cuz Hubby loves doing mods for me... ;)

My hubby groans when I start a sentence out with,"You know, I was thinking..."

because he knows that it means a modification/remodel coming on!

And my man did a few mods for me while we were parked at Larry and Carol's house.

They were just small projects that would have been done back in our hometown before we left in the fall, had our 5er not been in the shop for 3 months, but since we didn't have our rv before we left, we had to do them on the road!

The first one was to 'fix' the little girls bunks. Vaughn had built them as I had initially asked, but then I decided that I wanted them in a different area in the 'garage' of our toy hauler (he loves it when I do that!). I wanted to put them along the back wall, but our toy hauler has a 'beaver tail', which is a slight angle coming into the toy hauler off of the ramp - makes it so the ramp isn't such a steep grade when down, buy lowering the entrance height by about 6 inches.

Since the floor by the ramp which makes up the back wall, and the floor 2' into the garage were different heights, Vaughn and the boys built new legs on the girls bunks to compensate for the beaver tail - so now the girls bunks have legs that are 6 inches longer in the back than the front, but the bunks sit level on the floor. The guys also raised the bunks up off the floor so that we could store their guitars and Vaughn's range bag under the bunk beds.

The guys also hung a shelf under Daniel's bunk for me - it is a coated wire closet shelf that the keyboard fits in just perfectly - now we don't have to worry about the kids stepping on the keyboard or guitars, or them falling over when we are driving. And it is wonderful to have the floorspace open that they were previously taking up!!!

(Eli's guitar is in the picture, but it is now stored under the bed, and hid from view with the bedskirt)

AND, while we were parked, Vaughn and Eli did the mod that I had REALLY wanted...

12 people + 1 very small living room = disgustingly dirty carpet.

So, I picked out some faux wood flooring (couldn't do real because of the height needed for the slides to work correctly), and my guys spent a couple of hours ripping out the old carpet, vacuuming up sand (from all over the United States :) and dirt that was under the carpet, and putting down new flooring... (and it was really interesting to see the ways that Gulf Stream had cut corners, which had been previously hidden under the floor coverings...)

I really like the new floor - I love that it's cleaner - but I don't love that it doesn't mask the dirt for me anymore! LOL!

and it was installed just in time - a few days later Emma was sick and didn't make it all the way to the bathroom. :( We would have HAD to replace the carpet had it still been in...

Since I'm married to a carpenter, the trim still needs to be done (you know, like it's the plumber that always has the dripping faucets...), but that will have to wait till we get back home to Vaughn's trim tools.

I love the new floor! and since one remodel project usually leads to another...

Never mind,...Eli suggested that I save the next, "You know, I was thinking..."

until after this weekend, at least, so they can enjoy our next adventure without thinking about 'work'.

I guess our closet redo can wait for a few days... ;)