I needed an onsite office to manage a project of this size.  So I asked for and received permission to set up a temporary office in one of the unsold units.  But every time I'd get set up, the unit would sell, and I'd have to relocate.

So I purchased this trailer - only it didn't look like this when I bought it. It was white with bright blue trim.  The joke of the jobsite, it was soon nicknamed "the burrito hut", because they said it looked like I should be selling burritos from it! 

When I parked it by one of the townhome units, I was asked to move it.  So I had to make it look like it "belonged" - I had my painters paint it to match the surrounding buildings.  I parked it near the dumpster, where (I hoped) no one would ask me to move it!

But it was still just a trailer in a parking lot.  I wanted it to look attractive, and "permanent" - so that it would be accepted without question.  I built a raised deck, with a fence to screen the dumpster off.  I built skirting to cover the wheels, and a stylish garden trellis. 

Some attractive potted plants & palms completed the makeover.


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Inside, I gutted it.  Then I designed a cabinet layout, and had custom cabinets built to my specifications.  I painted them "plum" before installlng them - and received no end of ridicule for that choice.  The carpet was blue, and no one thought it would look good.  I had the walls painted a shade of mauve that we were using on the townhome units, with white trim.

Once the cabinets were completed and installed, it looked great, inside and out.  Nobody made fun of it,  no one asked me to move it. In fact, many buyers came in, thinking it was the sales office!

For nearly a year I managed the entire project from this small but efficient mobile office.  It would have been my home base for another year, had I built another 26 units in the adjacent lot, as was originally planned.  Sadly, the crash of the real estate market, and the whole economy, killed that plan, so  the trailer moved out with me the day I finished.