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#1 2024-12-19 22:47:59

Isaac_Blanc
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From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2024-09-05
Posts: 30

Kitchen cabinet

A few months back, we built this kitchen cabinet for our Peugeot Expert Mk3. The timber was about £20 from Bristol Wood Recycling Project and the build took us a few days. It features a cupboard for our 25L water tank and four shelves behind sliding doors. There are LED strips inside the cabinet. Eventually, we will drop a submersible pump into the water tank and have a tap on top of the kitchen counter. Possibly also a sink... one day. Since the build, I have spent about a week living in the van. The unit is sturdy and the doors slide nicely. My only regret is not fitting a back panel for the top shelves. In their current form, things can fall off the back of the shelves and into a hard-to-reach area above the wheel arch.

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We cut the sheet material with a table saw. Used a band saw for the angles. Hand router for the sliding door slots, which we then lubricated with beeswax supplied by a friendly beekeeper. Everything assembled by pocket hole. We were in a rush that day, so this is the only photo I have; it shows us routing the sliding door slots.

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First trial assembly the next day...

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There was quite a lot of adjusting to make it fit snug with the van. Typical French design; nothing is straight, square or even symmetrical. Then we screwed the cabinet to the floor and wall frame inside of the van. In the picture below, don't mention the gap!

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At the other end of the kitchen cabinet, this gap is more intentional. I think we will fit some storage netting onto the far-end of the cabinet. Then it will be accessible when you open the back doors.

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Finally, here is the cabinet inside of the (mostly) finished van.

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More similarly bodged reports to come detailing how we did the panelling (recycled palletwood) and the bed (cantilevered drawer runners).

Last edited by Isaac_Blanc (2024-12-19 22:56:57)


2018 Peugeot Expert Mk3 1.6L BlueHDi 115 hp

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