Dudes! We are overhauling a 1972 Bell Travel Trailer! Follow the entire series from the beginning here!
I am a firm believer that most things in life (especially projects!!) will cost you 1 of 2 things. Time or money. If you dont have money, then you put time in. If you dont have time then you pay with money. Looking at the project list for the Nugget there were a few things that I knew I didnt have the time/skills/equipment for. Most everything could be DIYed, but there were a few things that I left to the pros.
First thing on the list was powder coating the stove top. The green, while it is a great color, just wasnt what I was going for. It was just so heavy.
I have been itching to use cantaloupe somewhere and this just seemed like the best place. Now. Let me be super clear on this. You CAN DIY a new stove top color. ish. Rustoleum makes high heat spray paint that will absolutely work in this situation. The colors are limited but they do have white and a really good copper (this was my backup plan).
Talking to the powder coater on the phone I was feeling extremely confident that I would be able to find the color that I wanted. (“We have all of the colors!”) When I went in I was a lot less confident. Just a heads up, all of the colors are extremely saturated, light colors just dont really exist unless you custom match them ($$$$) so I picked the lightest yellow-y orange that they had (I wanted it to be more orange, but I left pretty convinced that it was just going to be yellow, like a yield sign. Fun.)
I was pleasantly suprised when I picked it up and it was the perfect shade of cantaloupe. When I put it in (with the old green tile) it was horrifying. But the problem wasnt the stove, it was the tile. Now that the tile is white I LOVE it. It has this charmingness that just makes the entire space.
We also had them powdercoat the new step. It was an awesome shade of boring and we painted it white. Which in and of itself isnt the most fun color, but it looks SO good with the outside paint job. Total cost for powder coating was $79.00
The second thing that we hired out was the cushion reupholstery. It was just not something that I could convince myself to do. Sewing box cushions with thick vinyl and leather would have done me and my sewing machine in.
I found the perfect shade of pink naugahyde from diyupholsterysupply.com.(they were a dream to work with!!) and had it piped with couch leather. (Because no Vintage Revivals project would be complete without it.)
So was it worth it? Absolutely on both accounts.
