Before You Do Anything! Take a lot of photos and measurements. Take photos of the interior to capture how everything is attached to the side board. Measure the distance of the support poles and bolts from both the ceiling and from the corner of the roof. Measure the locations of the exterior support bolts … Continue Reading
When you open your Google Photos account, you land on the main library screen. This screen presents you with all the photos you’ve added to your account as well as photos that have been shared with you by other users. The one nice benefit to having all the photos appear in the main library is … Continue Reading
During our Jayco pop-camper restoration, we needed to repair the 4 corner caps on the body of the camper. These caps protect the corners when the camper’s roof is in a fully closed position. The caps overlap the trim, and they cover/protect the inner wall which would otherwise be exposed. Our caps were dry rotted … Continue Reading
After having cleaned 50 glass votives used at a wedding, we finally found a method that actually worked. Once we removed the votive candles, we were left with bits of wax and grit on every glass. Heating the glass did help a little, but there was still a waxy film residue and gritty bits of … Continue Reading
Here is a fairly easy, inexpensive way to make graduated braided rope curtain tie backs. Curtain tie backs aren’t as popular as they used to be, but they are a necessity for outdoor curtains. In our case we needed them to prevent our curtains from flying everywhere in even the slightest breeze. We bought inexpensive … Continue Reading
The pop-up camper that we were remodeling had the typical laminate countertops. Ours were in a sandstone finish, which would not work with the white and gray interior we were hoping for. In addition to that, the small cabinet beside the front door was missing its countertop. We had thought about painting and then sealing … Continue Reading
Here’s another project we completed on our pop-up camper repair/remodel. We had temporarily used tape to hold the torn screen sections; but it wasn’t attractive and was definitely not the look we were going for. After thoroughly cleaning the canvas, we found that this section of screen (that sat under the damaged roof when closed) … Continue Reading
If you have a pop-up camper and are repairing or replacing your curtains, you will probably need new tabs. The tabs have a special ridge that fits inside camper curtain channels. These tabs are sewn directly into the curtains and slide into channels inside the camper, allowing them to be pulled open or closed. The … Continue Reading
This was the final project for our pop-up camper remodel. We wanted an awning that didn’t look “DIY” and that had support arms attached to the camper (versus poles that are staked to the ground). We used nylon webbing to make straps so the awning could be strapped to the camper roof when not in … Continue Reading
Making a DIY fire pit is a very simple project if you use trapezoidal blocks. There was only main issue we ran into – the quantities of blocks we needed. First, the fire pit calculator at Home Depot was way off. We ordered way too many blocks; 38 blocks too many. We even compared their … Continue Reading
Not sure how it happened, but a bed sheet came out of the washer with several staggered tears. To fix these holes, the best solution seemed to be to patch them. Rather than have several, long seamed repairs I decided to try to make the patches look decorative. After deciding on a design using large … Continue Reading