We are still here but thought you might want an update of our location and situation. For 2 ½ years, we have been on the road making minor adjustments to the interior of the RV – giving away the convertible-couch, recliners (2), replacing the mattress with a Sleep Number bed and removing carpeting for floor covering of Marmoleum. While traveling we have had to manually store the dining table and desk to accommodate the inside position of the living room slide and the movements of a moving RV down the road. While none of the preparations before and after trips really took a lot of time it was just more of a bother and the arrangement didn’t meet our needs. Last winter, we talked with an RV interior expert and got ideas of what could be done with our situation. So, over the summer tour of the Pacific coast of California, Oregon and Washington, we began to draw up our remodeling request. We sent the drawings and measurements to our guy in the Santee area. When we got here he came over and took his own measurements and talked about what we wanted overall.
Then he sent an estimate that was much higher and more complex solution than we were interested in. So, we asked him to come back and work with us to get simpler and simpler to meet our wants and our budget. So, we worked it out again and agreed to a bottom line for the desk and dining room areas. We had wanted the hardware (door and desk pulls) to match as close as possible to what we currently have. Since “brass” is not in fashion, we knew that we’d probably need to buy “brushed nickel” or “wood” for some of the back bedroom hardware. Then we’d more the original hardware to the new front cabinets. Off he went with half down, one of the cabinet doors for stain matching and an open time line.
Tuesday (04 January 2011), Rich and his handiwork showed up for the installations. The woodwork stain matched exactly the current cabinetry. The quality of the workmanship was excellent and the pieces all fit into the allotted space and met our needs. The trickiest piece was the desk; which required locking drawers and everything (drawer pulls, desk surface) needed to clear the edge of the living room slide when it was drawn in for travel and moved back out when setting up in a new location.
