The partition at the front of the bedroom will contain a desk, closest, bookshelf, and several cupboards. |  |
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I started from the bottom up, I didn't really have a plan other than knowing I wanted cupboards on the bottom, the desk, a bookshelf, and whatever might fit above that. I did have a set of doors that determined the size for each opening. |  | |
The back of the desk. |  | |
The desk. Since I'm working with re-used material I don't have the luxury of having a lot of long pieces of wood so I split up the face frames such that they could be built from short bits. |  | One of the great things about working with re-used and recycled materials is that the limitations placed on you by the materials often leads to details like the horizontal molding seen here. |
I salvaged the piano hinge for the desk from one of the "School Bus" sign doors that covered the upper "windows" on the front and back of the bus. |  | |
Here's the finished desk side, there are still two doors to install on the cupboard below. |  | |
Here is the beginning of the closest. All of the woodwork in the bus will ultimately be painted with the exception of the vertical bead-board paneling on the sides. While I like the look of varnished wood, paint will work to unify the different colors and finishes of of the recycled pieces. |  | |
The bedroom cabinetry mostly complete. I'm not sure what will go under the closet yet, perhaps a drawer. |  | You can see I carried the molding feature across to the closet side, I think it will look nice painted a complimentary color. |

Here's the completed wall. |
Bunk room:
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This is the broom closet in the partition at the forward end of the bunk room. It's only 3 1/2" deep but there are a lot of tall skinny things (like brooms and the wand for the vacuum) that will go in here.
There will be two mini-van seats in front of this wall so the door is split, the bottom half will only open when the backs of the seats are folded flat. |  | |
I sliced up and re-glued another 30" six paneled door to make an 18 1/2" wide 3-paneled door.
The cheap doweling jig I bought did a terrible job of lining up the slices so I had to plane the door some. |  | |
Front:
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I built a shelf for the radio and trimmed out the front window. I had originally planned to use a household type stereo powered off of the inverter. However, I found that the household stereo did not do well while the vehicle was in motion and after a while developed some problems that I suspect were due to the modified-sine wave output of the inverter. |  | |
The radio had a heat sink along one side and I wanted to be sure there was sufficient cooling so I drilled a bunch of holes in the top and bottom shelves. |  | |
Pantry:
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The space next to the shower seemed an obvious place for the pantry. Since the dinette seat jutted out into the aisle a little I decided to make the pantry a trapezoidal shape to smooth the transition and so it could hold just a little more stuff.
Step one was to make the shelves. |  | I'm running a little low on wide boards right now so I built the shelves out of narrow scraps. This also made the construction a little easier as I was making one rectangle and one triangle per shelf.
I hope that Saturday's trip to the dump will bring some new material. |
Next I built the face frames for the doors. |  | |
Here's the completed cabinet with the doors in place. |  | |
Another view |  | |
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