Pictures

Who are these people? Oh yeah, this is our dress-up look, pretty similar to how we looked in our work clothes. How will we look six months into retirement?

       

Now this is one very cool truck and travel trailer combo!

Inside our CCD 25, standing at the sofa and looking aft. Why, from the living room you can see four other rooms. See them?

Standing in the kitchen you can see the living room and a little of the dining room.

We added a catalytic heater for dry-camping heat without any battery use. It costs some propane plus fresh air coming in through one window open 1" and leaving out through one roof vent open 1" at trailer's other end. This ventilation is very important because the heater is otherwise non-vented. We've experimented and enjoy the warm glow. The second picture shows the copper piping under the cabinet to feed the catalytic heater.


     

We added a drawer using space not utilized by the factory design for our kitchen. We removed the full-width false drawer front, sliced it into a drawer front on the left and a false front on the right. Made a drawer and installed drawer pulls matching the ones throughout the trailer. Inexpensive, attractive, and very functional.

     

We installed a breadboard and slide channels under the new drawer in space not used by the next lower drawer and not tall enough to add another drawer. We attached a knife rack magnet across the plywood. This is still a work in progress. We plan to finish the "breadboard" surface and edges more in keeping with the interior decor.

The cabinet door above the refrigerator lacked means for staying open and prevented us from using both hands to place into or remove something from the cabinet. We added a stainless steel coil spring hatch stay from West Marine. It keeps the cabinet open, releases very easily, and looks really nice.

We were surprised by the plainness of the window treatments in our otherwise very sleek Airstream. The manufacturer installed white vinyl roller shades for each window. We shopped other shades, metallic levolor blinds, and day-night shades as on the Classic line of Airstreams. At a show recently we saw a treatment new to Airstream trailers, OceanAir cassette blinds. These are very nice-looking roller shades contained in a metallic tube with grey end caps and mounts. We tried without success to find these online and made unanswered inquiries to yacht outfitters who listed OceanAir hatch shades on their websites.

The International CCD line arrives furnished with a bright white bedspread of mediocre quality and fit. The corner bed is inherently more difficult to make than one you can walk around. Deb designed and sewed a very comfortable and attractive bedroll consisting of two high quality sheets, (and a spare set) a fleece blanket and a comforter. The sheets are sewn together at the bottom, and they velcro in between the comforter and the thinner fleece blanket. We can choose whichever top cover we want depending upon the expected overnight low temperature. We wanted our bed to look good when we roll the bedding up. The originally furnished quilted bedspread is very difficult to smooth and arrange after making up the bed. Deb created this mattress cover in Sunbrella fabric matching the cushions on the living room sofa.

     

We wanted a comfortable footstool to provide storage as well as an additional seat in the living room. We designed this footstool for our comfort when we want to put up our feet. It holds our t.v. and has additional space too. Rubber feet keep it from sliding on the trailer's floor accidentally (like while driving) and a hinged lid make it easy to open and close to access the t.v. We covered the footstool in Sunbrella fabrics matching the adjacent sofa pattern.