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Leslie

The Banquette

This current mod allows us to seat 4 small people who are very good friends for dinner; it is snug. As an added bonus we get some very nice storage underneath. Since this is based on Ikea cabinets, there are drawers that will fit. This was important because the gauchos (couches) had 4 bins for underneath storage that we used. We get a decent bed for 1 or 2 people and a great place to work and eat. You can tell from the drawing that we shaped the backs of the cabinets to fit the trailer, but that was very simple; we just cut diagonal edges. We weren’t worried about how it looked because it will be topped with a sheet of very nice birch veneer plywood.

Step 6: Lets install this puppy, but first the Cabinets!

There was a hiatus between dry fitting, hole cutting and the actual installation of the water heater. There was some cabinet work that needed doing before we could complete the heater installation. Our Master Plan involved ripping out all the old base and tall cabinets and replacing them with Ikea cabinets. The benefits included zippy [...]

Step 5: Dry fit the mutant heater and cut the new hole (gulp)

Each of these sets of steps occurred over a weekend. So, each Saturday morning Chris and I sat at the island in our kitchen and planned the weekend’s work. The “Cut the Hole in Trailer” Saturday morning mission brief went something like this… Leslie “We need to cut the hole in the trailer for the [...]