so I am super excited about this video because if you watched our video from last week and if
you didn't I'll put a link up here but we've been doing some RV reno mods with the help of Stuart
from living small dreaming big and we're done with phase one so I'm super excited to show you guys
how this turned out and he's done speedy Stuart I'm not fast you're just slow that is very true
I need to get more stuff and this is one of my favorite things that we have gained as this year
I was planning on just getting a prefab front door for it but yeah there's huge gap
just can't find anything nowadays so did you find it no I'll make everything
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I matched the drawers as close as I could get so it looks good
I said wow up until painting time yeah
does it fit
it fits of course it fits
you know it's like that measure once cut 15 times right film the last one
I love that that looks amazing I mean it's the cheap option you
know since you guys don't want to do counters yeah
just don't get me started you found a workaround well she wanted the
you know it on a switch so your cat doesn't keep turning it on so I just found a little
little remote control so you don't need bluetooth or wireless or anything so
we'll see how it works I've never used it before but it's like rudimentary because everything's
smart nowadays so we can just put that on the wall and just click it like our max air fans
are you know pretty much that way you can turn it off so the cats don't you know start boiling water
so that turns it off and on yeah so as far as like what you've seen digging into stuff like
what do you see as far as build quality goes for fleetwood pretty good I mean I mean it's
obviously you know solid cabinets it was nice when we pulled the stove out that it already had
you know the divider from the oven to like where the furnace is a lot of cases it's just you know
an open void and this is an 04 04. yeah so I mean it's an old coach and still you know relatively
solid so I mean obviously everything that we're taking out it's just you know old-school things
it's not necessarily broken and just you know it's old what's been the biggest challenge so
far not necessarily a challenge it's just cutting the counter is just annoying just because you know
I had to take a quarter inch off of both sides and then the back so then getting in there was kind of
just a pain and then obviously up in the front just obviously because of the tv just nothing
was square so it was a nightmare because there was a different measurement for every single side so
it was just uh it was fun to play around with to say the least and that's the stuff you don't see
actually I mean what I'm seeing now I'm I'm not able to see what you mean but I can't yeah I was
just like exactly it looks good the end product looks amazing and that's what we're after so
yay phase one phase one
the thing that that blows me away is how the you got it to match so well with the other
cabinet stuff because that's like I mean this is all from 04 right and then like it looks the
same color which is just like wow just the first step before we paint the cabinets right right
all right and then it'll all change so oh this is gonna be so amazing oh so amazing I can't wait
to start loading it up and then the gas lines just is just capped off okay so we can turn the
propane back on whenever yes this is so nice so this number one number one is the stove yep okay
that's awesome yeah see this is like when I use this last time I was just you just
barely like touch it so it was like if you were wiping it and it's like the power's on
it activates so cool and then hit one again to like cut the power it looks so clean
I know it looks like it was meant to be so the nice thing about this particular silverware tray
and I just picked this one up on Amazon but it's expandable so will it fit well yeah it'll it'll
fit because you can make it but you can also like expand it out right but then what I was looking at
and I have a different like smaller thing but I'm just gonna take then like all of my spices right
and I have like a narrower bin but I'm gonna put that there so that way everything
for cooking so like pots and pans will be underneath but everything like for
cooking and stuff isn't like right here well that is like two big things that
are gonna make this space so much more nice to be in I'm glad to help so yes
well thank you so much not a problem yes we'll get everything else off the list incouple of weeks
I need to get more stuff
that is awesome I think we could put the blender down there right
I think the toaster literally I think the toaster could go
probably like right there and everything that we use for like kitchen is in the kitchen right so I
asked Stuart what what three things he would do in this RV if it was his one would be take this
down and now Charity's thinking about taking that down well because we took down the ones above the
bunks and so it's like I know that it's not right like we can do it the thing that was a pain was
that this and we should have just done that when we did this too because it covers up so much yeah
because that would let in a lot more light yeah I'm getting a lot more light in here since this
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so RV kitchen now for me the kitchen is the hub of your typical home I feel like
your RV isn't that much different we always have so much going on in the kitchen area and
of course once that you really learn more about RV lifestyle that you're not on a perpetual vacation
you get out of eating out mode all of the time and you get into more cooking and preparing your own
meals in your RV so we got super brave and so far so good we're gonna keep you posted on how
this continues to work but we ditched the propane stove yes you heard me right it is gone now here's
an interesting little tidbit we sold it within 24 hours of listing it on facebook marketplace
who knew there was a market for that so what we now have for cooking in the RV is a couple things
I use my instant pot a lot in the RV which was another reason we decided to ditch the propane
stove all together we also have a microwave convection oven combo with this we cook things
like if we want to cook like frozen pizzas or something like that we use the convection oven now
make sure you hit that subscribe button because we are going to be hitting the road in less than
a week and I've got some fun recipes that I have been making in the oven at our home base
that we're going to check out in the convection oven so it is going to be trial and error and
test time so you'll have to make sure you hit subscribe for those videos to come
what we have got going on here now this is pretty cool we had Stuart install this induction cooktop
into the counter so this is actually installed recessed into the counter instead of sitting on
top now one thing this is a touch panel induction top so I wanted to make sure that if I touched it
like I am right now it didn't just turn on even though an induction top doesn't get hot to the
touch I didn't want that happening so what Stuart did is we have a remote control power
source so right now there's no power going to this because it's not turned on to the
power source it's plugged into the power source but there's no power going to that
so if I hit the button we now have power and I can now turn it on and cook on this particular top so
when I'm ready to be done I can just completely cut power with the remote it is now completely
off and then we actually have a couple of other options with this particular remote
for things to be plugged in in other places if we want to do something similar
where we don't want something that is say hot all the time we can turn it off with this so
that was super handy easy way to um kind of fix that particular problem so we gained storage
so before what I was using for storage for my pots and pans was
inside of our dinette bench which was fine however we decided that uh reno mods
part two which is coming is going to be getting rid of some more of the overhead cabinets
so we're gonna be losing that storage which is fine because we've gained it in other spots and
this is one of my favorite things that we have gained as this year Stuart actually built a drawer
and then this is a two drawer pull out so I now have a spot for all of my silverware
all of my spices that I use for cooking and things like that is next to the stove which
just makes so much more sense these are actually soft closed drawers too so when you go to close it
it has that soft close which also helps to keep it secure during those travel days so this is just
amazing now I used to have to put my silverware up in this cabinet here because our drawers
weren't deep enough which then meant I wasn't using these cabinets for anything other than
kind of those types of storage our dishes were in this cabinet over here
it was just kind of a pain reaching across sometimes getting those so now we have been able
to put all of our dishes in this cabinet here so everything we need dish wise plates cups bowls is
right in here all of it so we don't carry a lot with us you're washing dishes every single day
when you are living RV life so you don't really need more than you know one cup per
person or maybe one and a half cups per person so we don't need a lot so we don't carry a lot
and it all fits right here I also have paper plates I have paper bowls for those times where
we're either boondocking or if it's a travel day and I don't have a lot of access to water
and I'm concerned about water usage and or filling up the waste tanks I'll go to paper
or plastic cutlery for that kind of stuff other than that we've got all the real stuff right here
and it fits in one cabinet so that means we have got a whole empty cabinet here to be able
to fill up with food and whatever else that we need here and then a whole nother empty cabinet
over here for more food and then here's the other wonderful part of this so where we used to
keep all of our camera equipment and anything that was just kind of tech related was in
this overhead cabinet here we now have this mostly cleared out to be able to put more food
or whatever else that we need to to keep in here so we've got some rainy day games because
every once in a while you get those rainy days where there's not a lot you can do other than hang
out in the RV and since we're not big on screens we've got some rainy day types of activities up
here and just more space here's a hack these types of shelves where it divides the space
I use these in here I use them in my other cabinets put a link in the description below
but we love those types of things so where is all the camera equipment you might be asking
so glad you asked that question come with me up here now so what was a big huge box
that we hit our head on for an old style tv this rig is a 2004 it is 18 years old almost 19 years
old it's not a spring chicken but we love it so now we have all of the camera equipment
up here this actually has like a small sort of pass-through where we can put more stuff back in
here as well um these little cups hold just miscellaneous cables whatever need to happen
there and more camera equipment and batteries and everything up here there's plenty of power up here
with a couple of different power outlets so things can be plugged in charging when needed all of that
good stuff so we have gained more storage in these areas that then makes it possible to be able to
remove other things that were designed for storage that are just gonna open this thing up and make
it look better okay so I wanted to real quick talk about some of the favorite things about this space
here one being that when you're sitting down here and looking out at the road it really opens it up
and I love that but another thing is as I now have my own dedicated space to put all my things you
know so it's not you know batteries aren't laying on the counter and Charity is not saying Ben
you got batteries laying on the counter and so everything's here I've got my own space
super excited about that two is I've got all the electrical plugs in here um to where I can plug in
all my devices even as I'm going down the road so they're gonna be charging ready to go let me
show you part of reno phase two and I'm not gonna give too much away because we've
got some really fun things that are in the works and you're just gonna have to hit that subscribe
button to find out but all of this is going to go away pulling all of this out it's going to open
all of this up so a few more quick things that we wanted to show you that we just have done recently
and we'll put some links in the description below in case that any of you find this
helpful but we replaced these gas shocks on some of these storage compartment doors
this rig again is older so we do have parts that are worn out and it's just time to replace
them so got those replaced we've been working on organizing these particular storage compartments
one thing we really love about a class a motorhome and part of the reason that we chose a class a
over other types of rvs is the basement storage compartment so we've got all of these here we've
been organizing and putting things in bins really makes for an easy way to carry lots of
things we've got our paddle boards and our kayaks that are all stored in these compartments we're
totally outfitted and ready for the next adventure and it's all stored away nicely and out of the way
when it is not in use so you'll have to let us know in the comments below
if you've done any renovations on your rv do you have questions about renovation just
where your thoughts are regarding that do you have an RV are you still in the dreaming stage
we always love hearing from you guys just where you are in your particular journey as it pertains
to RV life and travel so drop us a comment below and let us know where you're at in that
particular journey I'm gonna put some links for more renovation videos up here put some links for
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