{"id":185,"date":"2015-07-04T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T03:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/?p=185"},"modified":"2015-07-23T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:20:49","slug":"holiday-weekend-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Weekend Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s so nice when we both have time off to work on the trailer and when the weather basically cooperates! \u00a0On July 3rd, we measured, cut and attached\u00a0more of the marine hull liner\u00a0fabric on the walls. \u00a0Our work area for spraying adhesive on the fabric is a tarp in the front yard. \u00a0We had to stop at one point when it started sprinkling….<\/p>\n

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I neglected to take pictures of these areas after they were\u00a0finished, but it all looks pretty good.\u00a0At this point we just have some small pieces of fabric\u00a0to put in the upper cabinets, as well as putting on the seam cover strips. Yay! \u00a0I’ll be glad when this part is over!<\/p>\n

On July 4th, Wayne started the process of reinforcing and extending the bed platform. The center divider will help\u00a0to strengthen the platform, plus it will allow items that are put in from the side storage area to stay where we can reach them. \u00a0He also added some vertical supports at various places along the platform. Two pieces of curved plywood form the sleeping surface, and we don’t plan to permanently attach them\u00a0so that we can access everything under the bed. \u00a0That said, we’ll probably use the front areas more than those in the far back on the driver’s side.<\/p>\n

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Last week we bought a print fabric for the curtains. \u00a0I’m not quite sure if we have enough\u00a0to do all the windows, but my goal is to make curtains for the large front and back windows, first, and use\u00a0a coordinating fabric for the side windows, if necessary. \u00a0The dark blue fabric will serve as a liner, offering privacy, as well as helping to block\u00a0incoming morning light. \u00a0I think the fabric is much prettier in real life than it is\u00a0in this picture, by the way!<\/p>\n

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Making the curtains should be a very interesting project for me. \u00a0While only simple seams are required, I don’t sew. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0I don’t own an iron or an ironing board (yet). \u00a0I bought an older used Singer sewing machine last spring–which is in my classroom at school–and one of my co-workers gave me about a 30-minute lesson a couple of months ago. \u00a0I honestly don’t know if I can even remember how to thread the bobbin! \u00a0Various YouTube videos have helped me understand the mechanics of measuring, hemming and cutting the fabric to make the kind of curtains I want, but lack of familiarity with the machine could, indeed, be a challenge.<\/p>\n

When we get ready for cushions for the front dinette, we’ll probably use a dark blue fabric, but with the colors in the curtains, we could even do a bright green. \u00a0Or if I’ve somehow morphed into an exceptional seamstress, maybe I’ll whip\u00a0up some cushions that are blue with bright green piping! \u00a0Guess we’ll figure it out\u00a0when we get there…<\/p>\n

And so that brings us to flooring…. \u00a0We’ve looked at Allure vinyl “planks” and at other vinyl peel ‘n stick tile patterns, but today I wondered if I could use some vinyl tiles that I have left over from some\u00a0household renovations. \u00a0We spread out about a dozen to see if it would be too “orange” against the chestnut cabinets.<\/p>\n

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It’s not awful–and it would save some money to use something we’ve already got–but I really don’t like the color or<\/em> the pattern that well for the trailer. \u00a0Guess we’ll keep on looking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s so nice when we both have time off to work on the trailer and when the weather basically cooperates! \u00a0On July 3rd, we measured, cut and attached\u00a0more of the marine hull liner\u00a0fabric on the walls. \u00a0Our work area for spraying adhesive on the fabric is a tarp in the front yard. \u00a0We had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restoration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ap3J-2Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/Soul-Journer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}