RV Remodel - Bedroom Area
(This is part 2 of 2 - the 1st paragraph is the same in both remodel posts. This one is about the Bedroom Remodel; while, the other blog post 2 of 2 is all about the bedroom remodel to include the bunk beds.)
So, we decided it’s time to remodel our RV again!
First, when we decided to add bunk beds to our living room for the children, we
didn’t take into consideration GROWTH SPURTS and how fast these growth spurts
were going to occur! So, needless-to-say, the children are already becoming TOO
long for their beds! :-) Second, after having carpet in this
RV and dealing with it for the last 7 months and trying to keep it
clean, we’ve decided it will be much easier to have some sort of hardwood or
laminate flooring! We’re thinking it will be easier if we just leave the slide
alone and leave the carpet on it along with the carpet in the front “cab” area
of the RV. I’ll break this down into two blogs – one for the living room area
and one for the bedroom area!
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| BEFORE - As you can see, at this point, the night stands w/closets are on each side of the bed. My husband took all of this apart carefully so they could be reused as needed. |
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| BEFORE - just another angle of the bedroom! |
My husband has the most creative mind for
his concept for the kids to have long bunk beds and their own privacy! Our
bedroom originally had a queen size bed in the middle of the bedroom with night
stands (with closets above them) on each side of the bed. We had some storage
under the bed; but, much of the room was devoted for the water tank (to hold
fresh water in case we don’t have access to any water). He figured out a way to
move the water tank along with everything in the bedroom to allow us the
opportunity to have more room! Yay!
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| Deciding what colors to go where! |
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| More painting fun! |
Every moment is a learning moment, right?!!!! :-)
So, the first thing we needed to do
was to take everything apart and out of the bedroom. This beginning part the
kids and I couldn’t really help at all. He needed to take the night stands,
closets, etc. apart very carefully so that they could be reused again once he
was ready to reinstall them. After everything was out of the room, it was time
to paint! We made this part a family affair as we all got involved with the
painting (to some degree)!!! The kids even had a math problem and they were
asking daddy about it so he painted it on the wall… since he knew we were just
going to paint over it! *smile* We decided to paint the walls with 2
colors, with one on the lower half of the bedroom while the other was on the
top half.
The kids LOVE to paint!
Frank was constantly determining his dimensions, to make sure
everything was going to fit how he planned on bringing everything back! His
plan was to make our queen size bed to be able to slide in and up the side of
the wall so that it looked like a futon during the day (so the kids have a good
size bedroom to play in – if they were really going to stay inside – lol).
Their bunks were going to be the length of the bedroom with their dressers
built-in underneath their beds. They also would have curtains too for added
privacy! When this entire project was done, the kids were so excited to have
their very own special place!!! I know that I was pretty brief on this part of
the remodel. If you have any questions, feel free to ask away and I’ll ask
Frank to explain! (Have fun looking at all the "after" pictures below!)
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| Flooring |
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| Working on dimensions for beds! |
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| If DAD can lay down in the bed lengthwise, hopefully the kids will fit it for awhile, right?!!! :-) |
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| AFTER - Doesn't it look pretty?! |
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| AFTER - Kit Kat loves the futon bed too! |
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| AFTER - Kit Kat loves her new hangout - on the top bunk! |
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Remodeling the bedroom area of an RV is quite challenging work. But with hard work and a little cooperation from the kids, you were able to finish it all. I like the two-toned look you gave the wall. Also, I noticed that you have lots of storage space, which is good since you have two kids. You can use that to store all their toys, and keep them from littering the place.
Thank you for your compliments Rosalinda! I really appreciate it! We originally did the floor in linoleum and now we are probably going to do vinyl "wood looking" strips. Also, the kids have gotten a little older now and I came up with something that I think they will really like! I bought the write on/wipe off paint and want to paint around their bed area so they can do what they want with "their" area! Also, my son tapes little ideas of his inventions on his wall day or night when he thinks of them. I thought this might be a way that he could just write them down! :-) I'm also going to Velcro some of the visa vis rewrite-able markers in their areas. But shhhhhhhh.... don't tell! I haven't let them in on this yet!
Would like to see the rest of the room also. What was the price range of this project?