Gallery update with a few new photos. Go see the gallery.

We’ve completed staining, primed and gotten the first coat of paint on. Unfortunately it got too cool yesterday to put on the second coat of paint or put poly on the stained parts. So we built a mock up of the bed box (or at least the top anyway).

Hopefully we can warm the barn up enough to do the final coat of exterior paint next weekend. Then I can start on the door, windows and window cover. After that it’s the bed box that gets built.

Looks like we’ll make Thanksgiving weekend to at least spend the night in it. Granted it will be in the barn where we’ll be building it since the Vardo is not on wheels yet, but it’ll still be cool!

We also bought the Reflectix insulation on Sunday since it was on sale at nearly 50% off. Now we need to decide on the inside cloth as well so we can pick the inside paint color so that it plays off of that.

More soon

The photos are out of order. When I get some time I’ll put them in order.

A mix of images. We didn’t get any of the regular glue blocks but we did get a couple of the embossed one above the door on the inside.

All the glue blocks and spars are in place, screwed and glued. Next week it’s on to the vertical bows.

(Not Ours!)

Some *really* cool ideas for a bigger one, although Dayna wants a Reading Wagon (on modern running gear of course).

Got some more done this weekend. Sorry for the crappy cellphone images!

It was driving me nuts in some ways that we sold our teardrop to P&P so I was looking for something to do that wouldn’t take a lot of time, was easily built (and hence easy on my back) and unique.

While researching my dad’s side of the family a few weeks back I stumbled (once again) across the families original name on a site about Romnichels (gypsies). Hmm, serendipity?

The Gypsy Vardo is the project! Timothy Lemke (and crew) have put together a great book and plan set to build one.

More soon!