Building Cabinets
To all of you who have been checking the blog and asking me to update it, I'M SORRY! We have just been flying through things here, super busy. I'll try to show all of the progress from the last 10 days or so in the next post or two.
But first...
But first...
I had a birthday and got the sweetest cake from my parents! I would have never guessed for my 27th birthday I'd be celebrating with a bus themed ice cream cake! The Best!
I had stopped updating the blog the day before Phil returned from Quebec because I wanted to keep these amazing overhead storage cabinets a secret. I was so proud of myself, I wanted to see his reaction myself. I've been doing so many things that surprise me, almost everything is being considered the best thing I've done so far.
We've decided to only put overhead cabinets on one side of the kitchen to help makes things feel more open in the main living area of the bus. They will be over the sink and act as our bathroom cabinets. We think with the lower kitchen cabinets we have planned we will have enough space for pots, pans, plates, etc, to not need extra overhead storage for that.
We looked a lot at store bought cabinets for the kitchen, dreaming of an IKEA makeover for the bus, but in the end, the amount of money needed for cabinets was just not at our disposal. Phil, having built cabinets for work in the past, was more fussy on what materials should be used and how they should be built. Normally I'm the fussy one, but for this he had a more professional vision then myself, so while he was still away, I hurried to build cabinet frames in hopes he would see them and adjust his feelings a little on a more DIY look. Luckily for me, he did just that, and was happy to put our own low-budget, but love-filled, spin on things. I simply used 2x2s and 2x4s to create a really sturdy frame and hopefully enough strength to handle to bumpy logging roads this bus is destined for.
We looked a lot at store bought cabinets for the kitchen, dreaming of an IKEA makeover for the bus, but in the end, the amount of money needed for cabinets was just not at our disposal. Phil, having built cabinets for work in the past, was more fussy on what materials should be used and how they should be built. Normally I'm the fussy one, but for this he had a more professional vision then myself, so while he was still away, I hurried to build cabinet frames in hopes he would see them and adjust his feelings a little on a more DIY look. Luckily for me, he did just that, and was happy to put our own low-budget, but love-filled, spin on things. I simply used 2x2s and 2x4s to create a really sturdy frame and hopefully enough strength to handle to bumpy logging roads this bus is destined for.
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