Hi folks,
This weeks's update on the trailer build: Bed and Kitchen!
I found a website from a carpenter talking about "over-engineering" and "over-building" projects, and offered his plans for a lightweight but sturdy platform bed (
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-easy-low-waste-platform-bed/). I liked his design, but personally felt it was a biit "under-built," but I did take some of the design features and built something a bit in-between his design and mine, and felt I was able to shed a few pounds off the weight:
Add the mattress on top, and we're sleeping! I did make some modifications, removing the spacers on the driver's side and shifting the bed over, allowing for storage of a folding table on the passenger side, while still having space on the driver's side for my planned build of small storage cubbies for glasses, cell phone, tablets, and the like:
Next was the kitchen build. I've been following and posting in another thread on the "Grand Plan Lightest" kitchen build (
http://www.cheaprvliving.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=29865&highlight=lightest), and again have been fine tuning my design and, with the approval of and suggestions by my wife (after all, SHE has to be happy with it too, or else all this is for naught), have started the framing:
This part is going very slowly, because, being a cargo trailer, nothing is plumb or square, and the angles of the vee nose are tricky. It may not show up in the photo, but the framing is attached ONLY to the walls, and not the floor, and there is a miniscule gap on the outside edge of the frame. This, hopefully, will allow for the flexing of the trailer as it goes down the road.
I also have made a hole in the framing on the vee so that wiring can feed down to the outlet and converter box later.
Next weekend I hope to finish the main part of the kitchen framing and countertop. Let me know thoughts and opinions, especially suggestions for improvement, now before I get too far into this thing!
