We have been contemplating our colors or a very long time now, and we would like to go with a dark blue in our front living/bedroom area. I have heard that it would feel too confined, but many designers claim a dark color can make walls disapear. There are a LOT of windows in there, and my curtains would be white, I thought that would lighten it up. So what did you do? Got pictures?
-Steph&B
Is the wood in your Airstream dark or light, and what about the floor? Any pictures to share?
In our Safari we went with a deep turquoise for the upholstery and very bright curtains, and that paired with a bright floor (yellow and white) and medium oak wood makes for a bright interior. Our Caravel has dark green tiki barkcloth upholstery and off-white curtains, also paired with a light floor and medium wood, and it's fine (see photos in my signature).
One benefit of dark upholstery is it hides dirt when camping!
Maybe take a sheet in the same shade as the upholstery you're considering and drape it over the seats to get an idea of how everything will look when pulled together? Bottom line, it's your trailer, decorate it how you like!
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Mel
1960 Caravel "Boris"
1967 Safari "Sparky" My Photos
WOW you have done a fantastic job! Congrats! Are all those toys yours!? I'm so jealous! Your pictures really help. I love how bright and cheery it is! Which makes me wonder even MORE about the dark blue walls!!
We are just getting the new sub-floor in, so this really is a clean slate. The possibilities are endless, and that's what is making it a hard choice. I know it's a small space, we can always re-do it, but painting over that dark blue paint might take a few coats, and there are already a few coats on there -the original beige, a white paint that was peeling and then another white paint on top of that. Brenden is really wanting to take the wall panels off, turn them around and rivet them back in, but I thought that would put them through a lot of stress and rivet holes, not to mention we want to live full time in there, SOON! We have thought about the floor and have about a dozen ideas on that too, (another tough decision, we want to do it right.) Since we have nice marine grade subfloor we thought just paint that and do a covering later if we want. Armorpoxy seems interesting, and comes in variety of colors and flakes to mix. My favorite idea right now is a light gray paint with silver glitter flakes- maybe it would look like shiny and match the stainless steel kitchen counters we have? I don't have any good pictures really because nothing besides the sub-floor is in, the stainless steel counter/table is currently set up in the house- the kitchen floor needs some rot treatment before we install anything.
I guess sometimes you just have to go for it and if you don't like it, do it again!
Thanks for your kind words! No, not all the toys are ours, as many of the pics were taken at rallies. I can barely keep up with the toys we do have!
Somehow I missed in your original post that the walls were going to be dark blue - I was picturing upholstery (sorry for the confusion!) If I were painting, I would probably want to get as much of that current paint off as I could, even getting down to the original vinyl and sanding and prepping that with a high quality primer.
I'm intrigued by your floor ideas!
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Mel
1960 Caravel "Boris"
1967 Safari "Sparky" My Photos
Reading back on it, I never really stated "walls" which would have saved confusion, sorry! We are getting an IKEA folding couch/bed and- (who would have guessed) we're unsure of the color! Ha! We were thinking of the brown cover for sofa and when it's laid out a very bright floral (but not too fancy) sheet set/ quilt. Another curtain idea was using an IKEA sheet set that comes in white and orange modern floral print. Orange and blue go together right? Still undecided between that and plain burlap to keep it simple. I have already invested in red kitchen wear, so your yellow floor is looking really good. Is that stick on? It looks fabulous!
check out you tube and search for airstream. i saw on there a while back where someone had painted their interior, i think it was a dark green but it will give you an idea. Good luck on your project. Cant wait to see what you come up with.
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John and Tammy Adams
AIR # 15902
We have been contemplating our colors or a very long time now, and we would like to go with a dark blue in our front living/bedroom area. I have heard that it would feel too confined, but many designers claim a dark color can make walls disapear. There are a LOT of windows in there, and my curtains would be white, I thought that would lighten it up. So what did you do? Got pictures?
-Steph&B
Solar gray Solardomes and Astrodomes, let in far more
soft" light, that adds to the decor.
White covers are OK, but they let in some light, but it's harsh.
Then there is the fiberglass vent covers, that let in a small amount of light, that's "brown."
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