07-29-2014, 07:20 PM
Richard,
I hear you! The "Hollywood effect" can cut both ways, but I've walked this coach twice now and it's been immaculately cared for. We're just not huge fans of some of the materials & colors used, so that's why were considering a DIY interior update, if we end up with this coach. Our current stick house was such a disaster the first time we walked through it that my wife couldn't make it through the second room (maybe it was the old dog pool in the dining room?). But it had tremendous bones! It's taken us almost a decade, but it's a show place down to the custom Venician (sp?) plaster walls I've done throughout (think "wax on, wax off" about a zillion times) and lots of little touches.
I'm hoping the Newell will be just like that ~ adding our own style to a great design.
The big motivation on this is that my plan is for this to be a true "Four Season" coach - with summer being one of the few seasons it won't be on the road (we're too busy). But from 118F in Tucson visiting my son, to snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains we're counting on this coach to be supremely comfortable regardless of the weather outside (not that I'm planning to drive during a snow storm or anything).
I hear you! The "Hollywood effect" can cut both ways, but I've walked this coach twice now and it's been immaculately cared for. We're just not huge fans of some of the materials & colors used, so that's why were considering a DIY interior update, if we end up with this coach. Our current stick house was such a disaster the first time we walked through it that my wife couldn't make it through the second room (maybe it was the old dog pool in the dining room?). But it had tremendous bones! It's taken us almost a decade, but it's a show place down to the custom Venician (sp?) plaster walls I've done throughout (think "wax on, wax off" about a zillion times) and lots of little touches.
I'm hoping the Newell will be just like that ~ adding our own style to a great design.
The big motivation on this is that my plan is for this to be a true "Four Season" coach - with summer being one of the few seasons it won't be on the road (we're too busy). But from 118F in Tucson visiting my son, to snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains we're counting on this coach to be supremely comfortable regardless of the weather outside (not that I'm planning to drive during a snow storm or anything).
Mark of SJC