Posts Detailing Our RV Renovations
In this video, our Keystone Cougar kitchen gets a significant upgrade. I remove the 9-year-old dual plastic faucets and replace them with beautiful looking single stainless steel unit. The Flow Max RV faucet I chose is made from 304-grade stainless steel and comes with a pull-down faucet head and two flow patterns. Disclaimer: Love Your … Read more
In this video, I upgrade the RV bathroom cabinet door hardware and install an extra shelf into the medicine cabinet area. I swap out the free swinging OEM hinges for a stiffer auto close type and change the existing friction roller latches to magnetic. This mod will help the doors better stay closed during travel … Read more
Improvements to our Home on Wheels Last spring I detailed 20 RV upgrades I had done to our 2011 Keystone Cougar fifth wheel trailer to make our RVing life a little more enjoyable. Well, I have been a busy boy since then and I’m back again with another 20. Many of these upgrades are designed … Read more
What is Infinity LWV Flooring? LWV stands for “Luxury Woven Vinyl”. The vinyl material is woven together by the manufacturer Infinity LWV in such a way that the product acts like a hybrid between regular carpeting and traditional vinyl flooring. It is available in scads of different patterns and colors and several thicknesses. The flooring … Read more
Very Happy with the New Look So summer is drawing to a close and so is our RV renovation. We are super pleased with how everything turned out and happy to have a much easier to maintain RV interior. The main goal of the renovation was to get rid of as much fabric materials as … Read more
Let’s Make the Daybed Look Pretty In a previous blog post, I detailed the construction of my custom RV daybed platform. It consists of mostly plywood held together with screws and pine lumber. These materials keep the box pretty light weight but leave me an unfinished plywood exterior to contend with. Painting it wasn’t going … Read more
Introduction As many RVs do our Keystone Cougar trailer came with a fair amount of carpeting. It looked real nice when it was brand new, but that didn’t last too long. It is a pretty low-quality product and once it had some traffic and use it quickly flattened down. The RV carpeting is a magnet … Read more
Introduction Recently I removed the small end table at the rear of our Keystone Cougar trailer to replace it with a custom built computer desk. The new desk is awesome and I love it but it’s created a problem with storing the RVs long power cord. In the previous arrangement, it would be fed through … Read more
Planning the New RV Computer Desk At the rear of our Keystone Cougar fifth wheel, there are two swivel recliners with a small table between them. This little table is where I use the computer, not an ideal situation. So, as part of the summer renovations I wanted to build myself a properly sized desk. … Read more
Two Simple Upgrades In part three of my summer RV renovations, I tackle a couple very simple upgrades. First up is the installation of a light fixture in the under the bed storage area. This has been a long asked for addition by my lovely wife. Since a happy wife equals a happy life, I … Read more
Deciding on Daybed Size I wanted the daybed to be as long as possible but still be able to use the dining table and place our beagles kennel between them. This gave me a max length of 68”. For width we are limited by the slide out width. I want to keep the daybed completely … Read more
Our Rig Info Four years ago we purchased a brand spanking new Keystone Cougar 276RLS fifth wheel trailer. We absolutely loved the gorgeous interior and furnishings. But over the course of time some things have become tattered and worn. We are pretty disappointed with the sofa and swivel rockers. The quality of foam used inside … Read more
Why Rip Out My Fifth Wheels RV Carpet? I was doing the spring cleaning of our RV after another great snowbird season down south and got to work tackling the carpets. For carpet cleaning, I use a Bissell portable steam cleaner, great little unit and small enough to travel with us. It does a great … Read more
One thing that was lacking in our 2011 Keystone Cougar Fifth Wheel was a place to put our shoes. Generally they get placed by the entrance door in a heap. The other day I was exploring the space under the kitchen counters and noticed a large void filled with nothing right next to the door. … Read more