Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Personalizing our RV

With its limited square footage and countertop space and wall areas the modern RV offers limited options for personalizing but enough for your house on wheels to really feel like a home for the full-time RV'ers. We started out with gifts that we received when we began full-timing; the pillow that is the new main blog photo and a trailer cash bank. We then added a crucifix to remind us that everything we have is a gift and then a calendar to remind us the day of the week. After a few months we realized that we just were not using the calendar so we removed it. Luckily we are using the Command wall hangers and we just peeled it off the woodwork with no damage.

There really is only a couple of places to hang anything of size so being cat lovers we added a wall hanging of cats on the side of the pantry. We had to hang to hook high enough for the slide to pass and we take the hanging down each time we move. We can change the hanging piece throughout the year to match the seasons if we can find suitable hangings.

Next came a piece Bob's sister made for us a long time ago, a counted cross stitch of Four Seasons of Cats.











Because it is 4 seasons we will be able to showcase the work year round. We also take this down each time we move. Both of these tasks are on our departure checklist which we make sure we use each time we depart after the issues we had when we did not use the checklist.

We also have replaced the cheap RV mattress and love seat recliner that came with the unit, both of which have increased our comfort. Feeling more at home and very comfortable we continue our adventure.

Till next time,

Bob and Jo

4 comments:

  1. Love the pillow. I may just have to find me one of those. We just hung up a picture of my Mom and Dad that I love. Our son gave us a compass because he figured we'd probably be lost quite often. And Jim has hung a couple of fish plaques. So slowly we have made our rv more "homey".

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  2. That is a really cute pillow. Nothing like making your RV feel like a real home.

    Travel Safe

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  3. I read this with interest because our kids have commented that we have not personalized our motorhome at all. Perhaps it is was all that purging of stuff that put us in that frame of mind.

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