so in this video we wanted to take you on a tour of my parents fifth wheel
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they have a 2019 arctic fox fifth wheel and they've just recently completed some
pretty cool renovation stuff so let's go inside and check it out
so this is my parents fifth wheel and they are full-time rvers we're so thankful that they're
actually going to be in florida for most of the winter so that we can spend some more time with
them so they've graciously agreed to let us come out and give you guys a tour because what they
have done in here is pretty amazing and we know that some of you guys out there are thinking
about rv renovation as well so we wanted to give you some tips that we've learned as well as just
show you what they've done so one of the first things that they've done in here which is what
a lot of our viewers do with their renovations is they painted all of the walls now when i asked
my dad about this renovation they didn't use any sort of spraying for any of the paint everything
that they painted in here they actually rolled on or brushed on in so nothing super fancy here
pretty hard to renovate when you're full time living in your rig and you're trying to paint
so they painted everything in here by hand so the walls have all been recovered and then on this
slide out where you typically have a lot of your ugly moldings and everything they got a piece of
plain pine board that was pre-primed and then where it screws on my dad actually got these
really cool upholstery pins so these are pins that you would use if you were like reupholstering a
piece of furniture but they look great on here and it looks like that they belong there so they did
the same thing on the windows where they actually took down all of the ugly valances that we all
wonder why rv manufacturers use and they just did this pine board with these upholstery pins
and then they kept the same shades as were there before so the seam kind of pulled down day night
shades but just changed out all those ugly window boxes for this type of mod instead which i think
that it turned out absolutely fantastic and then they completely redid the floors so these are all
of your vinyl snap together floors so these have all completely been redone i absolutely love just
how much brighter that this makes everything look in here as far as the grays and the whites
makes it look super modern but also just brightens everything up from an aesthetic standpoint as well
so i just love that the next thing that they did of course was what a lot of people do and they got
rid of the ugly brown cabinets these were such a horrible brown color before but they re did all
of these as far as they painted over them and then just pulled them off reinstalled them after they
were painted and then here's the deal if you're going to do an rv renovation just worry about
what you see on the outside so you can see this is what they used to look like
and they didn't worry about painting the inside because that's not something that you really
see when you're just sitting in your rv enjoying your rv but on the outside everything
is painted nice and white and it just again brightens it up in here so much more than that
dark brown color so this is also new this is a kitchenaid convection oven so for some of you that
have asked about rv cooking after our last video and asked about the microwave convection combo
you can still get the microwave convection combos if your rv did not come with that from
the factory so this one is from kitchenaid and we'll put a link in the description below for
this particular model as well this is all peel and stick backsplash so behind this kind of stove area
they've put up this peel and stick backsplash here so originally when my parents moved in here for
full-time rv living this particular area actually had like a couch and then over here had a dinette
that was like just a table with four chairs so since it's just the two of them and they really
don't need a ton of extra space they installed this table top that folds down out of the way
and then they have this kind of futon style couch so that way when they do have the grandkids over
they've got people they've got a little bit of extra sleeping space if they need it for guests
but this particular eating space and then i love this space because this will be a great workspace
so if you were working from the road or something like that this would be a great space for that
with all of the windows being able to see out wherever you are and then this folds down and out
of the way too for travel or just if you need some extra floor space it folds down nice and compact
and then they've got these two chairs here but it gives you so much floor space i feel like in an rv
it just opens up the possibilities for things like storage and organization so anytime you can open
up those areas it's great which is exactly what they've done with this particular corner here
and then back here because they do travel with two kitties you can see them over here
down underneath here is where they've got the litter box so it's
out of the way and then they've got just a place for the cats to kind of perch here
and then they just put two regular kind of reclining type chairs here what was here
before were a couple of chairs but they weren't the reclining style not super comfortable so they
got rid of the chairs that came from the factory and just got some nice super comfortable recliners
that are easy to move around to for those travel days when this slide does come in and you have to
get everything ready to be transported so i want to show you what they've done back in the bedroom
because there's a couple fun hacks back there too so let's go back in the bedroom and check it out
so one of the things that i really love is just this little kind of tile that my dad
put in here that goes in between where the sink and toilet are and then the shower is
i'm digging this tile and i'm getting ideas for our rv already on maybe a spot i can use this type
of tile so make sure you've hit that subscribe button because there will most likely be a future
video with this style of tile with something that i've got in mind already for our rig but let's
take a look at the bedroom because i think that this is pretty cool what they've done back in here
again they took down the horrible just trim that rv manufacturers tend to put on these
slide outs and put the pine board back here with those upholstery attacks again
which just makes everything look so much better but one thing that i love are these barn style
doors now my dad actually built these himself um just with wood and then the bead board and then
got this tracking system and hung all of this up but the cool thing is is that their closet before
had just a dead space to where there was actually a section that came out to about here
which meant when they wanted to install a washer dryer well you wouldn't have any access to it from
the front because it would have actually covered it up so this was a mod that actually kind of
was needed to be able to have their washer dryer in here and just be able to access it
so putting up this barn style door he was able to make bigger doors than what existed previously by
pulling out kind of the blockage that existed and then hang up these barn style doors
so that's something i absolutely love now here this is something that's super cool
right up in here what they did is these are actually pillowcases that my dad put then pieces
of reflectix in so refletix is one of those things that we absolutely love as rvers because
it helps block out heat it helps block out colds it helps block out light so when you have a window
right next to where your head is at night the last thing you want is anything light filtering
because then it just you've got like a light shining you in the face sometimes
depending upon the campground you at you add depending upon the campground you're at
or if you're you know in a boondocking situation or something like that so having this reflectix
inside of this is just a pillowcase that they hot glued some trim on so it looks beautiful you
would never know that that's what that was but it's like a super cool just mod that they did
so back here is just peel and stick wallpaper looks fantastic and then just to have some
cushioning if you have your head up here this is just some foam that they put up here with some
straps and then again those upholstery tacks so it looks gorgeous this has a king size bed in it so
this is kind of like you know the creme de la creme of rv beds with it just being that nice
big king size bed and then the walls in here have been painted as well so everything just
looks bright and airy and just so much more comfortable when it comes to full-time living
it really feels just like you know a small apartment or a tiny house which really is what our
rvs kind of end up being to us is these are our homes this is my parents home for the time that
they're full timing and then we'll see what the next season of life brings but i absolutely love
these mods so another mod that they did was all of these types of places where it kind of has like
this upholstery my dad recovered all of this with this white licking upholstery you can kind of see
up in here what it looked like before it literally looks like some sort of maroon snake skin it's
it's just horrible looking as far as what it looks like before but this makes everything look clean
and just brighter and so there's several areas in here where you've got some of these door tracks
that the manufacturer installed this type of just sort of upholstery board that they recovered and
it just makes everything look clean and nice and bright so here in the bathroom there's really only
two major things that they did and that is just some peel and stick backsplash which looks really
great against the countertops and then painting the walls and so if you have an rv and you want to
just do one thing that's going to help brighten it up just painting the walls can make a world
of difference in your rv so just kind of like it did in here didn't take a lot but just that
paint brightens everything up and just makes it feel a lot more like a home so here in the shower
area what they did is they did something similar to what we did in the back bedroom of ours and
that is put this light filtering film window film over the skylight and so that just you know brings
down the light level a little bit too also if you have one of those skylights that are somewhat more
on the clear side just you know gives a little bit more of a feeling of privacy so they put that up
here in the shower and i absolutely love the way that it looks another upgrade that they did was
this light fixture here i absolutely have several light fixtures in our rig that i want to change
out so this gives me some inspiration now i asked my dad about this specifically because we want
to change out some of our light fixtures and so actually this is a light fixture you can just pick
up on amazon or a home depot and the key is is to make sure that you get the right type of bulb
for rv wiring versus your household wiring but you can use a standard household type of light fixture
as long as you're using a 12 volt bulb versus your standard household bulb it works in this type of
light fixture just great so on the fridge they painted these panels white they of course were
the lovely rv brown that so many are but in this particular model you've got just kind of smaller
no clue where this came out of broke their fridge i broke their fridge nice i just broke the fridge
i'm guessing yeah just next time they open
the fridge and it falls out we'll just be like what did you do what'd you do
what'd you do anyway okay so they've just got kind of your standard
sized norcold fridge that's in here nothing too big my dad's got a fan in here that
helps just keep everything super cold and then we have some of these that we like to use in our
fridge too to keep things from sliding around but on the outside very nice and clean look
that they did here with the paint on the fridge as well so we hope that you enjoyed this tour video
of this 2019 arctic fox fifth wheel we just absolutely love everything that my parents
have done in here if you have any questions leave them in the comments below we'll definitely get
you any answers to any questions that you have on rv renovation or if you have any questions on
this specific unit as well they've been on the road full-time for the last three years in it
it's been a great rig for them and we're happy to answer any questions that you might have in the
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