Smartening up your motorhome interior is a fine art. For vintage vehicles, or those with damaged interiors, there might be no alternative to cracking open the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint to liven things up.
The effects are really not bad if they are done with a bit of care, but too much colour, or careless application, can ruin a motorhome’s décor.
Light touch
Our 1998 ’van’s interior is just a little scuffed and dated, so we wanted to find some light-touch improvements that won’t divide opinion when the time comes for it to go to a new home.
We decided to take our lead from general interior design trends, as well as what is being done in more modern vehicles to demarcate various zones without overpowering the space.
Typically, this means contrasting cabinets for the kitchen, richer wall coverings and fabrics in the lounge, and different lighting in each zone.
We plan to tackle the cabinet doors in coming months, but our first port of call was going to be making the kitchen look a little more special.
Common to many ’vans of the era, ours is fitted with mid-tone, wood-effect cabinets throughout. Every cabinet frame and door, seat base and worktop is the same colour.
The walls are a lightly patterned neutral finish, which is fine for our tastes, but the kitchen wall was ripe for an update. This is a small area, about 0.5sq m, framed by cabinet uprights on either end. We’ve seen lots of folk online who got great results by tiling their ’van interior, so we decided to look into it.
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