Fe Fi Faux Fun

These days it seems to take me twice as long to accomplish half as much. Probably because I have less than half as much mini time as I used to. Sadly, this means I just don't have the time to engage with your encouraging comments (though it fills my heart to read them 💗). I have little time to enjoy your blog posts or post as often to mine. 😥 Please forgive me, bear with me, and I promise - one day things will be back they way they were once again. That's enough with my lamenting. Let's just enjoy some progress, shall we?

As soon as I got the chance I continued with the trailer's tiny bathroom, applying wallpaper and a "Formica" countertop to the lower half of the curved front wall. I also took the opportunity to add a TP roll holder and a couple towel bars while I could still get my hands in to hold things while glue set. Like typical trailers, there's only room enough for small folks to move in here.

Bathroom Bird's Eye

A cozy place to poop.

I installed the banquet in the main cabin - here's a look from the front door and one looking into the bedroom..

When deciding on the finishes for the countertops in the bedroom, I wanted to bring in a bit of a wood element to tie in with the floor. Like so many vintage trailers from this era, what better homage could I pay than with a faux wood finish? That's when I set out to attempt a faux wood look on chipboard.

Painted faux wood on chipboard.

Here is a tutorial with the steps and products I used to achieve the faux wood look.

Vintage Faux Wood Finish

I wanted to tie the trailer's wood vibe into every room, so set about making a magazine holder, shelves, a letter holder, mirror/coat hangers, chair and banquet table all in Design Space. As always I used chipboard for everything except the dowel for the table base and the tiny 1/16' x 1/8" shelf slats.

 I applied the same faux wood technique to everything.

The magazine holder adorns the bathroom. Before cell phones, having a variety of interesting bathroom reading was essential!

Mirrors always help to make a small space feel roomier and I guess that's why so many vintage trailers had them. Mine also have handy hanging pegs because there is no such thing as too many storage options!

Bedroom

Entry Way

The storage hutch needed a little wood trim, too.

A handy mail and letter holder. Remember those?

The banquet table

These shelves are going to hold fresh herb pots. How will they get sunlight, you ask?
Stay tuned and you'll see!

If you followed my Beachside Bungalow project then you may remember Roxanne (read to the blog post's post script to learn more). Her dream has always been to live a sustainable life, growing her own food, selling produce and flowers at the local farmer's market and enjoying a very simple life. The travel trailer is a big part of her dream and I am so happy to finally be working on it for her. In light of that she has been working with me in the background so I can make sure everything is a perfect fit both literally and stylistically. I am thrilled to report that she is thrilled!

Her wardrobe needs some serious attention. Anybody know where to get Heidi Ott sized overalls and garden boots? I think I have a cute sun hat around here someplace!

One more thing before I sign off... I Haven't discussed the lighting plan with you yet, but the trailer will definitely have lighting. For the bedroom, I installed puck lights in the cupboard above the bed cubby. To tie into the wood element here I cut trim circles from wood printed scrapbook paper. Roxanne appreciates the attention to details that only she will see.

Hopefully I'll be back in a couple weeks with progress that makes the trailer seem more livable.

Take care, my friends!

xo xo,

Jodi