This is the framing around the bed/lounge that I mentioned yesterday. I have to leave these uninstalled until after the hotwater system and plumbing are in, but you get the idea. These will be fixed to the walls and clad in pine panel like the rest of the furniture.
This is the start of the overhead cupboards. One end of this one is supported by the cupboard wall behind the shower/toilet and the other end supported by the rear cupboard. I had several trips between the saw and the bus today working out the angles to fix the cross members to the timber plate that is tek-screwed to the wall.
This pic shows how the cross members fix to the wall plate and some idea of the angle. I haven't done the rear overhead cupboard yet, just installed a cross member between the wall plates on either side of the bus. Most of the fitouts that you see around use lift-up cupboards. I'm going away from this in favour of more conventional side-hinged doors. The main reason is that top hinged doors almost always have to be supported by your head while you grovel around inside looking for stuff. I reckon it will be much easier to have double side hinged doors on each cupboard. That way you can swing them both open and have both hands free to extract whatever it is you're looking for. Now that I've got the angles etc worked out it will be full steam ahead. Should have all the overhead cupboards framed up by tomorrow? We'll see.
