It’s Coming Together…

When we first went to Koops’ on Friday to do our weekly progress check, we were pretty disappointed.  The only progress we could see was that the nose had been insulated, the lids had been put on the bench/water & utility box, and the water tank and butane stand was finished.  Those are all good things, but it didn’t seem like much for a whole week of work.

But then, Justin took us to the back of the shop where we saw what they’d been doing.  I have a kitchen!  It has way more workspace than I had envisioned, and tons of storage, and lots of nice little touches.  We can’t wait to see it installed.

The curved nose, now insulated.  In the last photos, this was still silver.  We’re still deciding how to finish it, and are thinking we will try to turn it into some sort of headboard for the bed.

The utility box/bench now has a top.  Actually, three tops:  two small ones one either end over the utility boxes, and one large one in the middle over the water tanks.

The box around the hot water and water pressure tanks, from the top.  Butane tanks are belted in below.  

The view from the back.  You can see the belts on the butane tanks.

The box around the hot water tank and the pressure tank folds down, making a shelf in case we have to do anything requiring tools.

The bones of the kitchen.  To the left, the platform where the refrigerator will be mounted with storage underneath.  The sink goes in the middle, with a sponge drawer and a full drawer under the drain board.  The stove will be mounted on the platform to the right.

Closeup of the sponge drawer and the drawer under the drain board.

Getting an idea of how the kitchen will look! The sink is one with the sponge drawer open, and the stove on its platform to the right.  The stove has a stainless steel cover, and a fold down counter will go to the right of that, so I am going to have an incredible amount of workspace.  I’ll also have an incredible amount of storage, with the space under the refrigerator, as well as under the stove, as well as cabinets over the whole kitchen space.

The other exciting thing that happened on Friday was that our entire electrical solar system arrived at Arrow Freight…all this plus two 200ah lithium iron batteries.  We are closer and closer to getting on the road.