Sunday 23 October 2011

Install Number One

This was my first idea for an install in my van, I basically wanted to be able to carry surfboards kites and kite boards around yet sleep in the van comfortably. I was not sure how often I would be going away camping, I thought I would be more likely to be going away on surf trips and roughing it for a bit, but as we all know, when you go away, you think....I could do with somewhere to put this.....Or I need one of these...etc.


So I came up with the idea of boxing off one section of the van, after installing the rock n roll bed, this is what Christian (my furniture making friend) and I came up with, this initially filled the brief for me. As you can see from the pictures, the install is plain marine ply, but to add to this I bought some formica (which is basically a colored veneer). I had a layer of white on the inside and black on the outside. its a shame that i dont have any pictures of what the formica looked like, but I can tell you it looked smart and had some nice lines to it.







Thursday 6 October 2011

Battery Cover

A very quick post here! I hated getting in my van and seeing the leisure battery underneath my seat, so i used some left over carpet I had lying around and a piece of hardboard to make a quick fix cover.


I then slotted this in between the battery and the seat base so it looks like this.


When I get round to it i would like to make a top cover like Richard from http://stone174.blogspot.com/
as can be seen Here.

In other news my partner and I now have a new addition to our family; His name is Bodhi (yes after the character from the awesome film Point Break!!), he is a Schnoodle ( a cross between a Poodle and a Schnauzer)


Rest assured there will be lots of pictures of him out and about in the van!!

Cheers

Tom