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beve studio vintage camper renovation: The Rebuild Part I - No More Leaks!

Lauren Boggs Meslar

beve studio vintage camper renovation: The Rebuild Part I - No More Leaks!

After discovering extensive water damage at the rear of our vintage camper and lots of leaks at windows and lights, we removed, cleaned, re-installed, and re-sealed the front and back trim, all windows, and all lights.

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Vintage Camper: Demolition Part II and the Big Move

Lauren Boggs Meslar

Vintage Camper: Demolition Part II and the Big Move

We go down to the studs after finding significant water damage in the vintage camper and we get it up the driveway and in place - ready to rebuild!

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beve's Vintage Camper Studio: Demolition Part I

Lauren Boggs Meslar

beve's Vintage Camper Studio: Demolition Part I

Alrighty! We've made some significant progress on our vintage camper studio project. I had originally been saying "demolition," but after getting in there and working, I think it's more accurate to call it a "deconstruction." The reason is I'm trying to keep the linoleum floor and the walls as intact as possible so that I don't have to do replace them. I'm hoping to put new flooring right over top of the existing linoleum and to simply paint over the walls and ceiling.. and *hopefully* wallpaper my desk area. You can see how the studio are is looking without the dinette set...

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beve's BIG Project: A Vintage Camper Studio

Lauren Boggs Meslar

beve's BIG Project: A Vintage Camper Studio

I am very excited to announce that in a few months time, we will have a new, just-down-the-hill-from-my-house beve studio - a renovated vintage camper! For years, even before beve "hq" moved out of our home, I have thought about other possibilities for its location. One of my brother's rentals? A shipping container? Nothing seemed to fit my needs or my budget. I finally rented two small rooms about ten miles away when we were trying for our second child and needed our third bedroom. I don't know why it took so long to realize, but a camper is a wonderful...

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Lauren Boggs Meslar

If you look at our past blog posts, you will read that last January, I intended to share one blog post a month during 2018. Well, I only managed that one January post all year! I also really let our social media slide, sometimes not even opening up Instagram for over a month. These probably weren't the wisest moves for my business and I definitely felt and feel self-conscious about those choices, but I think they were necessary to not feel totally overwhelmed this past year. Something I didn't mention in my January 2018 blog post, A Millennial Mom's Mantra: Pretty...

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