Sticky bedroom window

[Pete Masterson]

Well, that's what we're doing.

The coach had _hideous_ material in the bedroom and merely a poor
color choice up front. There were 3 things to change. The "base"
colors in the coach -- browns and tans are OK. The gaudy print fabric
used as the third "color value" was rather jarring to our nerves.

1. the thing above the window that hides the lights and the AC vents.
You must look carefully and find the screws/fittings that hold it on
the wall. Then the 2 levels of 'padded boards' can be removed by
loosening the screws that hold them on from the back side. We
recovered the largest board with a neutral-colored upholstery fabric
and discarded the smaller board. This reduces the 3-tone arrangement
to a 2-tone arrangement.

2. The valance (that covers the top of the shade) had two strips of
this same ugly fabric. We recovered it in a handwoven, neutral
colored fabric that my wife had used for our home drapes. We choose
this fabric because it had a little more character than the neutral
upholstery fabric -- but we'd run out of it any way. (We bought the
fabric to redo the 'forward salon' area and hadn't really gotten
enough for the bedroom.)

3. The original window shade is a "day -night" shade that features a
pleated, translucent material behind a "roman shade" made with the
ugly OEM fabric. It's a tricky design, that works with two pull-
cords. One raises the roman shade and the other raises the pleated
shade. The shades are hooked together, so they operate in a combined
system. Upon inspection, there was no way that we could practically
disassemble this shade, so we ordered a "day/night" shade from
Tweedys. The shade we received is a bit different in design than the
original. It has two sections, a translucent pleated shade and a
solid pleated shade. They use an anchored string and you either pull
one section or both sections down depending on what amount of light
you want to let in. Personally, I prefer the design of the OEM shade,
but this one appears to be a serviceable design. I've seen similar
shades in use in some other RVs. We selected neutral/beige colors
that will blend with our other color choices.

When we're further along on the project, I'll take some photos and
make them available to the list.

Pete Masterson
'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
El Sobrante CA
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On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Curt Sprenger wrote:

> Thanks, Pete.
>
> I was thinking you were fiddling with window coverings. Something
> on my
> to-do-list is the window coverings. I'd like to do away with the
> original drapes. Anyone taken on this project?



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