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.

I am talking about all this in a past tense because since designing this and making this install I met my awesome girlfriend, and she loves the van and camping, after our two week trip around France from Calais down the West coast and to the Pyrenees. I decided to change the storage layout, for the better!! but that is for a later date, all will be revealed!!