A Spectacular Double Wide Manufactured Home Makeover

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Teresa is the publisher of the blog Magazine Your Home and a fairly new mobile home owner from Alabama. She has been busy doing a spectacular double wide manufactured home makeover with her knowledge and talent of crafting, updating and decorating. Her remodels, updates and decorating talents will surely inspire you. Magazine Your Home is …

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Flooring Options for Mobile Homes

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The teenage flooring guy at Home Depot once told me I could never use tile in a manufactured home because they ‘couldn’t handle the weight.’ I restrained from going into a 5-minute speech about the various flooring options for mobile homes and why he was so very wrong. I could’ve pulled up images and spreadsheets …

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How to Paint Wood Paneling in Mobile Homes

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Apartment Therapy, one of the most popular home decorating blogs in America, boldly proclaims that wood paneling is cool again. We hate to brag but we’ve been dealing with wood paneling in mobile homes for decades so we’re way ahead of the game! One of the biggest complaints from manufactured homeowners is our limited wall …

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Beginner’s Guide to Small Space Decorating

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Beginner’s Guide to Small-Space Decorating Living in a smaller mobile home has many great advantages. Down-sizing and living a more focused lifestyle is a worthy life venture that many of us have gladly chosen. Lower costs for building, operating, and upkeep are the best reasons to chose smaller mobile homes. Living in a small mobile home has disadvantages too – small homes …

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How to Paint Vinyl Walls in a Mobile Home (and Remove the Battens)

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Painting vinyl walls in a mobile home is time-consuming and frustrating because of the shiny surface and those blasted battens covering the seams. Older mobile homes usually have faux wood paneling, so they aren’t as frustrating to paint. But manufactured homes built after the early eighties tend to have walls made from panels of pressed gypsum …

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