Putting it Together VI

Hi Everyone,
My last post was about four months ago in February.  I've done a few things on the weekends since then but nothing major so I didn't think it was worth blogging about.  It's tough to work on this project weekdays since it takes so dang long to drag all the tools out and then clean up afterwards making it easier to just skip it until some other time.  Well the "other time" happened this past weekend/week.  I've spent 4-1/2 days out in the garage now and here's what I have to show for all the effort......keep in mind that I am very slow and meticulous about this stuff.

The kitchen area is now pretty much finished.  The sink and stove are hooked up and working.  The cupboard drawers and doors are installed.  The microwave area above the stove is ready and operational. That's an electric heater mounted below the two drawers.  The open space to the left of the kitchen area is where the fridge goes and below that is the space for the gas heater.

In the back of the camper I finished mounting the bin rack....it's on the left hand side of the picture. We use blue plastic bins for our clothes (that's one in the picture).  They're easy to haul into the house when packing and then you chuck them onto the rack in the camper. The same rack was used in our ancient motor home and we loved it, especially with handling the kids clothes.  To the left of the bin rack (but not shown in the picture) is the closet which is also finished now.



Above the dinette is where I spent a ton of time these past few days building out the overhead cabinets.  As you can see the center area is also where the window AC unit goes.  The doors aren't attached yet, so in the picture all you see is the face frame where the doors will be hung.

The pictures never quite capture what's going on so maybe I'll post a video one of these times.

Overall, a lot of progress has been made but there is still lots to do.  I'll probably schedule another extended working weekend sometime before fall.  Till then, keep cool.

Chris

Putting it Together V

People have been asking me why I haven't been updating my camper blog....well, the answer is pretty simple, I haven't been working on the camper.....that is, not until this past weekend.  So generally life is busy and once in a while I have time to keep this project moving forward.  This past weekend the progress was pretty small.  I started building out the kitchen cabinet. I admit that the cabinet is tiny, but sometimes smallness creates it's own difficulties in that you need to make sure to include everything you want without stuff bumping into one another.  So take a look at the next couple of photos where you'll see the layout of the counter top and the beginnings of the cabinet underneath.

As you can see, the sink and single burner stove (that's the stainless piece on the left) take up almost all of the counter space. Geriann was sure that she wanted the double sink rather than a single, so it does look awfully crowded.  However, I can make a custom cutting board to fit over the right hand sink so that most of the time it will double as counter space and only need to be a sink when doing the dishes. The same sort of thing is going on with the stove.  It has a flip up lid that is flush with the counter top when closed, so that means most of the time it can be counter space, since we really hardly ever use the stove.

The picture above is the face frame for the cabinet which will have two drawers on the left and a built in electric heater underneath those and then a couple of cupboard doors to the right.  The drawers, doors and heater aren't in the picture, so you'll have to use your imagination to picture where those go.The white box like thing in the background is the gas water heater. 

Yep, that's me with a tape measure....mostly thinking and pondering what the heck to do next....or....how in the blazes am I going to fix that last goof up.

That's all I've got for now, so till next time, stay warm and cozy....spring's on it's way.