RV Renovation Before and After - Amazing and DIY !

hey guys you're looking at roman america and a remodeled rv then you've come to the right place hey roamers i'm jamie i'm linda and this is roaming with rosie and it's been a year and a half since we did that video and we brought rosie home and we want to show you the completed renovation it's all done let's take a look at where we started [Music] it's got wall to wall oak everywhere there's oh and if you come back here there's more oak and if you come back here we've got oak veneer and if you come back further more oak so the great thing about rosie is we've got all this storage literally tons of storage we can easily go full time in this rig which is why we bought it but really seriously all this oak it's way too much for me so back then the only thing i could think of was we've got to change the color of everything where are we going to go yeah but one of the biggest challenges was removing that old jackknife sofa i literally had to cut it out today's a big day we take out the jackknife sofa we got the new uh recliners in so we get to tear out that old ugly jackknife sofa and put in that beautiful rec pro recliner but we're not sure if we're going to be literally tearing out the jackknife so far we're going to be tearing it out because we're not removing a windshield gosh i hope we're not removing the windshield no i'll cut it apart if i have to in a bolt right here and then it's bolted to the the slide out so i'm just going to take those bolts apart and then see if i can get this thing see if there's more ways to break this thing down so i can get it out the door right there oh yeah that thing just came out all right all right there's part of it let's call it a day all right i gotta get some tools so the ugly jackknife sofa is gone and in its place are these gorgeous rec pro recliners yeah and the thing that was really neat about those ric pro recliners the way they shipped them it's kind of like a puzzle basically they shipped it out in i think it was three three boxes but it was actually six pieces so you were able to get it into the rv and assemble it once you had it all inside the rv you also removed the attached table that only sat two people and it didn't expand right and we just went and got this table set from ikea and it expands on both sides yeah it has two leafs and it actually has a drawer in it as well so you can store a little bit of stuff and the color is actually almost the same color as all the trim that we did in the coach yeah it's kind of an espresso color so it matches the valances really well i also removed that old grandma chair that you hated yeah it was kind of like mama bear's chair it was way too soft and it was really low to the ground right and it wasn't real hard to remove it because it wasn't attached at all yeah we discovered it wasn't even attached to the floor no the only thing that held it in place was how heavy it was yep we also got rid of the tv that was over the driver's side it really doesn't even make sense that it was there in the first place because there's no seating in the coach that faces that direction no all those all basically all the seating faces to the either side of the coach so nothing faces forward so what i ended up doing was building a custom tv cabinet i know there's a lot of them where they have a electric lift to raise it up i built it manually so you can actually pull it up by hand so you're not required to use any electricity so i did that and it also doubles as a workstation because i added a desk to the front part of it that folds up and down so you can use it as a workstation those were some of the major changes well what about the sink and the count the countertop that you change for the bathroom yeah actually i forgot about that that was one of the first things that i did when i started the rental was basically tearing up that countertop and building that epoxy countertop with the hammer nickel sink and we had to do that because it was leaking right the faucet itself the old faucet was leaking and i just kind of said why am i going to repair something that i'm going to replace so that that kind of made that the starting point of the whole renovation don't you think it looks really gorgeous i love it it looks like something you'd find in a new custom home right and that was the first time i'd ever done epoxy so to me i'm kind of glad it came out as well as it did it was a whole learning process and i really enjoyed it linda made sure we refinished all the cabinets in the rv yeah i don't like oak i've never liked oak it was so 80s she didn't even like it in the 80s no i didn't but we used this product cabinet transformations from rust-oleum we'd already used it in our kitchen so we had a lot of it of the stuff left over from that but it really makes it easy to refinish your own cabinets and just do a step-by-step process right you don't have to sand or anything there's a thing called a deglosser and you put that on there and that basically takes the the gloss off of the surface and then it makes it so it'll accept and make make the paint adhere a lot better yeah it's bonding bonding yeah it's like a bonding agent almost but wait that's not all there's a lot more yeah should we go inside i'm really happy with the way that the stairwell turned out it was one of those areas where you had no idea what you were gonna find until you started no that was one of those things where i had to put my thinking cap on and come up with an idea [Music] would you say the biggest task was getting rid of all the carpeting um there was a few areas that were really tough yeah i think um the good thing about the holiday rambler and why we bought a 20 year old holiday rambler was because they're built to last meaning no one ever plans to take it apart right they are built very very well the only issue is if you're somebody coming up on the back end and you want to remodel your coach it's not going to be easy yeah it depends on how much you like to listen to your husband's swear and get frustrated [Music] you have to be a little bit bendy to install these i think the flooring really tied the room together yeah it's really pretty now the plus side is it's super easy to clean and if you think about it putting carpeting in rvs is kind of gross because the outdoors is your living room so you're tracking that in and out all the time the other thing that i thought came out really well was the engine cover i like the way that ended up removing all that carpet and rebuilding on top of that and painting that out i think it really uh brought it all together and it's kind of a glamorous step up to the closet you know you've got this giant closet and this beautiful step to step on yeah it just looks 100 better that carpet was just all greasy and everything because that's where you access the engine so so we also painted all the walls in the coach a nice light gray and changed out all the ugly brass colored knobs to a satin nickel which meant that the closet doors and also the shower enclosure had to be painted because that was gold as well so i like it all matchy-matchy uh yeah and matchy-matchy meant that all the light fixtures had to be changed too because that was all gold so those are all satin nickel now as well some of them you were able to paint but most of them you had to replace yeah the ones by the recliners and the ones by the bed are replaced with new uh light fixtures but the there's this one on the ceiling and uh the one in the bathroom that i painted we discussed a lot well argued about the espresso trim color but i think you won that battle because it really makes everything pop instead of just being all bland yeah i think it uh kind of tied it all together uh the other thing that i did that linda we didn't even really talk about it i did it while she was out of town is the ship lap i did that because she likes shiplap i like shiplap as well but i thought just looking at the wall where the ship lap is just was bland and the shiplap just makes it really pop and stand out and look really nice let's go ahead and take a look at the finished renovation through the fields of our parts feelings are always keeping us close but it's strange now dreams holding us closer [Music] our dreams holding us closer [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] even when we're free it's true the difference is the same the colors always but the song is the same now [Music] oh we can see so [Music] [Music] so oh [Music] [Music] [Music] i feel really proud about how this turned out yeah it came out really nice uh it took so long because the summer months in arizona are just way too hot to work inside of an rv and we had a record-breaking year anyways for the most days over a hundred and ten yeah it was really good and we had covid yeah i had coveted for a month and linda had it for like a week and a half yeah yeah so we had all that and then we got out of town yeah but would we do it again absolutely especially now because there was a lot of trial and error with products and things that would work in an rv and i think we have that all worked out now yes we're now ready to go in the business of remodeling rvs full time no we're not we have a list in the description below of all the tools and products we use and what we recommend and for some of the links we do get a small commission but be sure that we only list products that we would use ourselves and that we would recommend and if you have any questions make sure and put them in the comments section down below finishing the rv and sharing all the steps involved have been a labor of love and we compiled all the videos that we did on each step of the process and we put them into playlists that you can find on our channel and you can support our channel in several ways make sure and subscribe and ring that bell so you can be notified each time we put out a new video and share our videos and our channel with others who you 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Channel: Roaming With Rosie

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Keywords: RV Renovation Before and After, RV Remodel, Motorhome Renovation, vintage RV Renoation, RV Flooring, RV Countertops, RV Window Coverings, RV Cabinets, RV DIY, RV Renovation Project, Holiday Rambler, Holiday Rambler Ambassador, Class A Motorhome renovation, Class A Diesel Pusher remodel, RecPro Recliners, TV Lift Cabinet, RV Waterproof Vinyl Flooring, RV Bedding, Cabinet Transformations, Rustoleum Cabinets, REcPro Coupon, Roaming With Rosie, RV Queen Sheet Set

Id: zIrZ93hKH04

Length: 13min 37sec (817 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2021