Have you found hidden space in your home where you can create a closet? Recently For the last nine months, we’ve been working on a new bedroom suite in which we took the two end bedrooms in our double wide and tore down the wall between them to make it one …
Avid airplane enthusiasts, Jim and Julie decided this year they would attend Airventure at Oshkosh in Wisconsin, but they couldn’t find a hotel for 200 miles! Upon advice that camping would be their best bet, they decided to put their talents to work and build a teardrop camper to tow behind their vehicle. Perfect for just a small campsite. Because…you know…when you can’t find a hotel room, you build a camper! Doesn’t everybody? :-)
A Faux Brick Wall In One Afternoon? Sure! This month, we put in a faux brick wall as part of our bedroom suite remodeling project. Here’s a quick how-to video for doing a light finish on it. We used Faux Brick Wall Paneling 4×8 foot sheets. Cut and mounted them …
A visitor shares his method for covering the seams under mobile home wall strips, PLUS the Video of the Month!
Recently, a visitor wrote: Just beginning to remodel our 1983 Double wide. Haven’t read all your posts yet. We need to replace narrow windows with large ones or sliders to outside and new wraparound deck. Have you had luck with either of these projects yourself? great site, I look …
One thing we all know about most mobile and manufactured homes is that space is at a minimum. When we choose to live economically, we also sacrifice in some ways, and this includes living without much storage for our junk treasures. Many of our older homes have the infamous “built …
How many times can one room be redone? When we first bought our home new, there was carpet in the BATHROOM. Ugh…why do they do this? So, almost immediately, after realizing that two young boys and carpet around a toilet do not belong in the same house together, we tore …
How many of you have used a contractor to do the work in your home? We normally don’t. Clearly, mobile or manufactured home owners have already made the choice to buy or live in an affordable home. This leads me to think that most of us are doing our remodeling …
Big D is on vacation this week. He works hard and I am glad he has a week at home on his own to relax without me there to nag him as I am want to do. However, this guy cannot sit still when there is “stuff” to do. Which …
