Here is my Christmas present from my husband! I was able to set up and dismantle the whole thing by myself. (I was worried, because the instructions say you need two people.)
The screen room was $139 and the rug was $59, much cheaper than the permanent screen rooms that attach to your awning.
Here is the 9x12 reversible outdoor rug I got for the floor. (It folds almost flat and weighs about 5-7 lbs.) It feels kind of plastic-y.
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The 10x10 screen room is pretty compact and fits in my basement storage. (It's that blue thing.) It weighs 44 lbs.
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I was actually able to get it back IN this bag after I dismantled it!
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This would be the step where they think you need two people. I just had to walk around in a circle and keep extending each side.
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(Though I'm sure I looked ridiculous making continuous circles around it.)
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Roof canopy goes on before fully open.
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Legs extend all the way out, then up.
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Note to self: Don't stake the poles before putting the screen around them!
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I accidentally put the screen on inside out. (Velcro holds it up inside.) Okay, now I am very confused as I see the Velcro on the correct side. Maybe they are on both sides!
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The screen room is not tall enough to be placed in front of the door to my Mini. I'll move it back farther next time.
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100 extra square feet of outdoor living space!
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Happy Holidays! I am visiting family all over Texas and will be heading West again at the end of the month.
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Here is a link to the screen room
Here is a link to the rug
I also got these sun/wind breakers
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Now that is really cool!
Nice Setup.
But after you just spent 2 hours doing it, you could have done it in 5 minutes. This is on my amazon wishlist – they make a tent like this too. A must have for beach, etc, and great price:
http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-15-Instant-Screened-Shelter/dp/B0033990PG/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1RB47Q2ZLPD06&colid=1N0K6UFGEG9BH
Happy holidays!
Don’t forget to find some way to anchor it down in case of strong winds!
Very nice! You will get the setup down to a few minutes after doing it a couple times.
Merry Christmas!
This gift will be such a nice addition to your environment, giving you added space and privacy as well. We have a similar rug and love it. We have had it for three years. Enjoy your time with your family! We are bracing for another snowstorm today. Less than three weeks before we start our vagabond adventures to southern latitudes. I CAN HARDLY WAIT!!!!
good for you tackling it on your own… amazing how resourceful we become when we don’t have that extra body around to “help” (errr and sometimes totally do for us!). It looks like a really sweet addition to your living space. The rug (even if it’s plastic-y) gives it a touch o class!
How awesome Jennifer! Nice that it’s white and matches your RV too! When I used to camp in my little 12′ T@B trailer, my PahaQue 10′ screenroom was all the difference in the world to make the little T@B actually livable– I loved it! One trick I learned was to stake down or put something heavy on one of the legs when setting up– makes it much easier to extend the “scissors” by yourself..of course, it took me a couple of months to make this simple discovery!
Enjoy your new room and happy holidays!
Cool room! Putting on an addition to the home is a little easier on the road.
Very cool. Add a beautiful scenery, sounds of nature, a good book, and a serving of your favorite beverage, you’ve got yourself the makings of an awesome evening.
It’s too bad the door is higher than the tent, so you can’t walk outside right into the screened room. I can’t think of a simple hack that would make that work. Oh well, no biggie.
I might set up some sort of a cloth “wall” that can be put up, in case I had neighbors or a scene I didn’t want to see on one side. Maybe a king-size flat sheet with velcro sewed onto the edges, or something like that.
But it’s really cool just the way it is. Nice addition.
I LOVE it!
That rocks!
You’ll find that spraying the legs with Silicone on a frequent basis will go a long ways to making set-up and take-down less of a chore. We used 8 2-liter soda bottles and a hank of parachute cord cut to length to allow the bottles to just kiss the ground. We also tied it off to the trailer at two points. Bottles were filled with water as needed (sandy soil in the desert) to help stabilize. Tie out all four corners if you expect wind — otherwise you’ll be chasing it. Enjoy, but keep a sharp eye out in the desert as all sorts of creatures appreciate the coolness of the shade and not all of them like to share
Jennifer, If you’re headed west and are in California, we’d love to see you. We will probably be in the San Diego area for several months.
What a great screen room. We have a similar pop up shade structure, but I think it would be much more useful as a screen room!
VERY jealous! if you check Derek’s blog http://www.roadsiderambling.blogspot.com we just posted the need for a ‘home addition’. We have an 18 month old and the 119 sq ft of our travel trailer isn’t quite large enough for the three of us. We were looking at a screen room that fits under the awning but yours is wayyyyyyyyy better! Enjoy!
I have bookmarked the site in my future” file. I have an Easy Up 10′x10′ tent that I had planned on taking along as a portable studio. I was concerned that the solid side walls would make it very hot and stuffy, but I see that I could buy just the screen walls! What a great possibility!
Very Cool!
Hey Jennifer, there are screen room kits you can buy that attach to most RV awnings creating the room you want. We had one on our first class C. I’ll e-mail you a picture. I see these all the time. It may be you considered this already and opted for the one you have. At any rate, the extra “room” does increase the size of your living area significantly.
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I’m on vacation. I work in higher ed, so pairing a few days’ vacation with the staff’s generous winter break gets me 16 straight days off. I’m bored, restless, overrun with thoughts of what I SHOULD be doing while I trim my nails and my cuticles, and now my nails are so short, I truly do have “man hands.”
I came back to your blog (for the record, I visit every time you post something new) because, as I sat in my RV recliner looking at my too-short nails, my un-pedicured winter feet, my ugly RV walls, and my eighties-looking oak cabinets (who decorates these things??), and I thought about the fabrics I purchased six months ago to re-do the valances and create slipcovers for the RV furniture, the very fabric that still sits in the shopping bag, I remembered that you had a video showing your RV mods that featured my favorite green on your RV walls. After viewing the video, I ended up spending the afternoon with you, although you may not have noticed I was hanging about. I read your retooled “about me” section, clicking on and reading every single link in it, enjoying every moment.
I’ve been with you through auto mechanics, jerky RV sales guys, trepidation, hungover hiking (I’ve done that, too, during my drinkin’ days, although it wasn’t exactly hiking, it was camping at Possum Kingdom Lake when the high reached 117 degrees F and I truly thought I would die from hangover dehydration and heatstroke), getting rid of excess accumulations and expensive suits and costume jewelry (me, too! But hey, I’ve still got a couple pairs of shoes tucked away somewhere), scraping the roof (ok, my RV’s damage is from giant hailstones and I have no roof scrapes only because I’m parked and will be for a long time to come), school (me, too!), meltdowns (me, too!), suicidal breakdowns (me, too!) your starting point (Corpus Christi? Not sure, but if… that’s my old hometown!), lost in the Rockies (give me time), Zen while waiting for fuel (not sure if I will ever do this one), entering the Dempster, driving the Demptser “Highway,” (yikes!), KNOWING the Dempster’s potholes, washboards, and crazy hairpin turns (it’s funny that everything looks powder blue), Tuk (maybe someday?), the journey back down the Dempster, “the cacophony of noises that race up, and down, and around” in your brain (me, too!), your sister’s appropriating the trailer you lovingly restored (oh, I can identify, I have a sister who follows me in all my realizations and endeavors but does it better, faster, harder, and with a bigger budget), and learning from that trailer that nothing is really yours (oh, CAN I identify!), which, for the record, is my favorite post on your blog as long as I’m allowed to tie it with “What I’ve Learned So Far.”
So that’s what I had to say. No pressure to respond. I’ve been meaning to tell you how much I enjoy your blog for a good while, and now I’ve done that. I hope you enjoy the holidays!
Oh, and I forgot to mention at the very beginning that the screen-room is crazy good!
This will be great for the pesky mosquitoes. I hate mosquitoes. The fun part will be the transition from the Mini into the screened room without letting any of the little buggers in with you. Now that would be fun to watch. Have a great Christmas and many happy miles in the New Year.
at under $2 a square foot you may wind up creating the next bubble market in screen estates
Nifty!
So much better than the stand-alone “flys” from the 70’s.
Merry Christmas, Jennifer and thanks so very much for creating this unique spot on the web.
Trish
Hmm very nice!
looking pretty descent and peaceful place to spend some time.
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You sound like a woman that has her self more together then you think you do. I was married for almost thirty years to a wonderful woman. She past away in 2003 and I miss her every day. She was a very strong woman that knew what she wanted out of life, much as you seem to. I know, now, that life can be very hard. There is so much that i wish i had done differently. For her and for myself. We had a good life. All thought I now wish we had done things a little differently. We were both so involved in our own things. I wish we could have spent more time involved in each other. I just really miss sitting and talking to her. I miss everything , holding, kissing and loving her, but I really, really miss talking with her. Sorry, Leigh
Hi Jennifer, I have a 2004 Airstream Interstate, and I enjoy having it! I’d love to chat more about your life on the road, please write to me ‘tomtui@gmail.com’ Blessings!
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