Retro Pictures

Have found a great programme to download to your computer. It makes your pics look like old Polaroids, it's called Poladroid

Check out these Airstream images I poladroided

Let it snow!

We are having a very white xmas season here. Pretty unusual for this neck of the woods. Pats sister in law very kindly went out and took some festive pics of the Overlander in the snow.

Varnishing in the cold

Pat spent 4 days in mid november at the Airstream. He seemed to spend this varnishing the newly sanded overhead cupboards and dividers as well as the veneered drawer fronts, well some of them anyway.

He also sprayed the gold light fittings which were seriously pitted and I had tried sanding them back but they looked really ropey. They are now silver and look pretty nice.

Monday night!

Well this is what monday night looked like at out flat.

We bought 14 lengths of oak veneer (the iron on kind) from this company. Last night in our hallway we started applying it to drawer fronts and the kitchen cupboard doors. Only another 12 lengths to apply!

The replacement lights are here and now attached, it is amazing how smart they make the trailer look.

Useful brothers!

Pat has 3 brothers, one is a carpenter, one a plumber and one an electrical engineer. They will all come in very useful. Dave who is a carpenter and who lives in Canada is over for a couple of weeks and has not escaped helping out. He decided the bed frames and a kitchen cupboard were looking a little old so he and Pat rebuilt them.
One bed has remained the same and one has been reduced and will eventually be a pull out bed. This means there is more floor space for the kids to play about on on rainy days. They also removed the water tank and we plan on using tanks outside the trailer.

You can see the dividing wall has been removed but once we have re vennered it it will be put back up.

Another weekend of work!

Another 3 days and it is all coming along. Roof a lot more shiny now and Pat and his brother Rob removed the ugly air con unit.

The sunshine helps the trailer look a lot more finished than it actually is but I have to say it is looking a lot better then when we bought it!

The interior looks a mess but the flooring has been pulled up in readyness for some wiring and then a new floor.

After Polishing

Pat spent a 3 1/2 days with a polisher and now it looks a bit more presentable!

Here you can see half the airstream has been part polished.

Before!

This is the Airstream when we viewed it and were deciding whether to buy it.