Mastodawn

The bedroom is long finished and summer is fast approaching so spring is the time to DIY the campervan.

Early last summer the guy booked to do the professional job of that gave himself a nervous system crisis by only drinking distilled water in a misguided heath-kick. On the week he was booked to do it for me.

So that failed. He left me with a boot-kit, which barely served the purpose and then before I could fix it much I fractured my wrist. Great.

Nothing in the way now so it's the DIY Microcamper Easter Special!

Over the last few days I have cut the boot-kit to enable it to open one leg at a time. Single bed or double bed. Painted it, coated the exposed surface with a vinyl blue wood-effect wallpaper.

Added a door into the back/inside to allow access from inside the van.

Seems pretty nice inside my flat here, but will of course be much more cramped and much lower roof when it's inside the van.

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Adam Dalliance 1d ago

The van's metalwork is exposed in the back and it is far from actually cosy in there so the job today has been to cover the entire insides in a foam insulation.

Seems to have gone okay. I certainly have lots of spare left over, only used about half.

Even had time to start on the covering of the wood and insulation with the vinyl blue wood-effect wallpaper.

Hopefully more of that wallpapering can be done tomorrow though I fear I will run out because I seem to have ordered three mini-rolls of extra rather than three large rolls like I wanted. 🤞 Probably end up having to leave some till next weekend when I run out.

The Carpet has arrived the wrong color too. Boo. Wonder if I'll just accept the black or try and handle the returns process to get the red I wanted.

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Adam Dalliance 1d ago

My cuticles do not stand for even one days manual labour 😭 Where have they gone? 😢

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Adam Dalliance

Yep, as expected, out of wallpaper before even attempted the doors at all. Gonna be next weekend before I can do much more really.

It is.... Not great. Wallpapering curved surfaces is tricky and I have no idea what I'm doing.

Might re-try some large chunks of what is done once there's spare to re-try with.

Will need cualk on all the joins which will be as time-consuming as the self-adhesive wallpaper in the first place.

Most of the remaining things could use the walls being finished first ideally. Maybe I could do the carpet tomorrow. If I accept the black instead of the red.

Might be better to have things dark in there so you can't see so well how terrible much of the wallpaper is.

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