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The changes

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Here are some pictures of the changes we've made to the trailer: The speckled walls needed paint.  We used paint and primer all on one. Everything needed 2 layers to get good coverage. The bedroom slide area got painted as well.  Here are the before and after pictures: The shower in it’s original brass color. The shower after Joe “aged” it with a 120 grit foam pad sander and thinned down black paint with mineral spirits. He brushed it on with a coarse paint brush. The bathroom walls when we started painting them white to lighten up the room with the goal of a barn look. My friend had some older fence wood that we repurposed by white washing it and then adding a brushed on splash of accent colors Before we removed the old sink with faucet and painted the bathroom cabinets white: The new bathroom sink: The bathroom floors used to have beige carpet. We removed it and then Joe repurposed some old bar

The elimination process

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 3 Estate sales...  ...and we still had stuff  The house a few days before we moved out. What was left and couldn't get sold went the Goodwill. ........................................ And what a long process this was. We started selling things around Christmas time last year. 8 months prior to our grand move in or should I say move out. Depends how you see it.  We'd sell our Christmas decor before Christmas, Easter decor before Easter..., well you get the idea. Each holiday we ended up having no decorations, because in order to fit into our tiny home we had to shed a lot of stuff! And the best time to sell holiday decor is most certainly BEFORE the said holiday. While Joe had his work cut out for him doing most of the harder physical labor on the trailer and slaving away, I was in charge of the online selling job. Most of our "larger items" I would sell on local sites , such as Facebook Marketplace,  OfferUp and Letgo. I even ended up