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It must have been love at first sight… I’d like to describe it that way, but the reality is I hadn’t seen her yet. Not really. I’d only found a listing at the bottom of a list of used RVs at a dealership 200 miles away, close to the TX border. A 1995 Chevy Seven Seas Cobra, 36,000ish miles. I’d been looking for months, and something in my heart told me this was the one. This was my transformation project.

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    After trading some emails with a salesman and putting down a $1000 non-refundable deposit, I roped a friend into driving me down to pick up the old girl

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    I’d already named her Janeway after the leading lady Star Trek captain.

    Janeway was definitely showing her age

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    The décor looked like something out of the ’80s

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    Layers of dust coated the carpet. There were spots with water damage and mold. Thankfully, the appliances worked, and though I was later to find out the A/C in the cab was out, the housing unit A/C was fine and the engine ran well.

    The overcab needed the most work

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    With leaks on both sides, much of the wood and flooring needed to be ripped away and replaced.

    And so work began with a little help

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    I was fostering two kittens at the time

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

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    They would sit in the window watching me walk back and forth from the house to the RV all day and sometimes all night as I worked.

    I started by taking everything off and out

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    Down came the curtains, up came the carpet, and off came the cabinet doors!

    Although I bought new hardware and fabrics, I saved as much as I could, painting the cabinetry

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    … and even the counters!

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    The walls also got a coat of oil-based paint over the peeling, stubborn wallpaper.

    It was a lot of work… taping, ripping, painting…

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    …even staying up all night one night to finish the floors! But it was a labor of love

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    And it was worth it

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

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    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

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    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    The kittens even got their own play area in the overcab

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    And their own RV cat tree

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    Even better, these two babies now have a home!

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    They are no longer foster kittens. They are my furever kittens!

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

    Forever at home with me in my sorta new RV

    I Bought An Old 1995 RV, And Here's How I Transformed It Into A Beautiful Home For Me And Two Kittens That I Recently Adopted (21 Pics)

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