The Grand Tour

I am supposed to be creating Christmas cards, but instead I found pictures online of an RV that is identical to ours and thought I would give the grand tour for anyone interested.  So if you don't get a Christmas card from us you can just read this blog post and know we love you :)

We will start with a lovely picture of the outside.  Not quite sure why RV's have to be so hideous looking, but it seems to be a requirement.  I'm guessing having all those lovely swirls of gold mean something to someone.  I would prefer a cool ocean scene myself.  Or maybe a forest so I could blend in.  Although to blend in I might need to paint it with pictures of other hideous looking RV's.  Kind of an RV inception.

Luckily, that is where the hideousness ends.  Up to a few years ago, the interiors of RV's also had to be hideous.  But thankfully someone somewhere said..."you know what, there might be people out there that would prefer their couches to be all one color, not some giant floral pattern which matches the curtains which matches the wallpaper."

So as you walk in the front door, here is the main living area.

Not too bad looking.  Quite honestly, it's the nicest furniture I have ever owned.  You can see in the top of the picture the loft where my little girl will sleep.  It's big enough for two small children.  We will make it a sweet hideaway with a comfy bed, book shelves, electronics charging station and even room for a stuffed animal or two.  

Here is a closeup of the kitchen.  Yeah, super small.  The fridge is decent.  The oven is miniscule.  We figure we have enough storage for kitchen stuff or food...not both :)  Here is where our creativity will kick in.  We are already making plans for how to continue baking our super yummy chocolate chip cookies.  

Here is another view of the long couch.  Each section is a recliner.  The holes in the floor are for tables.  We haven't decided if the tables will stay up, stay down, or where exactly we will eat, but again...this is a fun puzzle for us to figure out.  You can see the loft again.  It has a curtain that closes it all off if she would like some privacy.

This is the other side of the living area.  We plan on taking out that loveseat and putting it in my new office.  In that space we will put a desk for our computers.  The TV is 50" which makes me laugh.  Why would someone need a 50" inch TV in this small of a space?  In fact the RV comes with 3 TV's.  And we really don't watch hardly any TV.  I'm hoping I can scan all my pictures and use the TV as a huge picture frame.  And yes, that is a fireplace underneath it.  I can't wait to use it.

This is the back garage area.  Officially it's for hauling your 4 wheelers and such.  For us it's a kid's area.  As you can see there is a bed and couches which go up and down electrically.  This area will be my son's.  During the day the bed can be raised to the ceiling.  We will probably take out one or both of the couches and put in a desk.  We will carpet the whole area to make it feel like a bedroom, not like he has been relegated to the garage.  See that stuff on the back door, that folds down to be a super cool patio.  The couches can form into a bed or a table can be put in the holes in the floor to be an eating area.  And he even has his own door if he wants to sneak out at night when we are asleep.  We are going to put up a curtain and make the front few feet of the garage a play area for our youngest.  That way she has a place to play other than the loft area.  I will take pics when it is all done.  I sincerely hope it looks as awesome in person as it does in my head.

This is taken from the garage looking back inside.  You can see TV number 2, storage and the door leads to a half-bath.

A teeny tiny half bath.  It was important to us that the RV have 2 toilets.  This will work perfectly.

This is taken from the sliding glass door towards the front.  You can see the stairs up to the main bathroom and master bedroom.

This is the main bathroom.  The shower is bigger than I have right now.  There is a decent amount of storage, we will just have to plan out our shower schedule a bit more carefully than we do now.

And here is the master bedroom.  It's small, hardly bigger than the bed.  You have to sit on the bed to get to the closet and if we get a washer/dryer it will go in the vented closet.  We chose one with a small bedroom on purpose.  We figured it was more important to have a larger living area than a larger bedroom.  I do wish there were cabinets above the bed and we will have to figure out how to make small little shelves since we have no bedside tables.

This is the other side of the bedroom.  To the right of the vented closet you can see a small cabinet.  This opens and a 3rd TV slides out.  Seriously...why so many TV's?

For those of you who need a floor plan to fully visualize our home.  Because it is so complicated :)

So what do you think?   I'm in love and cannot wait to move in.