February 21, 2012
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Today’s post features a quick little video of how a person renovated a mobile home for their daughter. It’s really creative and it does my heart good to see someone put so much craftsmanship into creating a new space out of an older mobile home. These places really can be made into lovely little homes and I appreciate when someone sees that sort of value in them. Enjoy!
February 20, 2012
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Oh the glamour! The elegance! The style! What most people wouldn’t give to live in a mobile home. I know, I know, the glitz of it is blinding. The envy of all your neighbors is hard to bear from time to time, but we must endure. We must endure. Even though I was raised in a family that was financially comfortable, I have actually lived in mobile homes by choice more than once (maybe this accounts for the financial comfort?). Four times in fact! Yes, we have ultimately graduated from a 12×68 single wide with an add-a-room glued on to a 28×52 double wide. But a mobile home is a mobile home, even if we have sworn to never call our double wide a…a…trailer! The ultimate definition of a “humble abode”, mobile homes provide a comfortable, affordable way of life. If you find a used one, you can pat yourself on the back for recycling a useful resource. AND you can comfortably remodel them to fit your needs without feeling like it will cost you an arm and a leg. Here’s a list of just a few of the memories that have come to mind this week about mobile home … Continue reading
January 31, 2012
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We have been remodeling our mobile home kitchen and finally finished in December after a month of weekends working on it. In the coming posts, we’ll detail our project for you from start to finish. We’re happy it’s done, happy it’s no longer something we’re just talking about, and happy that we did it ourselves. In this post, we’ll talk a bit about what was wrong with our old kitchen, and some of the things we did to make it tolerable until we committed to completing this project. So! Our old kitchen- where do I begin? It had your standard double wide flowery vinyl-covered gypsum wall board. It was an exhibit of epic proportions of cheesy cheap cupboards- and tons of them. Double wides are infamous for built in furniture! The only home that a built-in entertainment-center-bookcase-gun rack comes standard in the living room! Our kitchen was no exception. Nearly three walls of cabinets, all of which were sagging dreadfully from 15 years of holding our copious collections of junk. At about the 10 year mark, we decided that we were going to plan our kitchen remodel, but that it was too expensive a prospect to go at it with … Continue reading
November 12, 2011
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Welcome back to MyMobilehomeMakeover.com! After my last post about mobile home moisture, I realized that there’s still more I can share about our difficulties with and triumphs over moisture in our home. Today’s topic: Bathroom Exhaust. This week, we have (haha, well my husband has) installed a new exhaust fan in our bathroom. A lot of moisture gets trapped in there because we like to take pretty hot showers. We’ve also covered the walls and ceiling with bead board for a cottage look (See Bathroom Redux post) and the surfaces in that room are pretty non-porous. Moisture just beads up on the skylight and sometimes even rains down on me in the shower when the sun is shining! Anyway, the ceiling fan we installed in the bathroom remodel was very lovely and all, but hardly functional. And this was pretty disappointing because it was a real beotch pain to put in. Of course, being a mobile home, the original fan was some backward cheapo fan with an oddball installation method that didn’t match any other logical method known to mankind. But we went at the challenge with gusto and retrofitted a lovely, poorly designed fan just because it matched the decor. … Continue reading