The Lundy 5

Even though we live and work in a small space, we can still have a professional looking office in an RV! We often do video chats and we want to put our best foot (face) forward. These backdrops simply hang from the ceiling in Allen's office, aka our living room, aka our kitchen, aka the path to the kids' rooms, aka the *everything* in a fifth wheel. Now we can work, and focus on helping others, without all the distractions. They also hang from the ceiling in my office, aka our bedroom. We used tri-fold cardboard for displays. Then we covered them with peel and stick wallpaper for the plain wall and a giant wall poster for the window view. We can also cover them with a sheet for a green screen. No background distractions, besides our goofy faces. We can't always have an office this gorgeous - but we're very grateful when we do!! Even if it's moving day, and we're parked at a rest area, we can still work from a professional office. Do you have ...

Since we're minimalists, our decorations are pretty minimal. But festive!

Since it snowed on us in Arkansas, we were definitely ready to hit the road again. We found another family who wanted to stay on Lundy Mountain, so we left them to enjoy the spot, and feed the spoiled cats. :)  We decided to head back to Texas and then keep going west! We also found a couch to try out yet another remodel. Although we keep rearranging things.  I'm not sure if we'll ever get it just right, but it was sure handy to have all this seating when we were on the road! Makes our lunch and dinner stops and our overnights so much more comfy than the table.  Jack was especially happy to return to sunny Texas and he looked like this minutes after we parked! 

Texas isn't quite as hot as Florida, but it's still no white winter wonderland (fortunately)! Santa hats and shorts, weird, but a good weird. We decorated the RV a little.  And had a small feast for Christmas Eve. 

I doubled our counter space in 30 seconds! (Well, technically two days, thanks to Amazon Prime, if you count the wait.)  Yes, UPS delivers to Lundy Mountain and, as a bonus, Jack gets a treat from the driver! Even though I do still keep our counters cleared , and we're very used to living small, there just isn't much counter space in an RV.  I've wanted to find a cutting board or something for over the stove for years, but I wasn't sure what I wanted, so I just put it off.  Thanks to the  Make Over Your Mornings course, I decided this was something I really wanted, so I put it on my (purposefully very short) to-do list. I searched, thought, measured, and finally ordered a Baker's Measuring Board from Core Bamboo. One side for cutting (that I doubt I'll use as I like my small, color-coded, flexible ones) and one side for rolling out pie crust, that has some cool measurements and conversions that will be very helpful. And I can flip it up to stand beside the s...

A blog post about completely clearing off your kitchen counter got me to thinking about ours. (She mentions, and I love, the clutter free post on Becoming Minimalist too.)  Since our home is an RV, we have pretty limited counter space AND cabinet space, so we have to really think hard about what comes in and where it belongs. While I do love my purple toaster and green blender and use my crockpot often, they don't really need to be taking up that physical AND visual space all day every day.  I love the math that refutes the argument of convenience and I much prefer having that extra space all day. PLUS I can now see out the tiny window. :)  Now, if you prefer other ways, just remember you don't have to live here. (Such mean comments on those posts. Who cares if someone's counters are wrong??)  I just wanted to show it's possible in an RV. The blender and toaster sit on a shelf that held junk, because I threw away the junk! The crockpot sits in a cubby under the ...

We decked the halls of the RV, which takes about 5 minutes. :)

I've been trying to figure out what kind of pot rack we could use on this wall in the RV, a wall mount, half round, shelf, etc. Then I realized I could just hang them on the wall!  So, my handy Allen got them all up and I love it! No more noisily digging them out from above the microwave. Then the lids were a problem. So after searching, I decided he needed to install some racks inside the door.  One option I saw was a simple wire.  So I requested that, but Allen was busy! What?!  While I still maintain that is a blue job, I did it myself. It was stupidly easy anyway.  Instead of screws or fancy hooks, I just used the hooks that we left in the door from a failed attempt at a spice rack years ago. Basically cheap plastic hooks.  I wrapped wire around them well on each side, bam. Lid holders!  Super easy DIY pot rack and lid rack, aka get the pans and lids out of the way!

In an attempt to keep up with the Joneses, or in our case the Johnsons, and have more storage space, we added some shelves to the boys' room. Boots are harder to store than flip flops! A year and a half ago, I said we probably weren't finished with shoe storage . Guess I was right.

We've loved having a real table in our kitchen/living room, but it was a little too big for the space.  And heavy!  Weight is always an issue for RVers. So we found this great little, lightweight, foldable table and some lightweight storage cubes/stools that we can move around as needed.  We can scoot it all to the side and use beanbags to watch movies or move it to the center to host card games or scoot it all to the side on moving day.  We have so much more room when we're boondocking (aka overnight camping at Walmart or rest areas).  It was such a pain to maneuver around the big table when cooking and eating.  Now we all have a place to sit and eat.  We can use half the table for work and half for TV watching.  Or move it all to the corner for a comfy seat for one (when we get a pillow).  Plus, STORAGE!  RVers can always use storage. As a bonus, my bread maker fits inside the purple cube! As another bo...

I've always hated our shiny black fridge/freezer doors.  Dark, smudgy, fingerprinty, plasticy blah.  So when Allen said the doors would come off easily, I tried to figure out how to change them to fit our brightly redecorated RV . Chalkboard paint, magnetic paint, something bright, something wooden, maybe stainless steel, or contact paper... but I had no clue, so they were still blah black.  But the other night I was thinking (as I try to do often): simplify .  Go with the black instead of over-complicating.  So my solution was a message center for the refrigerator. Just write on the fridge with neon window markers. Good grief that was easy!  And bright, happy, helpful, and most importantly, finished! Now we can leave notes, reminders, pictures, just whatever. And we can make it as bright as we'd like! No more boring blah black. Much better!  So glad I had this idea for decorating a refrigerator door.  If you try it, make sure you test that the...

We've been wanting a sign for the front of the RV for oh, over three years now.  It's just hard for us to buy any wood products, since Allen sold all of his woodworking tools to hit the road.  But alas, one of our campgrounds was right beside a flea market, and we finally just bought one.  And we love it!  Now we're like really real RVers. :)