Mulligan Street

I know. I disappeared. For almost a year. But when the contractor shows up and you are desperately trying to stay one step ahead of workers, inside and out, and you're trying to work on your camper, too, and you have new kittens (of your own, plus fosters) and you're not young so there are these annoying medical issues that crop up, and there were the foundation issues that required holes six feet deep all along the side of the house, and the permit issues because two contrac

Okay, it's time to get back to the camper reno! I actually started drafting this back in November, but then the holidays, kittens and other things intervened. But the holidays are over, two kittens are gone and two are settled in, Christmas is packed up (the earliest ever!) and so, back to floors: how we chose the one we did. We did exhaustive research on what kind of flooring to use. Most folks in the RV reno community swear by Home Depot’s Allure, which has adhesive tabs,

What some of you probably know (because most of a new blog’s readers are friends and family) is that my posts so far (except for the last one about building a dividing wall at my daughter’s) are catching up; we’ve had the camper almost 3 years, and after months of planning, have been working on it as we could for about a year and a half--and we've made huge changes. But I just started actually writing about it. However I’m so excited about the floor going in, I’m going to j

So much for posting every week--sorry! But I have been a very busy lady for the last couple of weeks, working with my honey on getting the floor into the camper while the weather cooperates and finishing a project at a daughter's house. First, we got everything we could out of the RV--or, at least, out of the main room: tools, bits of wood and trim, cabinet doors, etc.. Then we finished prepping the floor, which took a couple of half-days. Finally, we started laying the new

I knew we had to make room for a dishwasher. Two years without one was not something I could ask my husband/chief bottle washer to do. The only problem was, it had to go into a cabinet that only had about 18 inches of depth from back to front at the bottom (while most cabinets have a toe kick on the front, these have it on the back to accommodate the slide when it's closed) and 21 inches total above that. The side-to-side measurement could be adjusted, but not front-to-back

Chip Gaines may love demo day, but we faced our first one with a bit of trepidation. First of all, RVs are not built like houses. Parts are sometimes assembled on the wall and fastened from the outside in, before the outer skin is put on. So you unscrew thirty screws and still have to carefully twist and pry something free. Three gazillion staples hold down the carpet--and it goes in before the built-ins do, so you have a choice of cutting it away as best you can and repla

Hi. I'm Susan. My husband Len and I are the proud parents of four often amazing kids--all adopted. We also have a houseful of rescue cats and dogs (plus three charming goldfish rescued from the feeder tank). This is the second marriage for both of us. I love rehabbing furniture and fixing things. A couple of days after somebody t-boned our car and totaled it, the best deal we found was the same year, same model, same color ... Our lives are all about second chances. A fe