Wardrobes and furniture on the bus – campers.
Bedroom:
The partition at the front of the bedroom will contain a desk, a bookshelf and several cupboards.
I started from bottom to top, I didn't really have a plan other than awareness, I want lockers downstairs, desks, bookshelves and everything, what could fit on this. I had a set of doors, which determined the size of each hole.
Back of the desk.
Desk. Because I'm working with reused material, I don't have the luxury of having many long pieces of wood, so I split the front bezels like this, so that they can be built from short pieces.
I saved the piano hinge to the desk from one of the doors with the words "School Bus", which covered the upper "windows" at the front and rear of the bus.
Here is the finished desk page, there are still two doors to be installed on the cabinet below.
All the carpentry on the bus will be finally painted, except for vertical slatted panels on the sides. Although I like the look of lacquered wood, the paint will unify the different colors and finishes of the recycled elements.
The cupboard in the bedroom is mostly complete. I'm not sure yet, what will go under the wardrobe, maybe a drawer.
Here is the finished wall.
This is a broom closet in the bulkhead at the front end of the bunk room. It only has 3 and a half inch deep, but there are many tall ones, narrow things (such as brooms and vacuum cleaner hoses), which will end up here.
I cut and re-glued another 30 inch, six-panel door, to get a 3-panel wide door 18 1/2 cala.
I built a shelf for a radio and cut out the windshield. I originally planned to use a home stereo with the inverter turned off. However, I found out, that the home stereo was not doing well, while the vehicle was in motion and some problems occurred after a while, which, as i suspect, were caused by a modified sine wave at the output of the inverter.
The radio had a heat sink on one side and I wanted to be sure, that the cooling is sufficient, so I drilled some holes in the top and bottom shelves.
The space next to the shower seemed to be the obvious place for a pantry. Because the dining room seat was sticking out a little in the aisle, I decided, that the pantry will have the shape of a trapezoid, to facilitate the passage and to accommodate some more stuff.
Then I built the front frames for the door.
Here is a ready-made cabinet with closed doors.
Another view
Ready bathroom wall and bathroom door. Without a wide-angle lens, it's hard to get a good shot of this area. I am very pleased with the way, what it was like to build this wall out of kitchen cupboard doors. Can't wait, to put on a uniform trouser coat.
Bathroom: |
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 The toilet is in place, it's tight, but with a shower cubicle right next door there is enough space.
Wall, on which the sink stands, it is also angled, to make the bathroom wider towards the door, than the rear. |
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 Here is a view of the bathroom from a slightly different angle, can be seen, that the front edge of the sink is also extended on the bracket, to make room under it.
The door under the sink opens right and left, and the back panel is held in place with an internal bungee cord. This is access to the water heater connections and pump wiring. |
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 Here is a picture taken while standing in the shower. The shelves on the left are actually part of the hall cupboard, there will be more bead panels on the left side of the sink, and above it a medicine cabinet. |