Thank you Nancy!

My friend Nancy Wright saved me the old 12v lights from her Rialta that she and her husband upgraded over the weekend! Thanks Nancy! We'll find them a great new home. :) I haven't really done anything over the weekend. I swept out the camper, sat in it and thought about floor plans, and that's pretty much it. It's been horribly hot, and I just don't have the energy to do much in this heat.

Speaking of floor plans- looking at Rusty's camper (link in the previous post) has really solidified in my head what the original layout of my camper must have been. (uneven dinette, with a cabinet at the end of the bench on the driver's side; stove and sink (under a board) on the counter), and cabinets overhead all over the place. I'm not sure I want to go back to this layout. I know I want the bed to sleep two, and I'm contemplating giving up a little of the center aisle to make it two wider singles- it can still function as a dinette, there just wouldn't be much leg room. If I did that, I might do velcro-ed down curtains along the sides of each bench, so that the space under the opposing bench could be foot room when it's serving as a table. Restoring the fold-down bunk in the rear could be storage space (or kid-bunk, for the planned visit from Emmy and Dea next year. :D)

Since I'm hoping to have the camper at least USABLE for the 9/24-25 campout at Joe Pool Lake, my goals for the next few weeks are to get the hitch installed, lights tested, and then get the new flooring laid down and the wall panelling installed. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the closet (beyond that I know I want a mirror on the door) or the counter. I'm contemplating either a melamine counter top or a temporary stand in (maybe sheet vinyl and an almuinum edge?) and a curtain to cover the opening. I'm contemplating using wire basket shelving underneath there (like the Container Store 'elfa' storage system). Curtains in front of the drawers under the counter- which could be replaced with cabinetry in the future.

On the sides of the benches, I'm also thinking about putting curtains on the benches rather than cabinet doors (at least temporarily), but instead of having them be 'curtainy, I'm thinking abut using velcro at both the top and the bottom and making them out of heavy duty upholstry 'barkcloth' type stuff, or the leather-textured vinyl.  (Additionally? Velcro and fabric? I'm SO THERE.)

I don't think I'm going to be able to get this done before the campout. Not gonna happen- not since I alwao want to get the outside patched and at least primed before then. :P So my goal is to get the flooring laid down, and the wall insulation and panelling up. That, in addition to the hitch (and the lights) should get me set to go. At that point, I can camp in there with a sleeping bag and an air mattress.