Put The Floor Tiles In

Alright so after finally finishing up the wood restoration, it's time to install our new floor.  We decided to go with Vinyl Composite Tiles (harlequine white and lemon yellow), just like "mobiltec" did in his youtube videos "restoring the deville".  Turns out these tile are somewhat eco friendly too. They're made by Armstrong with recycled content and no VOCs, the tile adhesive we used was VOC free as well  ;-)

Spreeding tile adhesive it took
about 3hrs to dry clear and tacky

Laying the tiles, with much help from the you
tube videos by redneckresponder on "laying
vinyl tiles"  his tutorial videos were a huge help
to us, you've got to check them out if you're
planning to lay these type of floor tiles.



Finised product! after they set a few days we'll polish them up and make the
floor look real purdy ;-)  Amazing how the new floor really seems to
open up the whole space inside the trailer.

Interior Wood Restoration Finished!

Alright so one correction from the previous post, we decided that the amber colored shellac (even just one coat) made the new birch wood panels too dark.  So... on new birch we did one coat of half amber and half clear, followed by three coats of clear shellac, and on the exhisting original wood we sanded and put 4 coats of clear shellac on.  A lot of work but is's looking pretty good; not perfect still some staining and imperfectins seen in the old wood but all in all we're pretty happy with how it looks.  As a side note... I did touch up paint over a couple spots on the original wood that was water damaged. I use a little acrylic pain to color match to the birch- shh don't tell, you tcan't even see it ;-)   I'll try and post more photos of the final product soon (hopefully with better photo quality too).

All the cupboards and drawers out/off our driveway became
a serious work zone