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Bunnyhop my wife is itching to do the same thing with the curtains. The cushions might be a bit too complex for her though. Fortunately they aren't too bad.
The bathroom was eye wateringly bad with mock Japanese pink floral wallpaper, but I covered it all up with white and blue sticky vinyl and it made a huge difference. Van really looks £1,501's worth now.
molgrips - that's such a good idea regarding the bathroom decor. Ours is a horrible peach and pink floral design. We'll get some sticky vinyl. Where's the best place?
Tell your missus to take down each curtain and use that as a template. All she needs to do is bag line them with right sides together (lining against fabric) and turn it through, press, voila. All good.
Sticky vinyl is in B&Q, made by DC-Fix. In ours it's hard to find though, behind the wallpaper on an end-cap. I did one wall in bright blue with a sort of water-droplet finish. Bit cheesy but a huge improvement.
She had trouble finding lining fabric for cheap so I thought she could un-pick the existing lining and use that directly.
Thanks molgrips.
Somewhere such as Dunelm shouldn't be too expensive for lining and fabric. Sometimes local market stalls sell it.
Our curtains were a delightful faded peach velour (not) and would have taken me hours, if not days to unpick. I did re-use the heading poppets though. They just ripped off with some quick sharp tugs (unpick the beginning and end though, where the machine has double stitched, otherwise it will rip).
I then donated them to the charity shop. It's amazing what people will re-use.
Head into the city and you'll find a fabric suppliers, I know Glasgow has two big ones so I'd imagine most cities will have them. You'll get all the linings and stuff you need, probably upholstery as well.
Dead pleased with it, changed the colour.
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It is now a 'Basecamp Trailer' 😀
That looks pretty good, but does make the D4 look almost aerodynamic!
We've had ours 4 years from new, probably the best thing we've ever bought. Always tent campers but with the caravan we go with the kids all year round. It is started to look well used in places though, carpets need replacing, some veneer needs sorting and a few minor issues after a major repair last year. Despite all that its great. Starting to think about the next one though as the kids are getting a little big for easy access to their bunks.
surely the easiest thing to do with curtains is stitch an extra layer onto the existing ? better for thermal insulation and blackout...
That looks pretty good, but does make the D4 look almost aerodynamic!
MPG seems to drop by about 2-3 MPG with it on which I can live with. Disco pulls it with ease, it's pretty light at 800kg
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Finished the interior now, happy. Not a brown button cushion or a net curtain in sight!
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Bunks for the kids, bottom bunk folds up and you can store bikes 😀
*kinda want
Shame there's not a 3 bunk version.
Like. What van is that?
It's a Knaus Deseo
It's been wrapped in Matte Silver
Changed the flooring and painted the interior white
Crikey, that looks great, will be trading in my camper next month, I could be persuaded into something like that.
Cheers, I really didn't want a Caravan but from a practicality point of view it made sense.
A tent is my choice but with young kids it's hard work pitching and breaking camp, also it's hot sometimes in a tent. We also were at the point of needing a trailer to carry it all.
A camper van would be cool but too small and we tend to use the tent as a basecamp on holidays and go off so if it was our only transport a bit of a pain, a motorhome would be too big with the same issues.
When we are on holiday we live outside so this seems to make sense, it's basic, a place to sleep but it's quick, can be left behind, has a toilet, a fridge and can carry 4 bikes.
So this is what we've got.
How much did it cost if you don't mind me asking?
Not a lot, all up maybe £5k (including buying, wrapping, materials, etc.)