whoa this looks like a brand new RV almost the bunk slower I mean
the light oh my gosh okay I'm ready to see this oh
look at this the painted cabinets make such a big difference
just to give you an idea of what this RV looked like
before that we did kind of our first renovation about a year ago
all right so what are we getting ourselves into here well this is going to be called renault phase
2 but this is going to be demo just because after stewart helped us out with the first stuff that he
helped us out with and we've got more on the to-do list but one thing he mentioned when we just asked
him any ideas or suggestions he had was taking this out and so now i am just like we have to rip
it out like we just need to get it out so we're gonna try taking this out and hope that it's not
one of those things that was a big mistake right before getting ready to get on the road because
i don't know what's up here as far as wires and everything else but we're about to find out all
right let's find out a few moments later this is where we need to make sure we have the right tool
for the job but when we took this cabinet down there's these really large holes that
are in the wall currently from these cords and stuff that were just run through here
and then whenever the manufacturer put the cabinets in they're not too worried
about aesthetics because they're being covered with cabinets so we've got to fill these in and
at first ben's idea was just to use some spackle which you can see works great on this small hole
back here and you can see it doesn't work so great on these big holes because the hole is just too
big you can't spackle this in plus the way that a lot of these rvs are manufactured is there's
like a foam insulation in the walls and that's kind of how they're insulated and so
more foam that's my solution more foam we're going to foam it because this is the proper
tool for the job so all right hoping i don't make too big of a mess am i doing this right
nothing's happening
stop it's coming is it coming up there okay easy easy does it
you can get carried away quick and it foams up fast well that's what I'm trying to
there's like some gaps behind the wall
here's my dilemma right now we're taking this off is that
there's this wall behind here is not gonna be painted
and I'm gonna have to go find the paint to match it do you know where we put that paint I don't
because it's going to be ugly I mean when you take this off it's going to be a big
brown stripe and I don't know where the penis is moments later how much foam is behind that cord
I am terrified now of what this is
and this isn't even dry it still isn't dry on today's episode of what not to do
yeah yeah that's why we have yeah we'll get it fixed
I'm just I'm capturing this just to send your wife to
give her proof that you can use a vacuum, uh to be fair I vacuum 90 of the time oh okay
this looks like a brand new RV most the bunk slower I mean wow oh the light oh my gosh
this doesn't look like the same rv there's way more light coming in a ton more or less that's a
thing like that window was half covered before any tic tacs later i'm gonna just kind of go over some
of the changes in the finished product so excited for kind of this big reveal but a few things that
we actually did on our own on the outside that i wanted to show you first before we step inside so
let's take a look at that okay so the first thing i really wanted to do on the outside
was to replace the headlights with led lights because when we drove at night we could not see
very well at all it was so dim even with the fog lights on so i did some research
on some online forums and found the year and model of the headlight housing and it was like a ford
expedition was able to get the exact same housing in a brand new light fixture and it was just plug
and play so i just had to unscrew the old one put the new one in and then put the led light in
just match up all the wires and it was good to go and i figured while i did that i might as well put
in some led fog lights as well so now when you turn on these lights holy cow it is very bright
because all the light is now focused and is a ton brighter as well as more energy efficient
okay i'm super excited to show you the inside but first one thing i have to show you before we
actually walk in that was part of this renault is these steps are completely new completely re-done
so what we had going on here before was just horrible but a lot of it was because there is
a carpeted flap that would sit over there for when you're driving down the road we didn't really need
it so this little solution that stuart did is amazing and i love it all right let's go inside
so there are so many things that changed in here that completely brightened it up but one of my
favorite changes in here is this slide trim so this slide trim around all three slides
here on the other side and in the bedroom so this is all new and i feel like that this totally took
at least 10 years off the age of this rig because of what was here before just looked very dated
and this looks very kind of modern farmhousey type of feel so this is one of the changes that stuart
helped us make on both of the slides and then another huge change is all of this cabinetry that
was painted so we have these uppers that are white and then on the lowers this the name of the color
is called urban bronze but as you can see it's kind of a dark gray color now one of the things
that we chose to do and i wasn't so sure how it was going to turn out was to reuse the original
hardware so the hinges and the handles are the original ones that were here before and after that
these were painted and he put all this back on i was so happy that we decided to keep these because
they look really nice and elegant the colors just match really really well and of course it was
a little bit of a cost savings as well not having to purchase brand new hardware if you saw our
videos from a couple weeks ago you saw that prior to this phase two of renault we installed this
induction cooktop got rid of the propane stove and then added more storage down here and so we'll put
a link up above for the video where we talk more about this in depth when we made that change now
you saw just a little bit ago about the upper cabinet over on this side above the dinette so
i'm really excited with how this turned out as far as the finished product goes
but we were able to add more of the peel and stick wallpaper on this side of the dinette that
cabinet is now gone which just really opened up a lot of this to feel more nice and open
and then this light fixture i'll put a link in the description below but this came from amazon
and it is just a standard household light fixture with 12 volt light bulbs so the light bulbs came
from amazon as well i'll drop a link in case that you're interested in those so another mod we did
as part of this renault phase 2 was these dimmable led lights now these came from leisure rv and i
will put a link in the description for these below but these are genius because they're actually
dimmable leds so you can change the brightness or you can turn down the brightness of course just
shut them off completely but very nice for those evenings where you need some light but
maybe you don't want blinding light but also those times when you do want a nice bright light to see
whatever it is that you're working on so thanks to leisure rv for sending those our way we absolutely
love them and then we've got all of the new slide trim up here as well and then the bunks
some of you have wondered if we got rid of the bunks the bunks are still here but what stewart
was able to do was open these up more so what it was like before was more of almost like a jail
that the kids felt a little bit like that they were in a small prison when they were in their
beds but now it's nice and open and my daughter trinity who's up here was so excited she goes
i can actually give you a hug without having to crawl through the bars to give you a hug at night
so nice and open and it just makes this whole living area feel so much more open
with having that kind of opened up there so the next thing that stuart helped us accomplish
was changing out the colors of the panels on the fridge
now if you have one of these four panel norcold fridges here is a hack that is pretty cool so
you can take this off slide these panels out to paint them and then slide them back in
i'm having trouble ben you're gonna need that back on there you go there okay snap it on pretty easy
takes the magic even though she didn't make it look ready i know you can make it look easier
so got this white to match and then all of these areas that were a wood color before
we painted white so this was kind of a wood color before it's all nice and white and clean
lower drawer is nice and white to just match the painting on the rest of the cabinetry
so one of the things that was super cool that stuart did here back in the bedroom in addition to
the new slide trim that is back here is that he actually repurposed these closet doors so one of
the things that we really wanted was a different look they they were just plain mirrors looked very
dated this whole track system up here was just kind of like a silver color what we really would
have loved would have been like the barn door look that you see in so many newer
rvs but because of where our slide is and the clearance that is needed for our slide to come out
there's not the room to be able to put up that type of a track system and have the doors sit on
the outside of the closet they have to be where they are so stewart was just total macgyver man
in coming up with this really cool mod so these are the original closet doors
painted and then with like a geometric pattern put over the top of them so it gives it a really cool
updated look and feel repurposes what was there so no waste or anything there behind me all of this
where it was kind of a wood color all of this got painted with the cabinet paint all of the cabinets
that are down below this counter here got painted white as well we had already painted the walls
white during our first renovation about a year ago so i'll put a link up above if you want to watch
that very first kind of renault video just to give you an idea of what this rv looked like before
that we did kind of our first renovation about a year ago i'm going to take you into the bathroom
because right now there's only been one change made to the bathroom from how it originally was
so it gives you a really good idea of how it might have looked before let's go look at the bathroom
okay so if you can see this lovely wallpaper in this lovely border in this lovely wood color
this is how it looked before so this is our last section of rv to do something renovation wise
now one thing that stuart did in here that we needed badly was a different toilet so stuart
installed this toilet that e-trailer sent to us and this is more like a household type toilet
is a ceramic base not plastic much easier to keep clean so super thankful to e-trailer and we will
put a link in the description below for e-trailer as well because we love all of the things that
e-trailer carries not just from hitches and things like that but for other products for rv living
and they've just got great support so talking about the toilet is probably a great place to
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okay i'm ready to see this oh look at this the painted cabinets make such a big difference
yep those are then this is all new yeah so all the slide trims knew so he pulled down all the
old slide trim and then re-trimmed the slides bunk beds that looks fantastic this feels this
is really tall right here it feels that way we actually we over built these bunks a little
so he modified this and brought it down a little bit of the level here so that it just felt more
open and then we took out the propane stove oh fancy it's gonna be so much easier to clean so
there's no more propane stove yes and then this is an induction cooktop i actually made biscuits
and gravy when we were in the keys and i put i made the biscuits in here and they turned off
just fine and so in place of the propane stove we had a lot of storage yeah that's awesome we gained
tons of storage because you used to have cabinets up here right there were cabinets all along there
i remember that kind of like these ones here so we lost all of that with making this look more open
did you just design that he okay so he modded this so this actually this like
shelf thing he found at home depot and amazingly like it was the exact size pretty much
that it needed to be and so he made he built this drawer front okay to match everything else yep to
match everything else like i mean he had like a little router on his truck and everything to like
route the trim to make it look like the same fronts as everything else
oh go ahead
that's a total fail oh man
just spray it down in there you go good thing with a sprayer if you'd like to take a look at some
so if you have any questions about rv renovation now we're not the experts but we have learned a
thing or two so you can drop those in the comments below we'll definitely answer any
questions that you guys leave there we'll also have a link below for stuart thompson
with thompson rv services and living small dreaming big because he was a huge help on
this project and something we definitely could have not tackled all of this on our own so we're
very thankful to have had stewart's help in this particular phase two of renovation one last thing
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