And Still More Woykin 'n Practicin'

Well...

We been talking about it; we been planning for it; we been driving around with the materials for it; and since we were due to be leaving, we when for it...

Remember this from last time? 

The dining booth

I mentioned we had big plans for it. Actually, we had smaller big plans for it, which consisted of recovering the cushions and putting new fabric on the trim. We could have done that.... BUT NOOOOOOO! NOT US! That would be too easy! 

Living in our HOW means doing a lot of sideways walking and or scooting, and all that sidewaysness is really hard on our knees. Since we had replaced the sofa in the lounge with Lay-Z-Boys, the room had gotten kind of narrow when the recliners were, ... well, reclined, and walking past the recliner's footrests required walking sideways. Getting in and out of the dining booth - sideways; getting from the foot to the head of the bed - you guessed it - sideways. Then there is the biggie - climbing in and out of the passenger seat workspace. That required moving sideways AND getting around the doghouse (big hump that covers the engine).

So we tore the dining booth out!

We figured five days tops. One to tear it out, two to frame it out, and two to finish the space. Did I mention the booth is built in?  And it has electric and ductwork running through it? 

It turned to be more like a week for the demolition and framing before we could start the finish work. We had a few false starts, and a few more do-overs, but after 10 days we had the structure completed and ready for the trim work.

The new space with the paneling in place and the electrical fixtures and heat vents in place

Up until this point in the project, we had been able to reuse the materials and hardware from the original booth and stuff we had laying around, so we didn't have to get too many supplies. But now we were down to the sub-flooring and we really didn't know what we wanted to do about that. At some point down the road we need to replace some worn out carpet, so we didn't want to sink much into a temporary flooring solution.

We spent an entire day looking at possible solutions when we ran across a carpet remnant that would do the job and only cost twenty bucks. After some cutting and molding we had our new space all ready. Just a little spackling and repainting on the walls and it'll be peachy.

Last thing we did was assemble and install the table we'd been driving around with all year.

So, now we have a large table that we can both sit at, side by side, just like 2 P's in a pod, lookin' out the widow while we eat, work or whatever.

Oh yeah, we still need chairs....