Parents are a wonderful thing especially those who have highly developed DIY and upholstery skills and who like a project so a couple of months ago we set mine a challenge with my Dad making some new internal wooden panels for our new rock and roll style bed (with foam ordered and cut to measure from Foam for Comfort) and my mum being in charge of re-covering the foam in a fabric of our choice – after many debates we settled on dark blue denim with cream piping around the edge.  Devastatingly my Dad passed away recently so although he had made a great start on the panels it will be up to Rich to complete the job but it’s nice to have some of Dads amazing handy work inside Bertha – when my Dad made stuff it really was built to last so I don’t think there will be any need to replace these again during Bertha’s lifetime and we will have a visible memory of my Dad and his many talents wherever we roam in Bertha.

The fabric seat coverings are coming along really well although my mum informed me that we hadn’t bought anywhere near enough denim so she has been on a mission to buy some more – oops! We promise we did try to measure but it may have ended up being a bit of a guesstimate.  Photos of the progress will be added soon.

We are also really looking forward to having new curtains as soon as we’ve sourced some fabric so this will be another winter job to complete whilst Bertha is in hibernation.  She’ll be a new woman by next spring!

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