Soft Furnishings!

Being totally crap with mechanics and general ‘car stuff’ I have given myself the role of being in charge of soft furnishings. Incidentally I will also be in charge of cooking, eating, entertainment, cleaning, washing, chrome polishing and making friends – rather gender stereotypes I know…but there you go…

And so on to curtains. Firstly, what fabric? As Totty is Japanese I decided to go with Japanese material and so trotted off to ‘Fabric Town’ in Nippori. This place is amazing and has lots of shops selling all sorts of material…some shops only exclusively deal with leather, or buttons, or fur, or silks etc. So it was that I eventually decided on this fabric and bought 8 metres of the stuff…1,000 yen a metre (about £5.00 a metre).

Out came the trusted old sewing machine and off we went. I’ve lined them in a thermal lining; in hindsight I think I should have lined them in blackout material….the ‘getting up with the sun doing yoga’ plan got the better of me!

Having spent forever trying to purchase online suitable low profile curtain rails for camper vans, I ended up getting some in Tokyu Hands – that shop truly sells everything! Totty already had screws in her where a previous owner also had curtains so it was really easy to mount the new ones.

The curtains by the driver and passenger seat are the next challenge as there’s nowhere to attach the rail to….will solve that one later on. Planning to recycle some fabric already lined with black out material that I have in our flat for a ‘feature wall’ 😉 So while my body is doing yoga at 4am my head can continue to sleep off a hangover in relative darkness!?