Just inside the front door is our


“outside” storage locker. Te electrical cables, hoses, etc. in large plastic bags go in here. I roughed in a computer workstation


at the forward end of the living room with the TV on an adjustable arm. Te bathroom was next. A small


stainless sink (Amazon.com) in the corner with a 5-gal removable grey tank underneath and a storage area behind the portapotti on the leſt. I used 5


You can see the four utilities grouped under the kitchen window.


since the original build a year and a half ago? Te answer is yes. Aſter our first trip to the


/8” MDF for all the cabinet


doors. I weighed (no pun intended) my two options – simple painted MDF doors (quick to make, but heavy) vs. labour- intensive wood doors (light in weight but a lot more time to fabricate and finish). Here are the overhead cabinets in the living room. With the “rough” interior work


complete, it was time to make it look nice. I’ve done home renovations for many years, so I thought, let’s just cover everything with a thin coat of drywall mud. I’ll tape the corners and everything will look nice. And surprisingly, it did, until…. that story later. We had cushions made locally for the


sofa and the chair and ottoman. Not cheap but very nice in the long run. Jen made curtains to cover the clothes


closet and act as a bathroom “door”; we didn’t want hard surfaces everywhere. We made drawers for folded items,


sweaters, jeans, socks, etc., again, on full- extension drawer slides. Te shelf in the middle pulls out when we need a place to put something. To the right of the drawers is a upper


storage cupboard and open storage underneath for spring bars, trailer hitch, jack stands, etc. Te kitchen received a stick-on “tile”


backsplash (Home Depot) as did the bathroom sink surround. Pictures were hung in the living room. By now you may be asking where we


hid the bed. Well it was originally going to be in the ceiling, raised and lowered on a bed liſt; however, we got absolutely no response from the US manufacturer, so we gave up. We sleep on the sofa and on the chair and ottoman and cushion support. Beds are 20” wide by 72” and are surprisingly comfortable. By the way, the mudded and taped corners didn’t last as you might have


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Yukon and then south to California, we realized we need a better system for the grey and black tanks. Te 2 – 5-gal “grey” tanks, under both sinks, were a


pain to monitor. So I re-jigged the drain underneath the kitchen sink. I added two slide valves: the leſt one to allow grey water into the blue tank; and the right one to allow it to flow through a P-trap and out to the sewer connection. We just open the appropriate valve depending upon whether we have a sewer connection or not. To dump the portapotti, I added a 3”


I strapped 3” wide strips of plywood down the length of the ceiling.


guessed – just too much movement as the trailer follows us down the road. My solution? I ripped some ¼” plywood into 1½” strips and pinned them in the corners. Painted the same colour as the walls, problem solved. Now you might also be wondering if we’ve changed/modified/added anything


drain underneath the raised platform the portapotti sits on. We just take the cap off the drain and dump the potty into it. Grey water from the blue tank underneath the bathroom sink provides the rinse water. Also aſter that first trip, we knew we


wanted a hot water heater as boiling water in the kettle every time we needed


Ready to start framing the interior.


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