Outfitting and Maintaining

There are two aspects of Bella that have become important:  Outfitting and Maintaining.  Jan is in charge of Outfitting.  Paul is in charge of Maintaining.

Outfitting has been fun!!  Jan has been spending lots of time looking at Pinterest and reading blogs written by serious RV fanatics!  She's found lots of nifty ideas and is slowly incorporating some of them into Bella.

The first thing Jan did was shop for fabric to recover the full-size mattress in the back of Bella.   We want to use that space as a "lounge" during the day, and pillow-ticking just didn't do it.  She found some great classy chocolate brown upholstery fabric with blue and gold accents, and some matching pillows.  The cover turned out great, but we don't have any pictures of it in place yet.

                                                                                                              

Jan's been scouring Big Lots, Walmart, and Target for storage bins, shelves, racks, etc. in order to maximize the storage we have.  The biggest challenge is how to store the dishes and pots and pans.  The kitchen doesn't have much actual storage space in it, though it has great appliances.  The refrigerator is 5 cubic feet, which is really large and we have a three-burner, full oven range and microwave.  At some point we may replace the shallow porcelain double sink, but for the time being it's fine.

   

Jan's purse (for scale) inside the fridge.

       


We have lots of overhead storage in the "dining area" and in the bedroom, but not much in the kitchen.

Stove on the left (black thing) and bed (mattress) on the right.  This is the pantry!