For those of you who have never made a piece of furniture, one of the most satisfying feelings that comes along with such a thing is filling a space where once there was nothing, with a surface to put your sh*t on.
So that's the framing for the cabinets/countertop. The taller studs closer to the camera will be a closet and the shorter studs will be lower storage with a counter on top for our stove and sink. I like to "draw" in full scale with blue painter's tape, so you can see some of those sketches still lingering on the floor, outlining the space the seat/bed will occupy.
Not long after this picture was taken, there was a felt ceiling mishap. A simple and classy solution to the issue of making a headliner (one of the toughest/most annoying/rarely finished properly jobs there is in automotive interiors) was something Michelle actually came up with. Nice work, sweetie, you did it. We're gluing industrial felt to our fiberglass roof. Easy. The quality of industrial felt we ordered, however, proved to be too...economical, and I was worried about shedding so new felt is on the way. A lot of other things depend on that ceiling getting done, so until then: a lesson in painting the doors of your car.
Prep work: remove the window, lightly sand the area to be painted, cover up for the overspray.
Prime and paint a sickening message to later be covered up foreverz to your loved one. This message reads T (heart) M. Ignore my misshapen heart. Also ignore our sappiness. There's more of that coming on this trip, so if you don't like it, you can lump it, pal.
Paint glossy black! The middle area will be covered up by recycled denim insulation and a custom-fit wooden door panel. Back to work!
P.S. All I see in my dreams is a never-ending color field of late '90s hunter green. (Occasionally broken up by some khaki pin-striping, of course.)
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