Weekend kitchen work

We worked on our beautiful kitchen this weekend!


We don’t have much room to work with so we decided we will not be putting in an oven since it will take away all counter space.  So we decided to order a 24” sink cabinet and a 30” drawer cabinet from Ikea.  We were lucky that we didn’t even have to go to the store to place the order.  Everything was done online and it was delivered this past Wednesday!! So of course we knew that was going to be our weekend project!

We started out by building a box around the wheel hump so that we have something to set cabinets on.




Then we had to measure 20 times to figure out how much of the cabinets to cut off to mount on the box.  That was tricky but we did it!




We then had to reinforce everything from the inside and outside to make sure it was not going to move at all while driving down the road.  Then I was able to install the drawers and shelves!


I didn’t want a standard RV sink so I went with a BIG one!! I LOVE it!!

It even come with a cutting board on top.



And check out that countertop!!


I think the next project will be to secure the fridge which is going right next to the sink! We haven’t done any plumbing yet so we can’t insulate and finish the walls yet.  Those will stay open until we have everything framed out and ready to run plumbing and electrical!

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