5 Ways to Make Your RV Feel Like Home
Erin MeredithDescription
Your house on wheels can feel as warm and personal as any stationary place you call home when you’re not traveling. Just because you’re living in a vehicle doesn’t mean it needs to feel like a vehicle! To help you make your RV feel more like home, Erin Meredith introduces several tips for adding color, comfort, and personal touches that bring your RV interior to life.
Here are Erin’s top five tips for a homier RV:
1. Add paint wherever you can. If you have a vanity, a slide room, or maybe even a large bedroom wall that still has its stock factory coloring, spice it up with a vibrant pop!
2. Throw down accent rugs. Small soft rugs are the perfect way to break up open floor spaces and warm up or lighten a room. Cooling in the summer and warming in the winter. Just be sure not to cover furnace vents!
3. Hang pictures and artwork. Erin likes to keep her family’s space updated with recent pictures from their favorite trips. She hung a wire along one wall and clipped on photographs. You can also find unique personal wall hangings such as travel maps and paintings.
4. Remove bulky window treatments. Get rid of those large blinds and drapes that limit the amount of sunlight that reaches your living areas. Replace them with light pull-down shades and sewn curtains that allow your RV interior to burst with sun!
5. Upgrade your furniture. Reconsider the cumbersome stock furniture that fills your living areas. If you’ve had a pull-out or storage couch that doesn’t get used, maybe replace it with accent chairs, a small dinette, or a kitchen island.
These are just a handful of things you can do to your RV’s interior to help open it up, make it personal, and fill it with color and light. Get creative, be brave, and do what brings you joy!
Hi, I'm Erin with RV Repair Club. And today I'm gonna share with you five things that you can do to your RV to make it feel more like a home. The first thing that you can do to your RV to make it feel more like a home is to add some paint. Painting as a huge and scary undertaking, but it's so doable within your RV. If you don't plan to paint the entire inside of your RV find one small space within your RV that you do wanna paint, make it a slide, a vanity, a room in your RV. Take that space and paint it. Adding paint, whether it's color or white to lighten it up can really give your entire RV a new feel. Adding wallpaper to your space is so simple. You can pick a peel and stick wallpaper at most of your local stores, or there's so many wonderful resources online to find wallpaper. You can find patterns and colors and really change your entire look of your space. The second thing that you can do to your RV to make it feel more like a home is to throw some rubs on the floor. Rugs really warm up a space. We have rubs in every room of our RV and our kids love laying on them. It's their favorite spot to just lay and play. It also keeps the floor really cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Rugs are great because you can really pick and choose your style and what you like to really bring your space together to make it feel like your own home. The third thing you can do to your RV is hang pictures. Pictures are a great way to remember places that you've been. We traveled for a full year with our kids. And so hanging pictures in our RV really reminds us of where we've been and what we've done. Now how do you find enough wall space in your RV for all of the pictures? What we have found useful is by hanging a wire with little clips and this wire is a wire that you can get to put on the back of a picture. And I just screwed into the wall and added some clips to it and I just swap out the pictures regularly. And so it's a really great way to remember where we've been and what we've done. Now, one of the most important pieces in our home is a map. And this map shows of all the places that we've traveled over that year and until now. So we love adding pins to this map. We have a large wall space in our living room and that is the biggest piece in our home is this map that we've hung up. So find pieces that are important and meaningful to you and don't be afraid to hang them up in your home. Little nails in your walls will actually hold things. I also encourage you not to hang picture frames with glass because if you travel, those will fall off and shatter. So I will often take the glass out of the frame and just use the frame. And if you don't wanna take the glass out, just remember to take the picture off the wall before you travel. Lay it on your bed and then hang it back when you get to your next destination. The fourth thing that you can do to your RV to make it feel more like a home are to take those big window coverings down and let the light in. You can go to your local hardware store give them the measurements of all of your windows and add some simple pull-down shades. If you're really handy and can sow, then sow some curtains to hang over those windows. You don't need those big, large shades over every window. You'll be amazed how much light comes into your home once you take those down. The fifth and final thing you can do to your RV to make it feel more like a home is to add some furniture. Now you're probably wondering, "How do I add furniture there's no space?" Don't be afraid to take out that large sleeper sofa that you may have never used to add a couch that has storage. A couch that's comfortable and your colors throw some pillows on there make it really your own. You can also take out that dinette, take that entire dinette out and add a table and chairs. Really give that space a feeling of home. We've also added an island to our RV to give us more counter space. So I hope that these things encourage you to really create a space that's your own. And don't be afraid to dive in there and change things.
We would like to hang some things on our walls but are worried about what length nails or screws to use so that we don't pierce any wires or end up going all the way through the wall. I have heard mixed reviews about how well Command strips work. What do you suggest?
I am impressed with your couch and storage conversion. I would like to do this in the rear of my rv. Do you have plans for the box and for the cushion?
How do you secure loose furniture such as tables & chairs? What impact can RV personalizing have on resale value? How do you get kids or light sensitive adults to sleep with minima; window coverings or minimize heat in your unit with sun beaming in?