Interior cabinets for shorty skoolie

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

I'm pretty much sold on the shorty skoolie. Found a dealer with used ones and a good reputation.

Craigslist has provided me this http://raleigh.craigslist.org/zip/5879164813.html and I am franticly looking for help to take them off the walls and transport them home.

I'm thinking I may have just found the interior cabinetry for my bus and it's free.

Could I please have a moment of collective good wishes that I can collect this super cute kitchen and collection of cabinets.

 

[Matlock]

Looks like a winner all the way around. (I'm a Skoolie fan)

 

[ArtW]

Nice cabinets, hope they work well for you

 

[LoupGarou]

Looks good!

Contact an insurance company prior to the bus purchase. Getting some on a bus isn't impossible, just problematic.

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

Looks like a winner all the way around. (I'm a Skoolie fan)

I'm so torn! I want it all!

Bigger than a van but not huge. Big enough to stand up in but small enough to fit in most any legal parking space. Built on a reinforced truck chassis with a big old diesel. The shorty bus has a larger cousin that looks a bit more like a bread truck than a school bus that I also REALLY like but they are bigger and they are rare. I'm looking at Class A and maybe a B.

http://www.americanbussales.net/seven-different-school-bus-types/

They missed a whole front end style but ... meh. It's the bread truck looking Class B.

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

Nice cabinets, hope they work well for you

The lady who bought the house wanted them removed.

The daughter picked me out of the e-mail because she liked the idea of these going in a bus/tiny house. Makes it sound so much less like "I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!".

The retired, part time cabinet maker was a real nice guy and I'll likely be hitting him up for some help when I'm ready to hang these things back up in the bus.

The interior of my future bus is sitting in my shed. My kitchen is in the back room. Last night I slept in the bed I'll be installing. I have a bucket and I have a dream.  :shy:

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

Looks good!

Contact an insurance company prior to the bus purchase. Getting some on a bus isn't impossible, just problematic.

Yup. I've called several times and spoken to my agent. Max seating for private bus for personal use is 24 plus the driver and I have to paint it and take off some of the lights & stop signs etc.  Once I've ripped out the seats and installed cooking, sleeping, and maybe toilet I can register as RV. To get comprehensive on it and the value of the components I would need to provide photos and receipts for value. Otherwise once I have a bed, a bucket and can boil water my insurance goes down to about $500 a year additional on my policy. That's collision, not comprehensive, as a rider with my car and SB.

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

There were seven pieces total. We took everything except the kitchen sink. No. Really. Everything except the sink. Seems a shame too but that thing was a ton. Doudle, enameled cast irin sink. It made it to the front yard.

The window frame is bigger than I thought and is 5 total pieces. Full length with all the pieces intact it would be almost one side of the bus. I'm also considering framing the emergency door in the back. Cutting them down and using the hardware in other places seems doable also.

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

I want the island and the counter under the window frame.

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

I'm considering the deeper cabinet that held the sink as a platform for the single bed. Maybe along one side. Maybe across the back with a way to get through the emergency door. That cabinet is MUCH bigger than it looks.

 

[Txjaybird]

 Those cabinets are way cool!  Do you know when they were built?  I'm thinking maybe even in the 1930's.  Are they Pink....I like Pink.   You Done Good!

Jewellann

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

 Those cabinets are way cool!  Do you know when they were built?  I'm thinking maybe even in the 1930's.  Are they Pink....I like Pink.   You Done Good!

Jewellann

*I* say 1930''s. I've lived in several houses built in that era and these are dead on. The home owner says 1950's.  Who cares.

They are white with black hardware. I also have a lightweight all wood dresser that is white. That yellow counter top though may have to go.

I'm a little concerned about sanding them down honestly. Goggles, dust mask, long sleeve shirt duct taped to my gloves and strip, drop my clothes in the washer and take a shower as soon as I'm doing sanding. Why the $%#@ would someone put lead paint in a kitchen? (80% likely in any paint pre 1977).