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She's got her official name-plate now!

For me it is the little details that have come together so beautifully that really make her feel complete, and magical. 

I love to just sit in her and look around. We don't have to be going anywhere at all.

Here's some more:

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I got this from a real sign in a train station somewhere in India. It sets the tone, doesn't it?

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Custom hand-made pillows by The Woman on The Verge. Her hands and eye made all of this possible.

The conductress.

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Here you can see the view from the entry door. See our chandelier? Another brilliant addition by the Woman on The Verge.

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We were supposed to take her out this weekend, but I dropped the ball, so no camping for us.

Maybe next weekend.

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Still to do:

1. Waterproof and seal the roof.
2. Replace the old vents and vent covers.
3. Tear off the front wall, rebuild the damaged framing, put back together.
4. Strip and sand the exterior.
5. Exterior paint job.
6. Prep, prime, and paint the frame and bumper.
7. Prep, prime, and paint the wheels.
8. Reinstall the awning.

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Namaste.

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Sweet, sweet lime.

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Well, here she is in all her painted glory!

Sweet Lime, the trailer.

The view above is looking toward the back of the trailer, with the galley on your left and the fridge on your right. We rebuilt the old dinette table and mounted a map on top, trimmed it out with aluminum edging, which we also installed in all of the corners and where the walls and overhead meet. 

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Here you can see more of that streetside corner and the Indian on the bull.

Enough color for you?

You give up yet?

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Ha!

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The ceiling turned out great. Flat and hard and clean looking. Yay!

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Here's the galley. The entry door is just left of the oven. This is where some of the magic happens.

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Galley and dinette. Beautiful, if I do say so myself.

Which I do.

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Here you can see the front gaucho that pulls out into a kind of full/twin bed, longer than the dinette/bed conversion, but narrower. Good for naps with the bull dog and looking out the open door at whatever view is present.

Are those cushions da bomb? That Woman on The Verge, she can do anything!

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That gorgeous floor again.

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Okay, so, that's how she sits right now. There's still some interior trim to install, the molding for the floor, and more stenciling or decoupage for the border trim, but the inside is pretty much a done deal. It was a lot more work than we thought going in to it, and we're pretty experienced painters (ask the Woman on the Verge how many times she's painted our kitchen!). We took it one step at a time, though, and never panicked. Just had another drink, put our heads down, and plowed ahead.

We love it super bad. 

We can't wait to take her out!

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Namaste.

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Prep, prime, & paint.

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How can such a tiny trailer have so many cabinet doors and drawers? So many bits of window gear and knobs and pulls and crap that has to be unscrewed and taken off before you can sand and prep and prime and paint? 

We figured out that painting inside a trailer is just as hard as painting a giant house, but with all the easy parts left out. No big expanses of walls or ceilings. Everything is cutting in and brush work and cramped and awkward.

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So, here's the blue! 

Shield your eyes!

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You may find this shocking, but we have a high tolerance for bold color.

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Just waiting for doors and seat cushions and the table and new flooring and a new refer door and and and.....

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The Woman on The Verge spent every waking hours for two weeks painting and stenciling like a man possessed. Or a woman. Maybe both.

She's a damn good worker.

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The galley got new aluminum trim around the edges of the countertop. 

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And a new backsplash! We love how this turned out. It echoes the pattern of the stencil we used on the walls perfectly, and it just looks so neat and well-finished.

It really ties the room together, dude.

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That stenciling looks bad-ass, right?

Hell yes it does.

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The new floor is in. Took maybe an hour? Looks like a million bucks to me, and it feels great underfoot. Peel and stick vinyl planks. No muss, no fuss, lovely floor.

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The Woman on The Verge applying the first of several attempts at a border to separate the top stenciled portion of the walls from the plain lower half. The painting is on the door of the refrigerator. Gettin' that Indian vibe yet?

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Can you say "Sweet Lime?"

I bet you can.

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Namaste.

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Tearing out the rot and starting with a clean slate.

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More before. This is the back corner, street side. It's kinda hard to tell how much the overhead was sagging, but you can see the water damaged framing, and the buckled, warped, decaying paneling on the street side.

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With the back window out, the splitting and warping of the paneling was more evident. The little square under the window was added by the previous owners when the paneling got too rotten to hold the support for the window shades. 

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The overhead seam near the vent showed us more ugliness.

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Here's a shot of the back bottom corner with the new paneling installed. Clean and crisp.

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Street side rear corner where the new paneling meets with the still sound old stuff.

Here you can see the same corner with the new overhead panel installed.

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The back corner and overhead, all brand new and clean.

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This part of the project was kind of head-scratching challenging for me. A lot of measuring and remeasuring, and dry fitting, and cursing and recutting.

I am no finish carpenter.

But she looks pretty damn good to me, and it feels great to get the rot and mold out and have a good solid substrate to work from. Maybe not beautiful yet, but sound.

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Namaste.

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