends came over to help, he painted and my husband taped and it took us about 6 hours to complete, almost two coats on the entire main living space. The following day my husband and I began some touch ups and finished the second coat, and moved onto the bedroom and bathroom. To paint almost an entire 30ft trailer (we are not painting the garage) with 2 coats we highly recommend at least a gallon of your main color and about a quart for any accent colors. For taping off you will need at least three rolls of tape!
Sorry this picture is sideways I am to lazy to flip it, but I wanted a picture of our first meal in our new home. (Note to those cooking make sure to place the rack on one of the upper shelves as the burner in the bottom will burn the bottom of your food, while not cooking the top.)
Here is the general color concept. I do not currently have picture of the finished product as we have had family visits and illnesses over the past week which has hindered our remodel of home. Our next step will be taking out flooring and putting in a new laminate that should further increase the homey feel. For those that are wondering, I will be posting in excess about taking the flooring our and putting it in for the slide outs as I personally have found no information on exactly how to complete this task. So it should be fun.
Finally, I will post updated pictures hopefully this weekend once I have finished painting the bedroom and bathroom, and removed the flooring.
Happy 5th wheeling!
Victoria
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