Real life airstream restoration project
Finishing your own restoration project is a joy that just cannot be beaten. It has to be one of life’s great pleasures to take on a beautiful wreck and transform it so that it loses the ‘wreck’ and is just beautiful.
It’s my job as a stylist/art director to create and tweaking all sorts of wonderful images for people to enjoy looking at and hopefully to get inspired by. I love producing the books, styling the shoots and writing the copy.
All the stories we feature in the books are from real life …… and there there is the inevitable wondering what on earth you have taken on, we have all been there… had that horrible moment of serious doubt… struggling to find the part that you are missing or even when all the major work is completed not being quite sure just how to do up the interior.
I love seeing some-one else’s restoration project take place, and to see it in a step by step fashion, more or less from start to finish.
Laila Smith is one of our ‘my cool…’ followers. She’s a busy girl by anyones standards. Aside from the day job running jewellery and mosaic classes from her workshop on the South Coast. She has just about finished restoring and decorating a lovely 1961 Airstream Overlander.
Earlier this year she kindly emailed me with a link to her blog, documenting the process. http://airstreamintheuk.blogspot.com/
I followed it with interest. She had found our book ‘my cool caravan’ an inspiration. It has been such a joy following her progress.
She found our facebook site pretty useful as a forum for practical advice. The sourcebook on our website good too as they are genuine recommendations of places that I have used to source vintage finds and general good contacts.
But most of all, we can all enjoy looking at Laila’s pictures… what a great job they have done! The vintage airstream looks great, It has been a big project, but she is now able to take the time to sit back and enjoy that effort, and the courage that taking on any similar project requires.
For Laila and her boyfriend, a big well done from me, their airstream restoration adventure is complete. It has a new lease of life and I am genuinely happy that the book with its lovely stories and images has contributed a source of inspiration along the way.
http://www.crossstreetworkshop.co.uk/ http://www.bluebirdjewellery.co.uk/