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Rocket is our '88 excella (29'). Rocket's interior is a very boring typical late 80's look where everything is brown. That will change over the winter as we redo a good part of the interior. The living area will get a new island theme decor. Stay tuned for pictures of the makeover!

Be careful ordering drapery clips

Posted 01-23-2010 at 03:40 PM by mcair (Rocket's Renovation)

Some progress on the new curtains. Not enough today to post pictures but we did find out how much fun it is to figure out those darn little plastic drapery clips. the first ones I looked at were the "T" style. So naturally I assumed that was what we needed and ordered 300 from airstream to start. I finished the small pair of curtains over the kitchen window and was excited to put them up when we visited the trailer. Imagine my surprise when they where the wrong kind. Turns out that our...

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Fabric swatches and before picture

Posted 01-12-2010 at 09:03 PM by mcair (Rocket's Renovation)

Fabrics for front of trailer.
The white one is for the drapes. It is a tone on tone leaf print.

The green fabric is to redo the couch.

the Tommy Bahama print is for pillows, placemats and other accent pieces.

The before picture shows how boring the current color scheme is.

Curtains will be started as soon as the elastic sliders get here from Airstream

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First project: New Curtains

Posted 01-11-2010 at 10:17 PM by mcair (Rocket's Renovation)

We are almost ready to start on the new curtains. I have the material and lining and am just waiting for some new elastic sliders. I ordered them today from Airstream so they should be here by the end of the week. I will post before and after photos plus some detail pictures of the actual sewing.

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