[Homestead] making trailer habitable
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Sun Jun 3 23:23:34 EDT 2007
Well, if you put down plywood on the floors, you can then reuse them for
something else down the road. Faux hardwood is a simple Drummel away. Use
a straight edge and Drummel lines in the plywood to make it look like
hardwood. Stain and varnish. Or you can faux paint either stone or brick.
Use exterior/deck paint in either cream or gray (this will be your groat
lines) and then buy the skinny painters tape and lay out your lines. Take a
sponge and do multi-reds and browns to make a brick color or multi-grays,
beiges and browns to do stone.
When you're done using the trailer, pull up your plywood and build a fancy
chicken barn or ????
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "VAN DELL JORDAN" <vdjor at yahoo.com>
>I just agreed to purchase a 12x60 single wide for
> $800.00. As you can guess this is not too pleasant
> inside. We plan to live in it only until I can find
> a house to move or can build one. My question any
> creative ideas on what to do? Example I need to
> replace a lot of the standard mobile home panels. Am
> looking for creative ways to do walls, floors and
> maybe ceiling. Possible something I can recycle.
> This does not have to look like anything "typical" if
> it can be interesting and attractive. I have a few
> ideas but I'm someone here might come up with
> something that I would never think about.
> I may wind up removing interior walls and trying to
> make the inside space livable as a single large room.
> considering building a shed over so to have an open
> porch on one side and the other to be a semi enclosed
> back porch / mudroom. But all this is conjecture
> right now.
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