We successfully converted the fishing pole racks in the back of our truck into racks that will now hold our solar tiki torches. As it should be. This conversion consisted of swapping the front and back ceiling-mounted holders so the pole end could slide in and the lamp end could…
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Okay so recently, our inverter started kicking its breaker any time we ran a couple things together (at first, then whenever we ran one thing for longer than a minute or so) even when we were plugged into shore power. We had AM Solar check it out and they eventually…
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Someday we'd love to replace the surfaces in the Airstream with something a little less…um…tan. Mostly you get away from all the brown and tan when buying an Airstream in the first place, but with ours, the sofa and dinette cushions were brown, and the countertops are a fake aggregate…
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Don't you hate when you procrastinate doing a project because it feels like it's going to be some huge ordeal, and then when you finally do said project, it takes 10 minutes and you feel really stupid for having waited so long? Yeah, we don't know what that feels like…
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I fashioned some curtains this week to replace the flimsy (lame) accordian privacy dividers (that broke on maybe the third time we used them) that came with our Airstream. Originally I wanted to find a nice silvery velvet fabric, but I found two curtain panels at Target that were a nice…
Comments closedLaura and I made a decision a few years ago. We wanted to live our lives in a way that blended future and present. We didn't want to postpone all our fun until some future "retirement" phase. We wanted to enjoy our lives now without selling out our futures to…
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Here's another cool improvement we made. The cabinet above the refrigerator in our Airstream (we use it as a spice cabinet) is great, except for one thing: it doesn't stay open while you're putting stuff in and getting stuff out. I found this great little doohicky at West Marine for keeping hatches…
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It's so bright and airy (and awesome!) inside our Airstream that we end up spending most of our time inside and not much outside until it's time to grill or have a campfire. I think I've got the necessary things now, however, to create a really sweet outside environment. …
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We got a new kitchen faucet yesterday and installed it last night. It's quite an improvment over the one that was in the Airstream to begin with (leaks, hose kinks on the pullout, main faucet didn't turn side to side). The new faucet is called Purist by Kohler and we got…
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I've posted about a couple of these before, but since I'm on a roll here, I'll revisit a few of them. I'll call this a category of small, fairly inexpensive things that solve some issues you might have with storage and regular daily living in your Airstream. Problem 1: Where…
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