Some work on the trailer

Yesterday while we were waiting for the hitch to be installed in the truck, we made some progress making our trailer a bit more ours...

The trailer originally came with a dark pink material that covered the curtain rods of the windows and some lighter pink fabric on some of the walls and furnishings.

Becky and I ripped out all of the pink material the same day we brought the trailer home. The curtains that remained were OK looking, but the material that covered the curtain rods did a good job of hiding the rods and hangers for the curtain. The picture to the left shows what the curtains looked like after we removed the pink boxes.

Our solution was to put some 6 inch wide strips of paneling up where the pink fabric used to be. We had no luck in finding the right shade of wood paneling, so we bought unfinished panel, stained it to match and sealed it with a few coats of semi-gloss clear coat. The result is pretty impressive. The curtain rods and hangers are now all neatly hidden from view and the wood matches the cabinets almost perfectly. I glued corner braces in the corners to strengthen the boxes. The picture shows a clamp in the corner that was holding the pieces together while the glue dried.