Post by JunkintheTrunk on Nov 19, 2023 10:35:52 GMT -8
Good afternoon All -
Yesterday we put our newly built walls in place on the trailer frame. Now we are turning our attention to the cabinet build. All of the cabinets in our trailer were rotted, delaminating, or ruined, so we are starting completely from scratch. Maybe it is also important to say that we are not trying to do a restoration but more of a complete rebuild with a vintage feel.
I know it is important to have lots of stabilizing cabinets, so our plans include overhead cabinets at the front and rear, floor-to-ceiling cabinets on the entry door wall, and two floor-to-ceiling cabinets on the curb side wall on either end of the sink base cabinet.
What I would like advice on is the entry wall cabinet layout. I would like to do the following: as you enter the camper door and turn towards the back of the trailer, I would like the first 14 inches to be a counter height cabinet for shoe storage and then wall mount a TV above that. The next 51" would be two separate floor-to-ceiling cabinets (one for the fridge and one for a clothes armoire). Then the bed would be the final portion of the camper. As you enter the camper door and turn towards the front, we will build a wooden couch with storage underneath that runs the whole width of the trailer instead of putting the dinette back. I don't think this will impact the camper at all, as there will actually be more stability from the couch than the previous dinette. I added a rough sketch below... please don't judge my drawing abilities. Haha!
Will not having a floor-to-ceiling cabinet for those first 14 inches be a problem? I'm hoping that with all the other floor-to-ceiling cabinets we will have, that small space won't make a difference. But I trust all of your opinions more than my own, so please let me know if I am not thinking about this correctly.
IMG_3149 by Andrea Kimmell, on Flickr
Yesterday we put our newly built walls in place on the trailer frame. Now we are turning our attention to the cabinet build. All of the cabinets in our trailer were rotted, delaminating, or ruined, so we are starting completely from scratch. Maybe it is also important to say that we are not trying to do a restoration but more of a complete rebuild with a vintage feel.
I know it is important to have lots of stabilizing cabinets, so our plans include overhead cabinets at the front and rear, floor-to-ceiling cabinets on the entry door wall, and two floor-to-ceiling cabinets on the curb side wall on either end of the sink base cabinet.
What I would like advice on is the entry wall cabinet layout. I would like to do the following: as you enter the camper door and turn towards the back of the trailer, I would like the first 14 inches to be a counter height cabinet for shoe storage and then wall mount a TV above that. The next 51" would be two separate floor-to-ceiling cabinets (one for the fridge and one for a clothes armoire). Then the bed would be the final portion of the camper. As you enter the camper door and turn towards the front, we will build a wooden couch with storage underneath that runs the whole width of the trailer instead of putting the dinette back. I don't think this will impact the camper at all, as there will actually be more stability from the couch than the previous dinette. I added a rough sketch below... please don't judge my drawing abilities. Haha!
Will not having a floor-to-ceiling cabinet for those first 14 inches be a problem? I'm hoping that with all the other floor-to-ceiling cabinets we will have, that small space won't make a difference. But I trust all of your opinions more than my own, so please let me know if I am not thinking about this correctly.
IMG_3149 by Andrea Kimmell, on Flickr
