Full-time Family 5th Wheel RV Tour (Coachmen Chaparral 373MBRB bunkhouse)

[Music] [Music] my wife will do the copy for us from ubereats hey you're watching wrecking the role in I'm Dan I'm Jenna we're the Thompsons hey you're watching rocking and rolling I'm Dan I'm Jenna and we're the Thompsons and we've got an RV [Music] [Applause] [Music] so because of everything that's going on we are quarantined back in our hometown so since we can't be out filming our adventures that we'd normally be doing right now we decided we do that cheesy cliche RV home tour so we're going to show you the sort of ins and outs of our rig and how we make it work for full-time RV living for a family of four on the road and so this here is our 2018 coachman Chaparral 373 MBR B so it's actually a three bedroom two full bathroom house on wheels we definitely needed something like this for us to transition from our full-sized three-bedroom two-bathroom house and I'm super glad that we got this model to begin with because it definitely offers a lot of privacy and it actually is a pretty sleek and lightweight design so despite being 41 feet tip-to-tail this thing is actually pretty lightweight also total including the ACS on top this thing is only twelve and a half feet tall so I can actually pull into a lot of gas stations and stuff that those 14 foot v wheels can't fit in once we take a look inside you'll notice that we are not lacking in ceiling height at all it still feels plenty big and plenty spacious inside so how about I show around the outside and you show around the inside which real quick we just talked about this awesome screen can we out of everything in my favorite accessory that we've added to this thing is definitely this screen right here this magnetic screen is a super game-changer because you can walk in and out and it automatically closes behind you it's completely hands-free this is gonna go in every rig we ever have for the rest of our lives okay good now let's go inside all right when you first come in Eric you see the kids bedroom but we're not gonna talk about that just yet we are gonna go into the kitchen first so let me show you that first gosh dang good okay so I want to show you some things in the kitchen that worked for us you know it's really working for me right now that ice machine I know a background noise Dan told me we could not fit this ice machine in here and he's like there's gonna be no space for and I said well we're gonna make space for it and I'm not gonna admit that that was actually a really wise choice okay so the things in here that we loved that came with the rig the two door fridge is a two-door two-way french one still about half the size of a residential bridge right it's pretty narrow I mean I'll show you it's kind of messy but I'll show you so it's it's narrow but it does fit quite a bit of stuff you know and it's like two separate compartments it works great and we love it so and look at all this countertop space you guys that live in RVs you know that countertop space is a precious come on appeal and look at all this beautiful countertop space we even extended it here with our little IKEA shelf and I thought this was a great option because we were able to get a little bit more storage in it without taking up too much space it fit in here really nice we're able to fit pots and pans down below extra prep space the only thing that is a bummer about the island is that you can't fit two people in here the same excuse me let me flip the eggs versus it's kind of chaotic it works and I'm so grateful to the counter space so we made it work in here there was originally two of these rollout drawers so they couldn't fit my precious ninja booty and had to fit it so I had Darrin take out the second bar sorry our kids are what do you need bud but was it say hey hip-hop are you a rapper which we just talked about how great this magnetic screen is but back to this the drawer that was down here Dan converted it into this awesome pullout trash that we can hide away and Dan gave me this okay let's just talk about this very second cuz the original like the thought on any of the faucets more plastic and they creaked every time you turned it was like not to mention it how to hot and cold on either side so when you wanted to get like that perfect temperature especially if your boo knocking and you know water is precious I had to keep like keep it on to keep that perfect warm temperature for dishes and now I don't have that is an awesome upgrade other things we added a girl come on in what does it say that's right yeah voice inflection and everything so one thing that we loved about this rig when we got it what we were looking for was a lot of storage space we opted to add these Universal shelves so that we could optimize the storage that we did have inherently effective boom double to the space that we get in our pantry and just about just about every storage space in this thing and I just have to throw her under the bus she made this assignment day and wanted as for me and my house we will serve tacos anga Rita's 24th mega Rita's who wants a mega every dad ok when you're walking around inside your rig and the whole thing is shaking it's very obvious that you're living in a trailer but if you can stabilize it so that it's rock solid it goes a long way into making you forget that you're in a trailer and feel more like a home so here's a couple of things that I use to help stabilize our rig firstly I have this kingpin stabilizer right here it actually takes out about I would say 80 to 90 percent of the wobble that these trailers have it's that effective not to mention it makes an excellent bike rack for you to change your bikes to when you leave so my other sort of secret is this little fifteen or twenty dollar scissor jack that you can get from Harbor Freight and as you can see I use it to just support the rear bumper right there and between that and the kingpin stabilizer it definitely takes out like 99% of the wobble in the trailer so on to the living room ambience is still great you don't have to run the heat but this thing does heat so much in this space yeah we can tell you we wintered in Oklahoma which I don't recommend down in freezing temperatures and stuff or New Mexico at 4 degrees yes yeah we've been in a lot of really cool places and that heater has been a champion yeah it's been great it's homey so it kind of makes it just feel really nice in here I did add some things to make it more homey we added this rug that seems to fit perfectly in this space just kind of warms it up a little bit makes it feel a little bit more like home we changed out our couch from the original yeah why do we do that originally was theater seating where it just is basically two seats oh the cup holder in the middle while Dan was extremely sad to get rid of this cup holder in the middle I wanted a catch where we all could gather together and cozy up on and dan has to admit it's cozy it's been a thousand times better comfort most importantly the leather doesn't stick to my butt if I've been in it video editing for hours on end of course we have some sweet decorations I made this sign and we also got some of that ice maker we got some of these pic phones made I'm sure you guys have seen these around these are pretty great just to make it feel more like home dining area we left it like this we love this awesome I don't like booths this came with the dinette and we love it customizable the other side down make it smaller how many meals do we eat at this table every meal every nail lots of people that do this lifestyle they like to eat outside the outside is great except there's bugs so we this is the home this worked out really well it's everything that I made for host bull and that's out of sight real quick I'm gonna give you a tour of my secret compartment Oh dance apartment so the previous owner of this rig had a maintenance cap to help keep the pests out which was totally cool except for she put a cap door in our rig but down here you can see my wife cleverly hid it with leftover material from our custom curtains right down here we have a cat door that leads to the outdoor kitchen but in between the kitchen and the outdoor kitchen there's like some dead space have to be that close to my face but in between the dining room and the outdoor kitchen there's a little nook where I like to keep tools that I want to be able to access both from inside or outside so I've got my drill bits and a drill wires duct tape so all this stuff easily accessible without having to go outside but I can also access these tools outside when they're even as well I told my wife that I was going to add a nice looking door there to make it look nice well we've had it for a year now and we've been living in it for ten months mm-hmm because the curtain looks so good that's fine so inside here is where all these solar accessories are stored so we got our six AGM batteries we got our solar boost certain charge controllers and our Magnuson Magnum energy inverter and I wish I was smart enough to say that I installed all this but actually we bought the rig with this stuff already pre-installed and that turned out to be a really smart investment because we do carry a small little backup generator and how many times have we use that baby no we've never used the generator because we are never without power with our awesome solar and I run power tools and stuff on a regular basis as you guys know my other channel guns of guitars want things that I do is I build guitars for YouTube and I'm never without power even on a cloudy day we still get plenty from our six two hundred watt solar panels so another reason that we chose this rank was because there is a lot of privacy you can close this door but you can close the store make it into into the bedroom if you wanted to or just an office or gym can film back here which he has before or the kids can play back here and we can show or in hats it's a general use multi-purpose room it originally had a couch that folds up into a bed but what we found out is when we took the couch out we had more space for the kids because they don't have as much space in them it's based into their bedrooms and you can still fit a full-size bullet mattress in here if you happen to have a guest which we thought we might and we never have we mostly use all the storage in here as the kids except for four drawers for dance dance dance dance dance dance can we get our stuff let's take a break and talk about dance dance so in here we have another awesome big-screen TV that I was sure that I needed to have we pretty much never used it but what I do use from time to time are these awesome studio monitors I make my living on a different YouTube channel called Gunz guitars which requires me to do a lot of recording and stuff so this is kind of where it happens sometimes honestly a lot of times it's easier for me to just record a list of earbuds instead of using the big speakers but it's good to have them down here we've got our church station for our laptops in our kids tablets for travel days this is my wife's awesome idea she dreaded this little power strip in here so that we can have that stuff charged and ready to go all the time but out of sight out of mind I got our battery charging station here for our cameras which are constantly running between our two channels and then down here I've got my beat-up silver play button and some more camera equipment so humblebrag no home is complete so since we got rid of the couch in here we also have no I want to just I wanted to say that that was the rewind sound okay look were even listen to yeah I know alright so since we did the couch out in here we wanted some seating in case we did want to watch TV and the kids want to watch TV in here or we had guests and all we have is the couch so we bought these awesome dish chairs which we can just quickly please set up and have in here and they both fit in here really nicely tear down pretty easy and they're actually really comfortable so they're big enough for adults which not a lot of these dishes chairs are and they break down really easy to yeah it's Barney's organization here we have all of the kids this is everything that they were allowed to bring with them one drawer is missing people playing with it right now but this is everything they have I just kind of change it out as grandmas and grandpas get them stuff for Christmas and whatnot where do we get those handy drawers that fit perfectly those are Amazon so I can actually if you would like I can link the description I can I can do it myself actually Dan's gonna do it we can put the description down in the box see you guys kids we can put the description down in the description I don't do this we can put the link to these down in the description box if you would like to see if they've been in your rig there we go so a sweet little space-saving hack that my wife came up with we absolutely love playing board games and the problem is board game boxes take up so much space so she came up with this awesome little hack well we have these little tiny drawers where you could just pull it out like this one here is Candyland so it's got all the stuff you need to play Candyland it's set for the actual board which again you just pull out right here play Candyland takes up way less space and it's super easy to find it's very organized I do want to say that our house looks this clean and organized all the time no way did we spend all day turn and look nice for camera this is the way it looks so fun to go in there I can't go in there with you it's a guest bathroom we did replace that faucet fixture because there's a plastic Ian creaky and terrible and you have a full show well that's over suppose full shower with a BAFTA I won't show the bathtub because it's dirty sorry but one thing that's pretty cool and I may not be able to get it with this camera is our organizer here you got the loofah has become all that stuff hangs from the curtain rod so one thing I want to mention about the bathrooms both bathrooms neither of them came with toilet paper holders or place to put like a hand towel so we did find a few things on Amazon that worked awesome and they just stick on they don't have the drill holes they're easy to put on I'll put a description in this yeah and of course privacy that was really creepy [Laughter] love that ice machine so we have to walk really far this way to get to the kids room come on over put this up just four keys inside glasses a man's wallet and stuff I do not use this this is really damn station over here we use this white board usually we put our plans for where we're going on here and where we're gonna be next yeah where we going now we're stuck like everybody else oh this looks so sad you could see how many loads of laundry we've done since we do have a little drop station here where we keep these are magnetic and we keep these Oh light flashlights connected to this and your community in here yes we do not a lot of shoes in the house no we do the original owner didn't either and so he kept up on that no shoes have ever been worn in this house it suffered when you just really have to grab something that's really inconvenient to take them off we did choose to add a little bit of decor if you will on this area we had this made by a good friend of ours I'll actually have Dan link her information she does some awesome here in the hallway before we go into the kids room is where we've been which is not very many places yet we were supposed to go this way but kovin sent us back here another drop station for Dan more big phones to brighten up the place see beautiful pictures of where we've been along the way oh yeah Hey look at that privacy so in this great big space for the kids which is actually on a slide we did love that the bunks were full-size and they were on top of each other this way which allows for the kids to kind of have their own cubby space they like it and we actually switch it up monthly so that one's not always on top they like to switch okay pretty girl huh viously is on top yeah at the moment and then we have a man down here we have of course what every RV Earl of Caesars Betty it's very difficult to use these are Betty's these are amazing they're amazing every our viewer should have them they're great they just zip right up and the kids can make them and they look amazing I did do a few decoration things in here for the kids wanted to make it feel like their rooms at home we chose not to paint or do things like that and this just as it is a newer model so we did what we could to make it feel like home so we also got a couple of lifetime tables that fit perfectly in spaces just in case the kids need to be separated for homeschool purposes which we do pretty girl does her homeschooling here buddy man does his homeschool out in the kitchen well um sometimes yeah sometimes we set up a table in the multi-purpose room and do homeschooler and then there are a few drawers in here underneath the bed there is also storage under the bed so when we got this rig they had kept the original mattresses that were in here they were a joke they were a glorified blanket so we ended up having to get our mattresses custom-made which is really cheap it's it's not it was not bad I will say it was not a bad price to have a custom made mattress and we got them you can get them the thickness that you want you can get the right sizes they do weird shapes another thing we can put in them we do they do but anyway you can kind of see that there there are good quality foam mattress really thick and they fit perfect right behind this we found a chest of drawers that fits perfectly in this space four drawers each for the kids and I'll just switch out summer in which are closes that works out really well what is all this stuff you got here what's all this stuff over here don't tell me you were hiding it for the video lies lies look at these lies a bag full of lies right there there's a leather strap is that what are you having your hands there didn't we just see those in the other room what do we do with them hey what is all this stuff it's mostly your crap Hey trying to run a YouTube Junior so as for our sort of lifestyle outdoor living set up we've got these amazing pod rocker camping chairs that are just so comfortable and they folds up just as small as your typical camping chair and stowaway super easy these were worth every single penny you guys are a fan of chillin out by the fire this thing is awesome because you'll have to carry any firewood with you and I rigged it up with a quick connect so we can connect it directly into our RVs propane supply so I'll have to carry extra tanks with us I did the same thing for our camp chef grill which I'll show you next now this has to be the biggest lie in the industry okay everyone told me that I had to get a camp chef for my outdoor stove and grilling thing it's just it's extremely difficult to clean it doesn't pack up very tight about the only good thing about it is that I could rig it up with a quick connect to use my RVs propane supply again that's an awesome feature but aside from that I think there's probably better options out there so here's know of better options than this I am all ears I would love something that's smaller and works better and it's easier to clean so from the kids bedroom we're gonna walk up into the third bedroom the master bedroom there is some cool features of you that we added we have a place to hang jackets like a mud ring if you will and we also save this from our house save it so well and we get to still measure the kids of their birthdays so this is our command center now this RV only came with these two things right here but this is the remote control for the aftermarket inverter that was installed with the solar and this is the remote for the charge controller again installed with the solar so kind of cool we have all of our stuff right here also this RV does have a four seasons weather package on it so we also have tank warmers to prevent stuff from freezing this is our luxurious master bath you can access this from the hallway or you can access it from our bedroom all right that's it has a good shower I did add this which I thought was a pretty cool addition there was no place to put stuff in the shower so I found that on Amazon we're gonna do a toilet that's exciting news that's right huge upgrade kimono we had I'm not gonna say who broke the one that we had I'll say so we just got done going to the bathroom and I went to go flush and this whole freaking thing just broke right off that's dumb oh and this pretty thing my mom made this for us and they actually like it because I think it's pieces a bathroom a little bit since there's not too much fanciness going on and this plant has always been here we've also mentioned that we actually don't wear shoes in our rig we try to keep the inside as nice as possible and so this is our solution for storing shoes is we just have this tub that we've put a shoe organizer inside or if the weather is good we just pile the shoes on top of it that way they're right by the door won't step out and slip them on real easy we actually use the same containers for the kids outdoor toys okay it's great for keeping this stuff really organized and its toes away really easy because they're stackable they lock into each other we just stick them right inside the front door it's kind of the last thing to pack up and the first thing to unpack we also added on these awesome peel-and-stick 3m hooks for drying our towels and stuff after we go to the pool or if we've washed the rig or the truck and we just want to hang them out to dry all right come on so this is the master bedroom as you can see it's just a bed originally this was a queen-size bed and we love our king-size mattress love it it's a tough two needle and it's amazing and we had to get it in here dan rigged this up so that we could fit it there was a revealing a nightstand on the other side and we took that out and fit a king-size bed and Dan gets a kettle to the wall this is all the space we have for our clothes so I show them how nice and organized my clothes marika that crap [Applause] are just extra drawers for socks another where I think that there is space to walk here yes a window space to walk there I have to jump into bed so on our TV which our TV is pretty cool I guess we talked about that we've been we've been catching up on Star Wars and on Marvel movies yeah because we so since we did convert this to king-size bed we lost out on would have been Dan's nightstand and I do sort of have this but when you're in bed and trying to reach for this is not exactly convenient anyway so because we didn't have nightstands we found these metal hanging basically like a charging station but you're charging stuff in here and you can put your phone and your Apple watch little slot for my iPad to charge and I've got a spot for my water bottle that I made back there in the corner so got everything I need I love this thing I know it's ugly as sin but I can watch YouTube videos embed which is the only time that I have time to watch YouTube videos I was very deliberate when I converted this to a Cal King to not lose any under-bed storage so I repurpose the lifters on it so it lifts up and you get plenty of storage actually get more storage because it's a bigger bed there's more storage underneath so this little area that would have been a walk whay is now additional storage instead of building it out of plywood I built it out of these slats which flex much more lightweight because it's not solid wood going all the way across so basically with my design you actually save weight you increase storage you increase the size of your bed all at the expense of one little nightstand so I thought that was pretty fair trade so once again Betty's for the win so we chose to go with Betty's and this has been awesome dan was skeptical yeah it took a little getting used to it's basically like sleeping in a sleeping bag but it's so much easier to make the bed so this particular model of RV actually comes with an outdoor kitchen which I actually converted to be my outdoor workshop and if you guys follow my guns of guitars channel you've seen me build a lot of guitars out of this workshop it's awesome I actually have a video that you guys can check out of how I converted this from outdoor kitchen into this workshop but basically there used to be a big 50-inch TV up here that we would never use because when we're outside we want to enjoy the outdoors so we don't be watching TV that we could inside and then this portable workbench major game changer for building and stuff and then when you're all done stow it away so you might notice that unlike other full timers we chose not to paint the walls of our RV and we chose not to do very many heavy renovations renovations and the reason for that for us was we weren't really sure if this was gonna be the final rig for us we just needed something that would be an awesome transition from a house to an RV I couldn't have asked for a better situation and I mean another reason why we didn't is our rigs kind of already beautiful to begin with I mean that's something I noticed in doing this RV tour is that this thing is nice it's got a lot of really cool features stuff that I really would have actually liked to have in our actual stick some bricks home right and so I actually don't see myself I think ever going back to a traditional house ever again because this thing I know it's the first time you versus it took took me a while to adapt to this lifestyle but now that you know we've been in this rig for a while and I just absolutely love it I love the features and everything that offers plus the fact that we can pitch it up and take it to a new place and have a new view out of our front window every week a tight bonds that it's grown between our families and our relationships with God and stuff and if you haven't seen our story you definitely want to check out our story on how God called us to do this lifestyle it's definitely been stretching for me personally yeah I just don't see myself going back and we've got everything that we need you know so if you want to see some of the adventures that we've been on check out this playlist up over here and remember until next time life rocks your home rose

Channel: Rockin' and Rollin'

Views: 386,246

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Length: 31min 10sec (1870 seconds)

Published: Sun May 03 2020