Choosing a stain for the ceiling cladding was so h

Choosing a stain for the ceiling cladding was so hard! After having a white ceiling for so long and then going to wood, we we're unsure what to go for. Did we just put a clear varnish over it, go for a medium shade or go super dark?

After buying a tin of varnish off the shelf which turned out a weird greeny yellow colour, we then bought 3 tester pots of varnish from Valspar (@bandq_uk) and settled for the middle shade.

We still weren't too sure as we were putting it up and thought, worst case scenario we can just paint it white. What do you think? Which colour would you go for? Swipe to see the choices.

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The carpet is GONE! 🎉 I can't believe i finally

The carpet is GONE! 🎉 I can't believe i finally convinced Shane to get rid of the carpet (he wasn't a fan of it either, but just didn't want the extra work of trying to level out the walls and cover them in something else when it was basically a finished van, but i wore him down in the end 😂

We started converting this van 4yrs ago, back when #vanlife wasn't really a thing and there weren't many van conversion accounts on here. So my source of inspiration was coach built beige motorhome looking campervans. Shane tried to convince me away from it, but i wasn't convinced... fast forward about a year when everyone had their lovely white interiors and nice decor and we were stuck with beige carpet.

It wasn't all bad though, it felt really cosy in the evenings and it gave our van a different look to everyone else's, but it's always irritated me, so we decided to finally swap it out for white cladding!

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We wanted to wait and do a 'big reveal' of the cha

We wanted to wait and do a 'big reveal' of the changes we made to the van, but we thought the changes would take a long weekend to do. Well here we are maybe 3 weeks later and we're still not finished (though we're a lot further on than in this picture - we'll share step by step what we've done so far).

I don't know why we thought we'd have it all done in a weekend... it's taken us 4yrs to get to the stage we're at 😂

To be honest, we were ready to go with one of the major changes, then decided that while we were at it, we might aswell change out the ceiling too. So that caused a huge delay.

After we had the leak in the rooflight, although Shane did an amazing job of patching it up and re-gluing the fabric, the temperature changes made it all move and it ended up a big lumpy mess. So here it is all stripped back and ready to be cladded! We also added in an extra light and moved another so we have one at the sliding door and one more central over the kitchen area which is so much better than before!

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Ready for the work to start! Hopefully we'll be fi

Ready for the work to start! Hopefully we'll be finished with the major work this weekend 🤞 and then all we will have to do is finish the cupboard doors we took off to re-do last year. I can't wait to share it with you!

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We had a leak! Back in the summer, Shane kept smel

We had a leak! Back in the summer, Shane kept smelling feint damp smells near the cab. Sometimes you could smell it, sometimes not, so we just forgot about it. Over Christmas, i popped in to the van to grab out all the duvets and sheets to give them all a wash and found the duvet cover covered in damp mould 😭

We peeled back the ceiling fabric and found SO much damp wood. It smelled horrendous. So Shane got to work cutting the wood + insulation out to try dry it out and find the leak. We couldn't find it anywhere, so we decided to seal the roof with some resin my dad uses for fixing commercial building roof leaks. We thought all was good, until it started leaking again. So we ended up taking the entire roof light out, couldn't figure out where it was coming from at all, so put it all back together again and miraculously the leak was fixed 🤷‍♀️

It's so annoying when things like that happen. It's been in there for 3 years perfectly fine and then suddenly we had to remove half of the ceiling 😳 have you had anything like that happen in your van?

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Lets get caught up! Over the Christmas break, we d

Lets get caught up! Over the Christmas break, we decided to upgrade our gas tank to an underslung one instead of the 6kg bottle we had under our kitchen counter. Because it fuelled our propex heater, cooker and fridge, the 6kg wasn't lasting us very long during the winter months.

If you followed us back in winter 2019, you'll know that we ran out of gas on our roadtrip in Spain (it didn't help that we cooked a Christmas dinner for 2+ hrs and then forgot to turn the oven off until an hour later), so since then Shane has been very conservative with the amount of gas we use, which meant i was rarely allowed to turn the heater on 😂 i mean, i understand his point - i like to be nice and toasty and I'd have it on 24/7 while parked up if i was allowed to hahah!

So, we decided to swap out the refillable bottle for a larger underslung tank instead. We love to do everything the hard way - this is our 3rd gas tank (we swapped from Calor to refillable lpg and now to this) and obviously installing it when the van was basically complete meant we had to take up the floor and cut sections out to screw the bolts in. It's secured though, but we still have to hook it all up but I'm excited to see how long this lasts us now and finally be allowed to have the heater on again 😂

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We've got a 4 day weekend to work on the van and w

We've got a 4 day weekend to work on the van and we're crossing everything that it will be finished by the end of it because in 2 weeks we'll be off on a weekend adventure. I can't wait to share what we've been doing - it's pretty exciting (for me at least)! 😂

What are your plans for this weekend?

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Happy daylight savings day 😂 who else is lookin

Happy daylight savings day 😂 who else is looking forward to the mini heatwave we're expecting over the next couple days?! Sadly we've taken the van back to storage today for the week, but we'll be getting our pizza oven out for sure! Oh, and only 2 more weeks till freedom! Who's excited?!

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Can't wait to be exploring lighthouses again! This

Can't wait to be exploring lighthouses again! This one was a mission to get to down a very long single file road which basically turned to sand halfway down it. I was getting worried we'd either come across another car or get stuck in the sand. Shane was worried we'd taken a wrong turn and wasn't supposed to be going down there 😂 it all worked out ok in the end and for once, we actually ended up where we were supposed to be haha! A little walk through the dunes later and this popped out!

Where's your favourite lighthouse in the UK? It's my dream to tick off as many as i can!

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