I need to do something different. Between girls camp and worrying about my boy, I feel drained. The only fragile thread keeping me together is focusing on this little turquoise trailer. I know that my family thinks that I'm obsessed. But, at this point, when my mind wanders, I think of how much I miss him and so it is best to keep my mind occupied with something productive.
Well, enough of that depressing stuff. Let's talk banquette seating! First thing...Yikes! Do you know how much they want for newly vintage vinyl banquette seating? Let's just say it costs more than I paid for the trailer. Stupid. Besides, have you ever sat on vinyl for more than 5 minutes? Even though I am old, I can still remember how miserable it was to sit in the family car with my bare legs stuck to the vinyl. Does that bring back any memories? I remember having heat rash on the back of my legs for most of the summers of my youth. And, honestly, nobody wants to see heat rash on the back of a 46 year old womans legs. Amiright? So, cloth it is. Mostly because it is cheap and easy - two characteristics that I love in a project. And I knew exactly what I wanted to use...the turquoise chevron cotton duck from Hobby Lobby, of course!
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| these are the "before" cushions |
Elizabeth helped me. She says that she isn't crafty and doesn't like the trailer, but she really is and really does. She just might not know it yet.
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| the "after" cushions |
I added a nice new thick layer of batting before I wrapped and stapled the fabric.
For the rear bench, I wanted something white and clean looking. Chevron can get a little overwhelming in large doses. I had an old matlasse bedspread that I have been saving for...something. It had seen better days but it was intact and had a nice scalloped edge that I wanted to incorporate. Yay for scallops!
I added a pendant light from Home Depot with an Edison bulb over the banquette. I thought briefly about doing a chandelier but I knew that I was going to meet resistance from the hubsters over that one.
Now for the table...I wanted to do something fun and vintage travely. When I was a kid, the only decent cereal my mother would buy was Honeycomb. The other non-decent cereal that she would buy was puffed rice. I could only tolerate that if I dumped a half cup of sugar on top of it which totally negates the purpose of the healthiness of which she was trying to force upon her children. She really wanted us to eat Cream of Wheat like my dad (who had it every-and I mean every- morning of his adult life). Cream of Wheat was ok but, again, needed some brown sugar to make it tolerable. I still don't like Cream of Wheat but I do LOVE oatmeal, mostly because it was such a rare treat growing up. How messed up is it that oatmeal was a rare treat? My mother was, and still is, kinda weird about healthiness and natural remedies. She would have totally been burned at the stake for being a witch if she was born 300 years prior.
Anyway, so back to the Honeycomb. Back in the early 1970's, Honeycomb would put little state license plates in the Honeycomb box. It was every kids obsession to find all of the states plates. Of course, it would never happen, so I was forced to send in my little hard earned money to Honeycomb in exchange for all 50 states mini license plates. My mother being the pack rat that she is - the only thing that she has ever cleaned out was my brothers baseball card collection...which contained a Babe Ruth rookie card, unfortunately - held on to my mini license plates. She gave them to me a few years ago and I thought "what the heck am I going to do with these?' So, in thinking of my table (which I really didn't want to damage) I thought LICENSE PLATES!
Elizabeth and her friend, Hilary, double-sided taped them down and we covered the whole table with plexiglass. We drilled holes in each corner of both the table and the plexiglass to hold everything down. Note: the plexiglass at Lowes is less fragile, has some give to it and is less likely to shatter. Have them cut it in the store. Place painters tape over the area that you want to drill and drill with a really sharp bit. We bought the plexiglass from Home Depot and when we tried to drill it, it shattered. It was soooo fragile and rigid.
Pretty Cute, Huh?
I added a pendant light from Home Depot with an Edison bulb over the banquette. I thought briefly about doing a chandelier but I knew that I was going to meet resistance from the hubsters over that one.
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| I am going to pain the goldish part turquoise |
Now for the table...I wanted to do something fun and vintage travely. When I was a kid, the only decent cereal my mother would buy was Honeycomb. The other non-decent cereal that she would buy was puffed rice. I could only tolerate that if I dumped a half cup of sugar on top of it which totally negates the purpose of the healthiness of which she was trying to force upon her children. She really wanted us to eat Cream of Wheat like my dad (who had it every-and I mean every- morning of his adult life). Cream of Wheat was ok but, again, needed some brown sugar to make it tolerable. I still don't like Cream of Wheat but I do LOVE oatmeal, mostly because it was such a rare treat growing up. How messed up is it that oatmeal was a rare treat? My mother was, and still is, kinda weird about healthiness and natural remedies. She would have totally been burned at the stake for being a witch if she was born 300 years prior.
Anyway, so back to the Honeycomb. Back in the early 1970's, Honeycomb would put little state license plates in the Honeycomb box. It was every kids obsession to find all of the states plates. Of course, it would never happen, so I was forced to send in my little hard earned money to Honeycomb in exchange for all 50 states mini license plates. My mother being the pack rat that she is - the only thing that she has ever cleaned out was my brothers baseball card collection...which contained a Babe Ruth rookie card, unfortunately - held on to my mini license plates. She gave them to me a few years ago and I thought "what the heck am I going to do with these?' So, in thinking of my table (which I really didn't want to damage) I thought LICENSE PLATES!
Elizabeth and her friend, Hilary, double-sided taped them down and we covered the whole table with plexiglass. We drilled holes in each corner of both the table and the plexiglass to hold everything down. Note: the plexiglass at Lowes is less fragile, has some give to it and is less likely to shatter. Have them cut it in the store. Place painters tape over the area that you want to drill and drill with a really sharp bit. We bought the plexiglass from Home Depot and when we tried to drill it, it shattered. It was soooo fragile and rigid.
Pretty Cute, Huh?
