Renovation on Beatrice My Vintage Camper Is Finished!

Last year when I began looking for she shed ideas, and vintage camper interiors did I ever think my dream would come true.

Yet almost a year later as I write this post, I am sitting in my very own she shed, glamper, vintage camper, or whatever you want to call it. I just call her Beatrice.

Our camper renovation is complete! I couldn’t be more pleased with how she turned out. She turned out just as I envisioned. I feel that she is a reflection of my style and I now have a home for many of the things that I love.

Many of you, my dear readers, have followed along and I have heard so many wonderful things from everyone.  I have to tell you that Beatrice has inspired me to take this blog in a somewhat new direction. I can’t share all the details yet (I still don’t know myself). I have been struggling to find my voice in among a sea of travel bloggers the last few months. I have absolutely loved sharing this journey and based on my top blog posts, my readers have too. I want Beatrice to play a major role going forward. Anyway, I will be doing much soul searching about this.

Now YOU can share my Beatrice renovation story with the children in your life! Or even for yourself.

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Check out my tour video. I apologize for the portrait mode. Video rookie 🙂

The last thing we needed to do with Beatrice was polishing and resealing the windows, which I was not looking forward to. She is now parked in her permanent place in the backyard after getting the outside painting finished and her decal applied. We do have some minor landscaping to do, but for now I am so happy to be able to work in her.  Oh, and I would love to get an awning for her, but that may wait for a bit.

Back to the windows. Yesterday we took one out. I had ordered this California Custom deoxidizer and polish from Amazon. I had heard good things and read the positive reviews.  Giving a few other products a try on the door frame and not getting the results I wanted, I wanted to try these products.

Well, call me crazy, but these products worked great! First we removed the window. We also put in new screws when we reinstalled it.

You first apply the oxidizer and let dry. It will turn the aluminum almost white, but this is a good thing. You work in a small section. Now my aluminum was pretty ugly looking and the rust around the screw holes was bad. It took little effort to remove that rust! After that dries, you apply a small amount of the purple polish to a terry cloth rag and rub lightly until you can see the metal shine. Your rag will be black. It takes minimal elbow grease! Work in small sections. Then go back with a clean terry cloth towel and buff. I was amazed! I can highly recommend these products. I typically do not do product reviews, but since I used this on Beatrice and had amazing results, I could not keep it to myself! Well worth the money.

You can buy them here

So I want to share a few pictures that I snapped yesterday.

Update:

We also added a Sew  Country Awning onto Beatrice!  I love how the black and white looks don’t you? If you are interested in a Sew Country awning or any others, I purchased mine through Etsy.

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Lori

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