Making more room for storage…

SO for the last few months we have been parked. A friend from church had a 1100 sq foot guest house that was sitting empty. SO I drained our tanks… bleached them out, emptied the water heater, and we parked. It works out well. It gives us time to make some adjustments and modifications to our RV while providing much needed help for our friend.(Childcare and house cleaning help!) =)

In case you don’t remember, or are not familiar with my RV, let me refresh you. I have a 1987, 24 foot  Honey RV. It has a chevy engine and sleeps 4-5.

Now we spent 6 months living in the RV on a local farm. We learned a few things during that time. We also got to do a lot of hands on maintenance during that time. It was fun though.

During that time we replaced our AC unit, we replaced the toilet, we replaced some water tubing/pipes, and we tore up the floor and put down laminate “wood” floors. We also went through a phase of wanting to redo our roof, but it cost to much to under take right now, so we just learned how to be really good sealers. Ha!

For this next time we are a little more prepared. In the closets there is no normal closet clothes rod. Its more like a single metal bar across the top with little bitty holes in it. You put the hangers thru the holes.

There are a few problems this presented:

1. We had all plastic hangers and they were two big to put more than one into th hole. SO we had to switch out to all metal hangers. What a pain!

2. You can fit two to three hangers in the holes using the metal hangers, however… this also means your clothes are extremely smooshed together!

I decided to prevent these issues from happening again, I am going to go real simple like and put in some tension shower rods. They cost anywhere from $7.99 to $11.99 at your local Target. And the best part.. it only took about 5 minutes to install! Love it!

Another issue I want to correct before we move back in is the whole oven/stove top issue. My issue with this appliance is my own. No one else in my family has this issue.

I am scared to death to cook on the thing! lol… I am much happier with eating RAW, using the microwave and using the propane grill outside!  Just the thought of trying to cook in such a small area… and it being propane… I just know I will manage to blow us up somehow!! lol…

Because of this I used the oven as a small storage area. It really wasn’t very big at all. I am going to change that though.

Before we move in to the RV full time again, I am going to RIP that oven/stove top out! I am going to build in a shelf or two, put on a cabinet door, and fill the hole in my counter top with a butcher block type slab top.

Make sense? I Hope so!!

Stay tuned for pictures and info when that project gets underway!

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