Sunday, July 24, 2016

I love Ikea.

We  decided to refurnish our living area.   After feeling cramped, disorganized  and gloomy,  we decided to make some  changes.   We went to  Ikea for some ideas to replace our existing  leather couch.  We need a bed for when  we have  guests.    Our first  thought  was an air mattress.   During our visit to Ikea  we went to the couch /futon area.    We had a few choices.    We even  decided on one.    As we continued on our trek through  the  store I spied a kitchen  island.    I  thought we could  use it for  a  table,  counter.  We would  access  the  shelves below by cutting  openings in the divider below.     The possibilities  are  warming  up  now.    We continued out with  some ideas.   When we came upon  the daybed section.   I  saw a white daybed.    It has storage  below it.     .    We continued and left with our ideas.    We went home.   Came up  with  a  time plan,    we listed our old couch  on Craigslist and sold it in an hour.    We returned a week later and purchased our new furniture.     We came  home and started the  project.    We used gorilla wood glue as we assembled.   We started  with the island.    It wasn't too bad.    The daybed  was next.     We ordered our mattresses so we needed to  wait for them to come in.    But the difference  surely  lifted the mood in the Rv.    It's  bright  useful  and cleaner.   The next day was rearrange  storage of our stuff.    I moved into the drawers with linens.  Norm moved to  the  less accessible old linen area.     I  love it. This was definitely needed.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

New rv decal

July 10, 2016  Today  we applied the new decal  to  the  back of the rv.   I had heard of  a place that makes decals  from  a  personal picture.   Ann,  another  camphost  had given  me  the idea.    I tried to use a picture Fort Desoto,  site  128  (our wedding  location), with  a  silhouette  of our recently deceased dog.    I was told by the online  place  that the picture  wasn't high enough quality.   So I had given  up.   One day  I stopped  at Camaro signs in Norwich,  CT.    Valerie,  a graphic  designer  there,  quickly  assisted me.  She obtained the picture from  Dropbox,  then edited and added a black  border.  The picture  was $128.    Ready  in two days.    I  removed the  old stickers,  and used buffers and rubbing compound  to remove  the Shiney ghosting left behind.    Our neighbors Martin and  Kathy,  assisted  to install  it.    Big thanks  to  Martin!   Anyway  it is done and we love it.