Today we continued working on various projects relating to the galley cabinet and the wardrobe. First, I added an electrical box to the back of the cabinet where we have decided to add another outlet.
After adding that box I started working on the drawer facings. All the drawers will have a cover of 1/4″ Baltic birch with some cool trim. We have designed the cabinet so that all the drawers sit flush with the face of the cabinet. The drawers do not stick out beyond the cabinet at all.
While I was doing that, Sara was working on her dog food drawer. She has an idea to make a top that will sit in/on the large drawer on the end of the galley cabinet with holes in it for dog food bowls. She didn’t take any pictures, but I’m sure we will have more later.
Over lunch we probably spent nearly an hour searching for drawer pulls. Our goal is to have something as unobtrusive as possible so we are looking at some type of flush pull or a knob that pops out. There seem to be a fair number of options, though the pop out knobs all ship from Hong Kong/China/Korea and would arrive between February 7 and March 11! That’s not terribly helpful.
After those projects we started working on the walls of the wardrobe. The wardrobe will be a floor to ceiling closet on the driver’s side in front of the refrigerator. We expect to hang ski clothes and store our boots in there most of the time. It is 18″ deep, 75″ high, and will be around 33″ wide. This project has been somewhat daunting because, like the microwave cabinet, the back of the wardrobe walls have to fit the curve of the van. We only have one sheet of 3/4″ plywood and I don’t want to screw it up! Fortunately, having fit the microwave cabinet I was now more confident that we could get the curves right. We went slow in our trimming and I’m very happy with how it turned out.
We also worked on a practice counter top today. Sara cut a piece of scrap plywood to size and then measured out the hole for the sink. She previously made a cardboard template for the hole and it worked perfectly.
This stainless steel Dometic sink is very cool. The glass lid folds down so it sits nearly flush with counter. Inside is a folding faucet that you can rotate up when the lid is open. The one, not insignificant flaw in the product, is the documentation. Dometic is a Swedish company and apparently the Swedes don’t care about comprehensible instructions. There is a line drawing with tons of unhelpful measurements that are not explained at all. Fortunately, Sara did not even see the drawings before she made her template so she just made a nice, easy circle. The circle appears to work just fine and it is unlikely we will try to use anything in the ridiculous drawing.
