Florida Flip 2...New Kitchen Walls and Porcelain Tile

Florida Flip 2...New Kitchen Walls and Porcelain Tile Hello everyone. It's time for another part of our story. This is the last work we did the first winter we were in FL. We weren't supposed to work on this house at all the first year. We were supposed to do one house per winter for fun...but Mike and I never know how to stop Oh well, when we come back in the Fall...it will be easy to finish. Now that we have everything gutted we are ready for the new drywall and some of the finish work and painting The studs are up and the electric is in for the new kitchen walls. Mike and I hire out for the drywall and finish work. It is much easier and faster for people who do it all the time. Kevin starts hanging drywall in the new kitchen area. The kitchen walls are done. Kevin patching the ceiling. The bathroom walls are done. And the bathroom ceiling. The ceiling out in the main living area. Our new post that had to be installed for the electric that will go to the new kitchen island. The back of the new kitchen wall going down the short hallway to the laundry room. Another bonus of this house. The laundry room is inside Many of them here are in the garage. Kevin spray texturing the ceiling. Kevin is done so it's time for Mike and I to work. Now we can paint the house We stay with white because people usually see it as a clean slate. It isn't offensive to most people and you can very easily change it if you want to First Mike and I move our temporary kitchen into the master bedroom. We don't want anything in our way. We tape everything off and get started. Mike spraying the ceiling. As usual I do the trim. Mike rolling the dining room area. We went back and forth on what kind of floor to do. The last house we did had a very thick warm carpet. This house we want to keep light and bright. We chose an 18" Italian porcelain tile for the main living area. And it's going to be a lot of work Mike mixing the thin set for laying the tile. Moving right along....and we need to move the refrigerator into the garage And one more thing has to be moved out of the room so we can finish I am spreading the thin set one of the last rows for the living room. And the work continues. We lay the tile in the remainder of the living area. It was a big job for us. I don't think Mike and I will do that again. After all of the tile was set with the thin set, we had to grout...the whole floor. Mike filling in some grout. And another view of the whole floor. Once it is all clean it will have a beautiful shine. That's all for this story. We are almost finished with the inside of the house. The hard stuff is done Next time we will be working on the kitchen. I hope you all enjoyed the story. Lisa

Motorhome Remodel Before and After

Time for the fun stuff:):)

The before and after pictures


The motorhome looking back before:

After:

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The kitchen area before with no cabinets...only small drawers that didn't reach all the way back.

And after:

Front of the cabinets with the kick plate underneath.

The new storage underneath.

The wet area:

My cabinet...where the old seat used to be.

Our original door...without a screen which is a stock photo with the seat in the way, no privacy and no screen:

Our new screen door which is awesome:)

That's all for this remodel. It took Mike and I just under a week to do this project. We were also cutting down trees and splitting logs in between, lol.


I hope you enjoyed this story and information.

Happy camping. Time for a road trip 

Motorhome Remodel...Part 3

Time to replace the floor and install a new screen door.
On this day, we were supposed to take off from the motorhome...not. I was down in the house working on inside stuff and canning. I took a break and went up to check on Mike. This is what I found


Half of the old flooring is out of the motorhome, and of course Niki found a seat.

I went inside the motorhome to see what Mike was up to. He was patching the old floor and getting it ready for the new flooring. He has two spots to fix before we can put the new floor down. First is the hole where the old post and table went. We never used this table because it made the motorhome too crowded so out it goes. And he has to patch the floor where the one back passenger seat was.

Mike cutting out some of the subfloor so he can patch it.

The square is out.

Patching it with bondo.

While he does that I get the perimeter of the rest of the floor cut free.

I get that out of the motorhome and start scraping all the glue off the floor.


Mike fills in the last hole which is from the old seat that was behind the front passenger seat.

We are ready. The bondo is dry and the floor is scraped clean of the glue.


We are using individual vinyl floor strips. We chose this for ease of installation, color, and availability at the store.


Mike starts at the side door opening.

Once he gets past the first strips I help him with peeling back the paper and lining up the strips to lay on the floor.


It's coming along nicely.

After the floor we go back to finishing the counter. We have to use what is called end caps which is sold separately for stock counter tops. They are made to be heated on the the ends of the counter top.


Mike ironing the end cap onto the front of the countertop.

And ironing into the back part of the counter.

Next Mike and I discuss adding a screen door since the ERA motorhome does not have one.  Mike wants to make a kit and try to sell it...unfortunately it is too complicated for the average person to install.

We start out by testing the size with a door from our house.

Now that we have the size we have to search down a retractable screen door that will fit.  We found one Larson door from a Lowe's store about 3 hours from us.  So off we go.  We hope this works.  Then again Mike can make most things work:)

Mike starts off by placing the new door in position.  Next he has to take measurements to make templates.  Side walls have to be made and painted.  The hard part is making the side walls because they have to be curved.

Mike gets the right side done...this is the easier side:

Next he works on the left side.  Mike had to take out part of the ceiling to install the side wall and then replace it.

The door from the inside:

Looking at it from the back of the motorhome:

And now we have a new screen door....maybe the only Era with a real retractable screen door out there:)  We are very happy with the result:)

We are finished with this remodel.  My next post will be the before and afters...my favorite:)