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It's not much but it was a pain in the butt. I got all 5 latches to work properly so the doors and drawers close where they're supposed to. It looks pretty good but I'll probably adjust the drawers so the gaps are better eventually. It's low priority right now. And I made up this trim...

I did the whole process over again to make a second drawer face. It's really time-consuming work. Especially because the planer blades are getting dull. So, once I got two flat boards 3/4" thick, I had to cut them to the right size. It sounds straightforward right? But there were no straight...

A few small, somewhat unrelated projects here. I put some polyurethane onto the "table leg" if you wanna call it that. I sanded through the remnants of the bark first, so the color is more uniform. It's reinstalled now and no one's ever going to notice it. But. Whatev. I cut out this weird...

It's SO much work. But the flip side is for someone who's setup for that work with jigs and fixtures and such, it's actually probably pretty easy. It's not worth it to create the tooling to make 3 cabinet doors. But if that's all you're doing it probably gets easier to the point of being almost...

Honestly, if you ever get that thought creeping in "Well, I could just build that cabinet myself..." Just ignore it. You guys, the @$#&ING DOORS. I just spent 2 nearly-full days making doors. They're like 95% but I need to just appreciate it for a minute first. And share. Remaining work is to...

I also applied some sound deadener to the floor. Note: 36 sq. ft. is WAY more than enough to do the floor of the cockpit. I used a little less than half the amount I ordered. I used Siless 80 mil butyl. I don't think I've applied this stuff to a car before, but it was pretty easy. It was only...

We kept getting the tweed wet, so I polished some stainless and made a backsplash. So the last major component, the shower, is half done. This has certainly been the more difficult half. It's a learning experience. And it was partially outsourced, in a sense. Which has been part of the learning...

I've taken care of a crap-ton more little projects than just this, but here's what I have pictures of right now. I made this little door: It goes here: I did actually complete the install with hinges and whatnot. I hate how it came out, so it'll ultimately get burnt in a bonfire. But for...

I haven't ever done an undermount sink before. Have you? Too late now, I guess. It was a little nerve-wracking because in an undermount configuration you can't hide the cut! So, it's gotta be perfect. Good thing we have already established that I am. We had leftover counter from the passenger's...

Well, it's not finished yet, but I wanted to give you guys an update. We make dirty dishes obviously. And dirty hands. And we like to brush our teeth over a sink. You get the point - we need a place for a sink. As such, I've been chipping away at making a sink base cabinet. It's not terribly...

Meanwhile the shower was being built, I cut in some of the dome lights. The shower is going to take a while, and it's this whole big thing, but it's kind of unique, I think you guys will love it. The rest of the lights will have to wait till the ceiling is finished, otherwise I'll have to remove...

I had a fair bit of downtime this week, so no major progress, although I am 100% caught up on work now. You'll find out what that means at the end. So. You already saw the ceiling in place before, remember? Scroll back. Or don't, because it looks better now anyways. I took it all out to make...

I've just been doing a few various small jobs; tying up loose ends here and there. Or, in some cases not. But at least making progress. In some cases not. I guess I don't know how to classify what the ffff I've been doing. Let's start from some random spot in the middle, since none of it...

Just a small one. Yesterday our custom-size mattress arrived from Custom Mattress Factory (not affiliated, just a satisfied customer), so we obviously tossed it up in place and laid on it immediately. So comfy! It's 7" of memory foam and gives us about 1" of clearance to the ceiling in the up...

The bench was looking decent, but I had to do better, obviously. It's really just paint doing the bulk of the work in that regard. I painted the louver and the wall/bench support piece. I also put some apple wood structure to the storage area floor piece, because the 1/4" underlayment is flimsy...

So the next thing I tackled when I got some time was to actually bolt the bench in place. The clamps were killing the vibe for me. This meant removing the whole bed wing/cubby piece to cut some notches. The back of the bench has some hardwood corner blocks, which get through-bolted to the bed...

Sorry for the hiatus, had a busy week. But now we're back with the updates until you're up-to-date. So, anyway. The up and down part of the mattress, let's call it the main mattress, isn't nearly big enough for me. I'm a long boy. So our plan has always been to make wings for the bed, that will...

Alright so a lot of people ask where will we store stuff in the van? We didn't overlook this. It's a compromise, like everything, of course. But, since I can't stand up under the bed lift anyways, we figured why not sacrifice even more height? So, I set to work making a trunk. It makes the space...

You know the recessed panel area thingymajigger on the top of the sliding door? There's probably an optional factory trim piece for that area, I'm guessing. But we don't have it. It's probably on the passenger version? Ours is a cargo. I don't know. I don't really care, either. We made our own...

"But how do you sleep in that thing??" How many times we've heard that one. Truth told, at the moment, we don't. We have, you know, just on the floor with a sleeping pad. It's less than ideal, but we're so excited to live in it that we just dork out and do it anyways. But right now, there's...