Built in ironing board?
I quite like the look of this and am thinking about adding it to the kitchen area. It’s a slide out ironing board the retract back into a drawer. At £65 it is not bad value either?
Archive for February, 2010
Plans and Layout for The Bus
I have just dug my cad package out and did some screen grabs of the layouts. This one shows the dimensions of the internals of the bus (click on the image to see full size) The grey area at the bottom right is the drivers area. This is the layout as it is now (no [...]
Planning next steps
Due to the way the banks work I may not have any money till Tuesday, this means Wednesday before any wood can be delivered. So time to plan next steps to keep me going till then. I just had a wander up to the Bus and had a look at the jobs that still need [...]
Shower Room progress
The first job today was to replace this support. It was going to be for the kitchen work surface but now it makes more sense to extend it all the way to the ceiling and reline the other side.
Bed area fully roughed out
I got an early start this morning and finished the bed area. I have also placed a temporary base on the bed to allow me to store stuff on top and underneath. This has de cluttered the rest of the Bus nicely and given me a good place to put my tools and parts awaiting [...]
Snowing AGAIN!!!!
I cannot remember a year when we had this long a period of snow/sleet/cold weather. My memory of 1979 doesn’t seem this bad?
Day Off
Work has picked up today, I am short on screws, funds are low, I am aching all over and it is raining. I have decided to take today off and make a start again tomorrow. It’s been nice just to relax for a bit today to be honest and the next 4 days will be [...]
Found original pictures of my Bus
Thanks to Richard at the MHF for letting me know who my bus was originally in service I have managed to find picture of it as it used to look. http://gonortheastbusphotos.fotopic.net/p40435725.html And in use here http://gonortheastbusphotos.fotopic.net/p25647827.html And this one here shows what the back looked like before the gash rear door was added (and which [...]
Foot of bed now sheeted in and bed finished
I finished sheeting the base of the bed.
Photos of progress so far
It’s not pretty but here is the progress so far.