My VINTAGE AIRSTREAM TRAILER

An Airstream

was listed on Craig's list years and years ago.  I just happened to see the add and called.  It was still available for sale ( it was long before they became so popular) so I loaded up the old Burbanitor with supplies for a few days and made the long, one way trip to pick it up.  I had been looking for one......to have at the farm.  My kids would spend the summers in it, giving them a place to sleep instead of on the hard, cement floor of the living room in our little one bedroom house.

I have fond memories of  silver sided classic Airstream's.  As a kid there was one abandoned near the old turkey sheds that were on the outskirts of town.  We farmed the land all around it and oft times my younger sister and I would go inside on hot sunny afternoons to escape the blistering sun while we waited to change the water in the fields. 

I can still smell the mice and rodents that occupied it, but it offered shelter on a hot day so we didn't mind too much.  

WELCOME TO MY CLASSIC VINTAGE AIRSTREAM

furnished with odd bits and treasures

 gathered over the years

a heavy, solid, ceramic vintage owl lamp serves as a door stop

 COME ON IN.........

  To the right is a comfy chair 

old table cloths and vintage curtains wrap around covering the windows

on the far side of the bed

a small magazine rack covered with an old velvet skirt sits between the bed and the couch

I purchased this vintage lamp for just a couple of dollars at a thrift store years ago

the old couch is covered with a blanket and a beautiful, fringed, tapestry

a small black fridge sits atop of an antique drop leaf table

just lift up the side for a place to eat

the kitchen is to the left

it has orange counter tops

down the hallway, behind the chair, to your left is a couch that makes into a bed 

the old bathroom needs to be remodeled

it is not in working order, for now we just use the 

"outdoor bathroom"

GLAMPING/ OUTDOOR BATH

A cozy place to stay when working on my little organic vegetable farm.


Click here to see my little 1960
Vintage Camp Trailer

GLAMPING

Well, what do you do when you rent out "the little red house"?   You move Rosie,  my little vintage camp trailer, into a secluded spot on the farm  and set up camp.  Only one problem, she is not self contained.   I have always wanted an outdoor bath, and have been collecting items for it for years.  I had  big plans of a quirky building to house the facilities, and an attached sun room to draw in the heat with hoses or pipe in the roof to collect  hot water.  But when necessity calls you put something up quick.  So it was off to the lumber pile and a few hours of work and this is my dream come true........well, maybe not quite what I had in mind, but it will work dandy.

moved  ROSIE into the trees
(see an earlier post-- Rosie gets a face lift--- of her recent remodel)

made a table out of an old slat door

an old dining hutch filled with dishes, utensils and bowls

and an umbrella make a fine kitchen

Rounded up what lumber we could find,

big grow boxes placed next to each other formed the foundation,

and the port-a-potty used 17 years ago when we first lived on the farm.... in a tent,

thick gold draperies from the thrift store

a window

a wooden shelf

and hauled the claw foot tub I have kept for just such an occasion.

WA-LA

Gathered up the old glass decanters I have found over the years.

I'll make some beautifully colored bath salts, bubble bath, and bath oils

to fill them with.

Yes, necessity is sometimes the best reason

this will certainly do