Looking at keeping my current RV rather than getting a new one, I have problems with:
1) Ceiling. Dopes put carpeting in up there. It’s really gross.
2) Cabinets. American style and dark coloring instead of Europe’s style cabinets, which I prefer. Need new cabinet faces and lighter simulated wood
3) Counter. Bad formica job where they left the brown edge. Looks dated and meh.
4) Decorative refrigerator panel. Gross dark brown to match the cabinets.
5) Floor. Old linoleum needs to be updated with something new.
6) Dinette. Would like to replace it with two small recliners and stick a small dishwasher between them to act as a table
7) Need to update the solar. Need more of it, different charge controller.
😎 Carpeting around the floors. Old, stained, needs to be torn up and probably a different type of flooring put down.
9) New sink and stove/oven
10)) New truck or significant work needed on old truck.
11) new mattress
Is any of this worth it? Has anyone done a refit like this before? How many hours am I looking at?
There are vinyl trim pieces everywhere burying the roof carpet, walls, etc. looks difficult to replace properly.
I’m thinking it’s a $5000 project before getting the truck fixed or replacement. A lot cheaper than my other option which is buying a new truck and RV. I’m looking at $60-$70k for that and a bunch of work also. Would be doing a custom overland style in that case. This case is a truck camper redo.
How bad of an idea is this?
1) Ceiling. Dopes put carpeting in up there. It’s really gross.
2) Cabinets. American style and dark coloring instead of Europe’s style cabinets, which I prefer. Need new cabinet faces and lighter simulated wood
3) Counter. Bad formica job where they left the brown edge. Looks dated and meh.
4) Decorative refrigerator panel. Gross dark brown to match the cabinets.
5) Floor. Old linoleum needs to be updated with something new.
6) Dinette. Would like to replace it with two small recliners and stick a small dishwasher between them to act as a table
7) Need to update the solar. Need more of it, different charge controller.
😎 Carpeting around the floors. Old, stained, needs to be torn up and probably a different type of flooring put down.
9) New sink and stove/oven
10)) New truck or significant work needed on old truck.
11) new mattress
Is any of this worth it? Has anyone done a refit like this before? How many hours am I looking at?
There are vinyl trim pieces everywhere burying the roof carpet, walls, etc. looks difficult to replace properly.
I’m thinking it’s a $5000 project before getting the truck fixed or replacement. A lot cheaper than my other option which is buying a new truck and RV. I’m looking at $60-$70k for that and a bunch of work also. Would be doing a custom overland style in that case. This case is a truck camper redo.
How bad of an idea is this?
AdvancedQs wrote:
Wow! That’s some excellent advice. Thank you, everyone. Especially BobsYourUncle.
The RV is a truck camper. Arctic Fox. It’s very solid. No leaks. I already own it. I was looking at changing RVs because I want something nicer inside and maybe a little more storage. I really don’t enjoy building things because I’ve done too much of that. However, any new options involve spending a lot of money I’d prefer to save and invest.
The one thing I am really uncertain about is how many hours this might take. The entire thing is only 18ft long and the non-bed part you can stand in is 9ft long. Tiny. But complicated.
A few more pics to describe the vinyl trim everywhere.
^this is the corner of a ceiling. Note the ceiling carpet, textured wallpaper and vinyl trim piece. This vinyl trim is everywhere.
^this is the floor. Stickers over 1/8” door skin like the cabinetry in this pic, lots of gross carpet and that brown vinyl piping.
^this is another corner of a ceiling near cabinetry. There is a brown vinyl piping any place there is cabinetry. Cabinetry is pressboard with a sticker on it to look like old style wood.
^this is the floor plan
That trim you call piping is standard and normal for RVs, it is a quick and inexpensive way for RV manufacturers to hide the butt ends of adjoining wall or cabinets.
You ARE going to get that even in "high end" brand new RVs and can't be avoided.
You can take a very sharp heavyduty sturdy knife (box cutter) and cut it off, then you will have to come back and cover over with some other form of trim, for corners you can buy wood corner molding and but joints in the middle of the wall board you will need flat wood trim. Of course, you would have to finish the new trim to your "tastes"..
AdvancedQs wrote:
Im not looking at this as any way to increase value. I just can’t look at this gross old style of interior anymore. I’m making a transition to using my RV a lot more and want something nice.
Any ideas on hours involved in this project? Including ceiling?
It just seems a shame to discard an otherwise perfectly functional truck camper when the interior styling is the issue.
I’m looking to get this kind of interior as far as styling goes:
Is it possible and any estimate on hours involved?
Or is it just better to spend $30k to get it?
"White washed" wood look?
UGG..
Not enough contrast for my taste with white washed cabinets and floors plus the white/grey backsplash and counter.
To redo the cabinets you would have to remove the existing finish to get to the bare wood on the doors/drawers and cabinet faces. If you are lucky, you have solid real wood and not laminated veneer or worse yet vinyl material. Once the finish has been removed then you can proceed with a white wash treatment.
New counter tops shouldn't be much of an issue, depending if you are planning to leave existing counter in place and cover with new laminate over top or planning to replace with Corian solid surface counters..
Flooring can simply be done with stick on imitation wood look vinyl planks in your color choice. Of course since all of the flooring was put down before the walls and cabinets were placed, you will have to cut around those to remove any carpet that is present.
Ceiling is going to present some challenged to replace, very good chance that every inch of it is securely glued to a backer board and that backer board most likely is glued and stapled in place..
I suspect you are going to kill quite a few hundred hours of time into it and a few thousand in money and good chance kill chances of selling it easily down the road (monochrome somber grey tones makes it feel "clinical" or hospital like).
Im not looking at this as any way to increase value. I just can’t look at this gross old style of interior anymore. I’m making a transition to using my RV a lot more and want something nice.
Any ideas on hours involved in this project? Including ceiling?
It just seems a shame to discard an otherwise perfectly functional truck camper when the interior styling is the issue.
I’m looking to get this kind of interior as far as styling goes:
Is it possible and any estimate on hours involved?
Or is it just better to spend $30k to get it?
Any ideas on hours involved in this project? Including ceiling?
It just seems a shame to discard an otherwise perfectly functional truck camper when the interior styling is the issue.
I’m looking to get this kind of interior as far as styling goes:
Is it possible and any estimate on hours involved?
Or is it just better to spend $30k to get it?
Wow! That’s some excellent advice. Thank you, everyone. Especially BobsYourUncle.
The RV is a truck camper. Arctic Fox. It’s very solid. No leaks. I already own it. I was looking at changing RVs because I want something nicer inside and maybe a little more storage. I really don’t enjoy building things because I’ve done too much of that. However, any new options involve spending a lot of money I’d prefer to save and invest.
The one thing I am really uncertain about is how many hours this might take. The entire thing is only 18ft long and the non-bed part you can stand in is 9ft long. Tiny. But complicated.
A few more pics to describe the vinyl trim everywhere.
^this is the corner of a ceiling. Note the ceiling carpet, textured wallpaper and vinyl trim piece. This vinyl trim is everywhere.
^this is the floor. Stickers over 1/8” door skin like the cabinetry in this pic, lots of gross carpet and that brown vinyl piping.
^this is another corner of a ceiling near cabinetry. There is a brown vinyl piping any place there is cabinetry. Cabinetry is pressboard with a sticker on it to look like old style wood.
^this is the floor plan
The RV is a truck camper. Arctic Fox. It’s very solid. No leaks. I already own it. I was looking at changing RVs because I want something nicer inside and maybe a little more storage. I really don’t enjoy building things because I’ve done too much of that. However, any new options involve spending a lot of money I’d prefer to save and invest.
The one thing I am really uncertain about is how many hours this might take. The entire thing is only 18ft long and the non-bed part you can stand in is 9ft long. Tiny. But complicated.
A few more pics to describe the vinyl trim everywhere.
^this is the corner of a ceiling. Note the ceiling carpet, textured wallpaper and vinyl trim piece. This vinyl trim is everywhere.
^this is the floor. Stickers over 1/8” door skin like the cabinetry in this pic, lots of gross carpet and that brown vinyl piping.
^this is another corner of a ceiling near cabinetry. There is a brown vinyl piping any place there is cabinetry. Cabinetry is pressboard with a sticker on it to look like old style wood.
^this is the floor plan
It sounds like a lot of work,there is one thing that I may be able to help with.As for the ceiling it is best to clean it,I had the same problem on my old RV and removing and replacing was not a great idea,what a mess and then I had to redo it,managed to get it done after a few months and many failures.
As for cleaning on my newest RV with the same type of carpeting.
I have had great luck with Folex,on my ceilings just spray it on and BLOT don't rub,you will be amazed at how it lifts out the stains.
It may take more than one application but it took out all of my stains.
You can get it at most big box home improvement stores or Amazon check out the reviews and the pictures,I had the same results!
As for cleaning on my newest RV with the same type of carpeting.
I have had great luck with Folex,on my ceilings just spray it on and BLOT don't rub,you will be amazed at how it lifts out the stains.
It may take more than one application but it took out all of my stains.
You can get it at most big box home improvement stores or Amazon check out the reviews and the pictures,I had the same results!
