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Mobile Home Reno

Mobile Home Repair Guide – What to look for in a used mobile home

September 3, 2020 By Elise New 1 Comment This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

mobile home repair guide

Are you thinking about buying a used mobile home? This mobile home repair guide will help you in the process! Back at the beginning for 2017, we bought a 40 year old mobile home and moved it out onto our land. Funny thing: it cost us nearly three time what we paid for it to get it moved and set Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Mobile Home Reno

Our Mobile Home Remodel – All in One Place

March 25, 2019 By Elise New 5 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

our mobile home remodel - the whole story all in one place.

Interested in learning about our mobile home remodel, or how to renovate your own? This is our story - all in one place. A couple years ago, we bought a mobile home off an advertisement on Facebook.  The ad said “livable mobile home, new land owners need it moved. Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Mobile Home Reno

Mobile Home Repair – Two Year Update

January 11, 2019 By Elise New 95 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

Two years ago, we bought an old, ramshackle mobile home, and it was both one of the worst, and one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. Repairing a mobile home isn’t as easy as it may seem at first glance - they’re not like stick-built houses. Mobile homes have their own standards of measurement Keep Reading

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Our DIY Septic System Install

July 26, 2018 By Elise New 4 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

digging pit with a backhoe

One of the things I’ve been asked about the most during our mobile home remodel is, what about the septic system? That’s a toughie. Gabe has always been fascinated with composting toilets ever since I've known him, so I (after much deliberation) conceded that this might be the time to give them a Keep Reading

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How We Got All Our Kitchen Appliances For $400

January 18, 2018 By Elise New 2 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

When we bought our 40 year old mobile home back in last January (2017), I don’t think we really knew what we were getting into. I mean, there’s a difference between knowing, and knowing, right? And it ended up costing us more to renovate than we were hoping when we started doing things like Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Mobile Home Reno, Save Money, ways to save money

We Finally Moved Into Our 40 Year-Old Mobile Home

December 7, 2017 By Elise New 8 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

Last January, we bought a 40-year-old mobile home for $1,000. It was a bit of a crazy whim. Gabe and I had talked - briefly - about buying a mobile home to put out on the farm so we could stop paying rent, stop driving from town to farm every day, and finally, after seven years, have a place that Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Family, Farm Life, Mobile Home Reno

On Renovation and Marriage

August 26, 2017 By Elise New 2 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

If there’s one thing this house renovation has taught me, it’s that after eight years, Gabe and I are still getting to know each other. I know that sounds ominous, but it’s really not - not in the way that one contractor made it sound when he rattled off the percentage of couples who end in divorce Keep Reading

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Our Mobile Home Remodel Update: How We Manage Meals and Construction

August 12, 2017 By Elise New 2 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

garrett sanding drywall

When we bought this 40 year old mobile home, and moved it out to the farm, I thought it would take us five months max to remodel and get moved into. But I grossly underestimated our home reno newbness, and here we are, going on month nine. In fact we quickly went from "we're going to gut the whole Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Eat Well, Mobile Home Reno

Our Mobile Home Project Update: Floors and Ceilings

July 1, 2017 By Elise New 34 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

mobile home ceilings

Several months ago, Gabe and I took a leap and bought a 40 year old mobile home to move out the farm, renovate, and live in for… at least several years. But - spoiler alert! - neither Gabe nor I know anything about renovation, so it’s been an extremely slow process since getting it moved out to the Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Family, Mobile Home Reno, Save Money

Moving Our New House And What We’ve Done With It So Far

February 11, 2017 By Elise New 14 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

Hi all! So a few weeks ago, I wrote and told you, on a whim, about our "new" 40 year old mobile home, and I have to tell you, I've been blown away by your positive response! So I'm going to try to keep you updated, even though a DIY project - especially of this magnitude - is way out of my depth. Keep Reading

Filed Under: DIY, Mobile Home Reno

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