Tiny living

I am really starting to like living back in the RV again. I have to admit that it has been a bit of a culture shock after three years in a nice one bedroom apartment. I have to admit that I kind of want to just hook up the RV and do some traveling. But for the winter at least I am stuck where I am so that I can figure out where I want to go and how I am going to do it. The down side will be leaving my Jeep behind, as I can’t drive two vehicles at the same time.  I also have quite a bit of stuff to go through and get rid of.  I will be setting up an e-Bay store to help make a little bit of money in the process. We will see how that goes.

Moving back into the RV had the challenge of downsizing, yet again, and I got through that all well  Just to name a few things there are so many other things that have had to be done.

She needs a bath!

and good. The other challenge is that when you stick an RV into storage for so long that when you pull it out there are a lot of little, and not so little, things that need to be fixed. My list has included everything from replacing missing cabinet door handles, bay door locksets, seals and clamps, scrubbing walls, to replacing busted vent covers, and re-caulking nearly every seam on the outside of the trailer.

On this particular weekend the vents got replaced, and hopefully the caulking of the exterior fixtures and the roof seams on the slide will stop the water from getting into the RV all together. I am crossing my fingers on that one as every time I have caulked something it has not seemed to help. I think at some point I am going to have to strip all of the caulk, rubber sealant, and spray rubber off the RV and start with a completely blank canvas. Having to do this will suck as I admit that I have an aversion to heights. Luckily my ex-husband has been nice enough to drive down from Maryland and assist me with all the roof stuff.

Part of my living room

On the interior I was happy to enter on that first day to find all the furniture, with the exception of my kitchen table, gone from the trailer all together. The blank canvas allowed me to pull in most of the pieces from my apartment to create my new space. The key to adding the furniture from the apartment is that it has had to be bolted down to the floor and to the walls. Not a major thing to do but does take a hot minute to complete. “L” brackets have been a godsend! I also invested in a few packages of Museum Putty that allows me to tack down things to the desk and the bookcase so that I am not constantly putting things away and pulling them back out every time I move the RV. 

The best experience from moving back into the RV is that I do know a few design things that I do not want in my tiny house when I build it. For starters I want much better windows, and a lot less of them! Wall space in my RV is at a premium and I have a lot of things that I would love to be able to hang up, unfortunately I cant. So in the Tiny Home I will have to make the space to hang pictures and things. I have had the thought of stripping the RV down to just the trailer and building my tiny house on that, I do plan on just buying one of the tumbleweed trailers though.

But for now, my story continues…